Table 1.
Chemical composition of bone cements used for the research.
| Chemical Composition | Unmodified Bone Cement/BC/ | Antibiotic-Loaded Bone Cement/BC A/ | Bone Cement Modified with Nanometals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| nanoAg/BC-NpAg/ | nanoCu/BC-NpCu/ | nanoAg & nanoCu/BC-NpAg+Cu/ | |||||||
| Powder Component (% w/w) | |||||||||
| Polymethyl methacrylate | 84.30 | 83.05 | 81.77 | 83.05 | 81.77 | 83.05 | 81.77 | 83.05 | |
| Barium sulfate | 13.00 | 12.80 | 12.61 | 12.80 | 12.61 | 12.80 | 12.61 | 12.80 | |
| Benzoyl peroxide | 2.70 | 2.65 | 2.62 | 2.65 | 2.62 | 2.65 | 2.62 | 2.65 | |
| Gentamicin sulphate | ------- | 1.50 | 3.00 | ------- | ------- | ------- | ------- | ------- | |
| NanoAg | ------- | ------- | ------ | 1.50 | 3.00 | ------- | ------- | 1.15 | 1.50 |
| NanoCu | ------- | ------- | ------ | ------- | ------ | 1.50 | 3.00 | 0.35 | |
| Liquid Component (% w/w) | |||||||||
| Methyl Methacrylate | 99.10 | ||||||||
| N,N-dimethyl-p-toluidine | 0.90 | ||||||||
| Hydroquinone | 75.00 | ||||||||