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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Apr 2.
Published in final edited form as: Adv Funct Mater. 2013 Nov 18;24(13):1895–1903. doi: 10.1002/adfm.201302920

Figure 7. Schematic of the process of intrafibrillar deposition of yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) within a collagen fibril.

Figure 7

Acac-stablized YSZ nano-sized precursors infuse into the fibril and coalesce in the presence of the PAH-crosslinked collagen molecules to form larger-sized amorphous precusor aggregates. These aggregates further condense in the presence of water available within the intrafibrillar compartments of the collagen fibril into amorphous YSZ nanoparticles.