Calcium phosphate bone cements for clinical applications. Part I: solution chemistry.
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.
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Dpt Materials Science and Metallurgy, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Avda. Diagonal 647, 08028-Barcelona, Spain.
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