Bioceramics Development and Applications

Sampath Kumar TS

Publications

• Research Article
  Self Setting Bone Cement Formulations Based on Egg shell Derived TetraCalcium Phosphate BioCeramics
  Author(s): Sampath Kumar TS, Jayasree R, Pavani Siva Kavya K, Rakesh Nankar P and Mukesh DSampath Kumar TS, Jayasree R, Pavani Siva Kavya K, Rakesh Nankar P and Mukesh D
  
  Egg shells have been used as a calcium source for synthesis of tetra calcium phosphate (ETTCP) by solid state reaction method. The cell parameters and cell volume of ETTCP measured by X-ray powder diffraction method were lower than the tetra calcium phosphate prepared using synthetic Ca(CO)3 (pure TTCP) for comparison. The vibration bands of ETTCP were also slightly different from the vibration bands of pure TTCP characterized by Fourier transformed infrared spectroscopy. ETTCP has been tried as a main component in a self setting bone cement to evaluate the advantages of the presence of the biologically relevant ions such as Mg2+, Sr2+, SiO2- 4, F-, K+ and Na+ ions in the cement properties. The setting time of the ETTCP derived cement was ~ 11 min compared to ~ 16 min of the pure TTCP derived cement. The amount of hydroxyapatite formed as the end product was about 12% higher for ETTCP.. Read More»
  

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