Opportunities for nanotechnology-enabled bioactive bone implants

Phong A. Tran; Love Sarin; Robert H. Hurt; Thomas J. Webster

doi:10.1039/B814334J

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Opportunities for nanotechnology-enabled bioactive bone implants

Phong A. Tran , Love Sarin , Robert H. Hurt and Thomas J. Webster

J. Mater. Chem., 2009, 19, 2653-2659

DOI: 10.1039/B814334J
Received 20 Aug 2008, Accepted 30 Oct 2008
First published on the web 14 Jan 2009

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Until recently, traditional orthopedic implant materials termed “bioactive” have been engineered to actively promote integration with living bone. We propose to look beyond this traditional form of bioactivity (specifically for orthopedics, in which bioactivity refers to osseointegration), and introduce the use of nanoscale surface features, fabricated using various nanotechnology tools, to provide extended functionality to implants and thus create a new class of “smarter” bioactive implant materials.

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