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APPLIED SURFACE SCIENCE
Volume 257, Issue 10, Pages 4552-4558Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.apsusc.2010.11.064
Keywords
Nanotopography; Osteoblast; Cell attachment; Cell spreading; Titania nanopillars; Titanium surfaces; Through-mask anodization
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- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/F056745/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/F056745/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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It is well established that nanosized surface topography significantly affects cell response at a biomaterial surface. Here we used a through-mask anodization technique to fabricate well-defined titania nanopillars with tunable feature sizes from 15 to 100nm on bulk titanium (Ti) substrates and studied their effects on initial attachment and spreading of osteoblast-like cells (MG63). An increase of titania pillar height from 15 to 100nm resulted in reduced spreading of MG63 osteoblast-like cells and the higher pillar structures also gave rise to heavily elongated cells. By using a FIB/SEM dual beam microscope the interface between MG63 cells and nanopatterned Ti surfaces could be studied in more detail. It was found that the higher pillar structures prevented the cells to conform to the surface topography leaving voids in between the cells and the substrates. The results found in this study agree with previous studies that cells response better to surfaces with smaller (<20 nm) features. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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