Fabrication of Porous Alumina Structures by SPS and Carbon Sacrificial Template for Bone Regeneration

In this work, a procedure for fabricating porous alumina with the use of a carbon sacrificial template has been tested in order to optimize the fabrication of porous structures mimicking the porosity and mechanical properties of the human cortical bone. Two different sources of sacrificial carbon we...

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Autores: González-Sánchez, Manuela, Rivero-Antúnez, Pedro, Cano-Crespo, Rafael, Morales-Flórez, Víctor
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Recursos:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/263672
Acesso em linha:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/263672
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:alumina
porous structure
mechanical properties
carbon
sacrificial template
spark plasma sintering
bone regeneration
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Resumo:In this work, a procedure for fabricating porous alumina with the use of a carbon sacrificial template has been tested in order to optimize the fabrication of porous structures mimicking the porosity and mechanical properties of the human cortical bone. Two different sources of sacrificial carbon were used and compared, and different sintering and calcination routes were considered. The porosity of the alumina structures studied by Hg porosimetry revealed that the amount of porosity and the size and shape of the pores are still below the required values, although some acicular pores were clearly observed by SEM. Moreover, measured mechanical properties (Young’s modulus) remained below that of the bone, suggesting the need for further consolidation treatments. In summary, these encouraging results drive the optimization of future fabrication routes.