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Synthesis and characterization of acrylic bone cement reinforced with calcium carbonate-bioceramic

D. E. BACIU1,* , J. SIMITZIS1

Affiliation

  1. National Technical University of Athens, School of Chemical Engineering, Department III "Materials Science and Engineering", Laboratory Unit "Advanced and Composite Materials", 9 Heroon Polytechniou s

Abstract

Acrylic bone cement reinforced with bioceramic was synthesized by mixing beads of PMMA (produced by suspension polymerization), methylmethacrylate (MMA) as monomer, benzoyl peroxide (BPO) as free radical initiator and calcium carbonate (CaCO3) powder as bioceramic. The structure of PMMA, the structure of calcium carbonate and that of the acrylic bone cement reinforced or not with bioceramic were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Bioactivation of the PMMA bone cement by adding CaCO3 powder acting as bioceramic can be an advantageous solution for problems of bone filling as well as bone regeneration..

Keywords

Bioceramics, Bone cements, FTIR, XRD, SEM.

Submitted at: Feb. 12, 2013
Accepted at: April 11, 2013

Citation

D. E. BACIU, J. SIMITZIS, Synthesis and characterization of acrylic bone cement reinforced with calcium carbonate-bioceramic, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 15, Iss. 3-4, pp. 145-149 (2013)