Method for controlling average pore diameter of porous body comprising apatite/collagen composite fibers
AssigneesHoya Corporation, National Institute for Materials Science
InventorsDaisuke Shoji, Katsumi Kawamura, Takehiko Nakajima, Junzo Tanaka, Masanori Kikuchi, Toshiyuki Ikoma, Naomi Mochizuki
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Abstract
In the process of producing a porous body containing a fibrous apatite/collagen composite by gelating a dispersion comprising the fibrous apatite/collagen composite, collagen and water, freeze-drying the resultant gel to form a porous body, and cross-linking collagen in the porous body, a method for controlling the average pore diameter of the porous body by the solidification time of the gel in the freezing step.
Claims2
A method for controlling an average pore diameter of a porous body comprising a fibrous apatite/collagen composite, said porous body being produced by:
- gelating a dispersion comprising said fibrous apatite/collagen composite, collagen and water;
- freeze-drying the resultant gel to form a porous body;
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- cross-linking the collagen in said porous body,
- wherein the average pore diameter of the porous body is controlled by the following in the following order:
- a) freezing pluralities of gels at various freezing-environment temperatures and measuring the solidification time of each gel to prepare a graph showing the relation between the freezing-environment temperature and the solidification time;
- b) measuring the average pore diameter of the porous body obtained at various lengths of solidification time to prepare a graph showing the relation between solidification time and average pore diameter;
- c) determining the solidification time for providing a desired average pore diameter of said porous body from the graph of the solidification time and the average pore diameter;
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- d) determining the freezing-environment temperature for achieving the determined solidification time from the graph of the freezing-environment temperature and the solidification time.
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