Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL MACROMOLECULES
Volume 134, Issue -, Pages 557-564Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2019.05.004
Keywords
Eggshell waste; Hydroxyapatite; Chitosan composite; Cell cytotoxicity
Funding
- Thammasat University Research Fund under the TU Research Scholar [2/52/2561]
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Hydroxyapatite was successfully synthesized using eggshell waste as a raw material. Eggshell waste and orthophosphoric acid were co-precipitated for 2 hat an ambient temperature. The pH of the solution was adjusted to 10 using ammonium hydroxide. Then, 10-30 wt% of hydroxyapatite was loaded into the chitosan film. Scanning electron microscopy and energy dispersive analyses confirmed the morphological properties and dispersion. A thermogravimetric analysis showed a significant enhancement in the thermal stability of the composite. The existence of hydroxyapatite resulted in a higher thermal stability. Furthermore, atomic force microscopy was used to investigate the roughness of the surface. With the addition of hydroxyapatite, the roughness significantly increased. The swelling behavior of the composite was observed in phosphate buffer saline solution. The hydroxyapatite offered the inferiority on the swelling behavior. A preliminary investigation on the in vitro behavior of Saos-2 was also performed. The composite presented good cytotoxicity, and thus, excellent properties as a tissue engineering material. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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