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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 9.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2007 May 26;28(26):3786–3796. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2007.05.015

Table 1.

Group 1: macropores in CPC and effect of chitosan reinforcement

Materials Powder Liquid
CPC without macropores CPC powder Water
CPC–sodium phosphate without macropores CPC powder Sodium phosphate solutiona
CPC–sodium phosphate with macropores CPC powder+mannitolb Sodium phosphate solutiona
CPC–chitosan with macropores CPC powder+mannitolb Chitosan solutionc
a

This was a 0.75 mol/L sodium phosphate solution (Abbott Laboratories, North Chicago, IL) to cause fast-setting to the cement.

b

Mannitol was a porogen that was used to create macropores in CPC. The mannitol/(CPC powder+mannitol) mass fraction M was fixed at 0.4 for Group 1.

c

Chitosan biopolymer was used to cause fast-setting and strengthening to the cement. The chitosan/(chitosan+water) mass fraction = 15%.