Abstract
Over the past few decades, biocomposite materials consist of high density polyethylene (HDPE) and synthetic hydroxyapatite (HAp) have been proposed as a substitute material to be used in biomedical applications. Most of HAp that were produced synthetically, which is very expansive as well as laborious and time-consuming process. Therefore, an alternative material has been found to replace synthetic HAp with natural HAp which extracted from biowaste such as animal bone, teeth and eggshell. HAp extracted from biowaste is considered environmental friendly materials as there is no chemicals were used and it is economical due to cheaper raw material. Besides that, several million tons of fish scale are being generated daily as biowaste around the world. This scenario will end up with abundant of biowaste and become a liability to government to dispose them. Biowaste from fish scale that was become liability is now becomes an asset by transformed them into biomaterial which have potential to be used in biomedical applications. This chapter uniquely highlights the synthetic HAp and biogenic HAp from fish scales (FsHAp) as a filler in HDPE composites and their potential applications in biomedical applications.
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