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Thermal kinetics analysis of bone tissue organic phase

M. TĂMĂŞAN1,* , M. BĂCIUŢ2, V. COMAN3, V. SIMON1

Affiliation

  1. Babeş-Bolyai University, Faculty of Physics & Institute for Interdisciplinary Experimental Research, 400084 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  2. Iuliu Haţieganu University of Medicine and Pharmacy, Department of Cranio-Maxillofacial Surgery, 400029 Cluj-Napoca, Romania
  3. Babeş-Bolyai University, Raluca Ripan Institute for Research in Chemistry, 400294 Cluj-Napoca, Romania

Abstract

The rapid self-regeneration properties of deer antler tissue recommend this material as a potential bone regenerating biomaterial, because after high temperature treatments and gamma sterilization it represents a special source of hydoxyapatite. In order to investigate the decomposition of the organic phase existing in the bonelike antler tissue and the apatite type structural stability of the inorganic phase, thermal analyses were conducted at different heating rates, both on non-irradiated and gamma irradiated samples..

Keywords

Biomaterials, Deer antler, Hydroxyapatite, Thermal analysis, Activation energy.

Submitted at: March 27, 2009
Accepted at: April 28, 2009

Citation

M. TĂMĂŞAN, M. BĂCIUŢ, V. COMAN, V. SIMON, Thermal kinetics analysis of bone tissue organic phase, Journal of Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials Vol. 11, Iss. 4, pp. 479-483 (2009)