Abstract
Nanohydroxyapatite reinforced poly(vinyl alcohol) gel (nano-HA/PVA gel) composites has been proposed as an articular cartilage repair biomaterial. In this paper, nano-HA/PVA gel composites were prepared by in situ synthesis nano-HA particles in PVA solution and accompanied with freeze/thaw method. The influence of nano-HA content, PVA concentration, test frequency and freeze/thaw cycle times on the viscoelastic behavior of nano-HA/PVA gel composites were evaluated using dynamic mechanical thermal analysis (DMTA). The results showed that both storage modulus and loss modulus firstly increased and then presented decreasing trend with the rise of nano-HA content. Their maximum values were obtained while nano-HA content was 6%. Furthermore, the G' and G'' of the composites improve with the increase of PVA concentrations and freeze/thaw cycle times. This effect was more distinct at low freeze/thaw cycles. The phase angle (tan delta) of the pure PVA gel is larger than that of the nano-HA/PVA composites at the test frequency spectra, but all the phase angle values of the tested composites were close to that of nature bone.
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