Chemical surface treatment of silicone for inducing its bioactivity
- 1 January 1998
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine
- Vol. 9 (2) , 61-65
- https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1008886729050
Abstract
It has been confirmed that the apatite nucleation is induced by silanol (Si–OH) groups formed on the surfaces of materials and/or silicate ions adsorbed on them.It was previously shown that apatite...Keywords
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