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EMERGING RESEARCH FRONTS - 2010

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Tadashi Kokubo & Hiroaki Takadama talk with ScienceWatch.com and answer a few questions about this month's Emerging Research Front Paper in the field of Materials Science. The authors have also sent along images of their work.
Tadashi Kokubo
Hiroaki Takadama
Article: How useful is SBF in predicting in vivo bone bioactivity?

Authors: Kokubo, T;Takadama, H
Journal: BIOMATERIALS, 27 (15): 2907-2915, MAY 2006
Addresses: Chubu Univ, Coll Life & Hlth Sci, Dept Biomed Sci, 1200
Matsumoto, Kasugai, Aichi 4878501, Japan.
Chubu Univ, Coll Life & Hlth Sci, Dept Biomed Sci, Kasugai, Aichi 4878501, Japan.

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Figures and Descriptions

FIGURE 1:

FIGURE 1 DESCRIPTION:

 Transmission electron micrograph of interface between glass-ceramic A–W and rat tibia. The glass-ceramic formed an apatite on its surface in the living body and bonded to the bone through the apatite layer.


 

FIGURE 2:

FIGURE 2 DESCRIPTION:

Scanning electron micrograph of apatite formed on silica gel (left) and titania gel (right) in SBF.


 

FIGURE 3:

FIGURE 3 DESCRIPTION:

Transmission electron micrograph of cross section of apatite layer formed on glass-ceramic A–W in SBF.


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