title: Calcium phosphate bone cements for clinical applications. Part I: solution chemistry.
abstract: Calcium phosphate cements have been the subject of many studies in the last decade because of their biocompatibility, their capacity to fill bone cavities and their hardening properties; properties which are desirable in a broad range of surgical applications. The setting and hardening of these materials are controlled by dissolution-precipitation chemical reactions at room or body temperature and involve crystalline phase transformations.
authors.affiliation: Dpt Materials Science and Metallurgy, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Avda. Diagonal 647, 08028-Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fernández
authors.forename: F J
authors.initials: FJ
authors.lastname: Gil
authors.forename: M P
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: Ginebra
authors.forename: F C
authors.initials: FC
authors.lastname: Driessens
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Planell
authors.forename: S M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Best