Process engineering, characterization and self-healing assessment ot toughened calcium phosphate silicate composite bone cements
Self-healing, the ability to repair defects without external assistance, is one of the most magnificent characteristics of natural tissues. Achieving similar characteristics in biomaterials substituting natural tissues is highly desirable. As ceramic bone cements are designed to substitute bone tiss...
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University of British Columbia
2014
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/45685 |