Journal
BIOMATERIALS
Volume 22, Issue 1, Pages 53-58Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(00)00162-9
Keywords
hydroxyapatite; coating; alternate soaking process; poly(acrylic acid); poly(acryl amide); poly(ethylene) film
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Previously, we developed a novel alternate soaking process and clarified that bone-like apatite was formed on/in organic polymer hydrogel matrices using this process. The present study focused on the apatite coating on hydrophilic polymer grafted poly(ethylene) (PE) films with various grafting densities and commonly used hydrophilic polymers, poly(acryl amide) (PAAm) and poly(acrylic acid) (PAAc) were employed. From X-ray diffraction analysis, hydroxyapatite was coated on PAAm- or PAAc- grafted PE films. The amount of apatite coated on PAAm-grafted PE (PAAm-g-PE) films increased with an increase in the reaction cycles and the grafting density of PAAm. Similar to PAAm-g-PE, the amount of apatite coated on PAAc-grafted PE (PAAc-g-PE) films increased linearly with an increase in the grafting density of the PAAc up to around 30 mug/cm(2). While, no significant increase in the apatite coating on the PAAc-g-PE films was observed even after 50 reaction cycles when the grafting densities of PAAc were over 30 mug/cm(2). Apatite coating was not observed on original PE films. Scanning electron microscopic images reveal that the aggregation of apatite crystals on all PAAm-g-PE films and PAAc-g-PE films with grafting density from 10 to 30 mug/cm(2). On the other hand, a dense apatite layer with some cracks was coated when the grafting density of the PAAc chains was over 30 mug/cm(2). These results indicated that it was possible to coat apatite on hydrophilic polymer grafted PE films by an alternate soaking process and that the apatite crystal morphology could be controlled as a function of polymer type and density. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.
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