Material promotes self-healing bones. (Sneak Preview).(advertisement)

Design News,  June, 2002  by Wiebusch, Bruce

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A team of Northwestern University scientists led by Professor of Materials Science and Engineering Samuel I. Stupp is the first team to develop a bone-like material fort he treatment for bone fractures and bone cancer. "Recreating natural bone structure at the nanoscale level-the first level of bone structural hierarchy-is what we set out to do with our experiments, and we succeeded," said Northwestern postdoctoral fellow Jeffrey D.

Hartgerink, the lead author of a paper reporting the results. A nanofiber measuring about 8 nanometers in diameter is 10,000 times smaller ...

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