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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2013 Jan 16;34(10):2442–2454. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2012.12.029

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Modulating mineral morphology and spatial distribution of the mineralized pSBMA as a function of the chemical crosslinker content and the heating rate of the urea thermal decomposition-mediated mineralization process. Type I: isolated small spherical mineral nodules resulting from faster heating rates (1.0 and 0.5 °C/min) or higher crosslinker contents (2.651 and 1.326 mol%); Type II: large spherical mineral nodules resulting from medium heating rates (0.2 and 0.1 °C/min) or medium crosslinker contents (0.663, 0.265, and 0.133 mol%); Type III: stripe-like bicontinuous mineral aggregates of small spherical nodules resulting from slower heating rates (0.02 °C/min) or lower crosslinker contents (<0.027 mol%).