TY - JOUR ID - 16073 TI - Biomimetic three-dimensional carbon fiber reinforced polymer hydroxyapatite nanocomposite for major load bearing orthopedic application JO - Advanced Materials Proceedings JA - AMP LA - en SN - 2002-4428 AU - Sarkar, Chandrani AU - Garai, Subhadra AD - Material Science and Technology, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur 831007, India. Department of Applied Chemistry, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad-826004, India AD - Material Science and Technology, CSIR-National Metallurgical Laboratory, Jamshedpur 831007, India. Y1 - 2018 PY - 2018 VL - 3 IS - 1 SP - 22 EP - 24 KW - Carbon fiber KW - hydroxyapatite KW - biomimetic KW - nanocomposite KW - bone graft DO - 10.5185/amp.2018/689 N2 - We report a novel biomimetic three-dimensional carbon fiber reinforced polymer hydroxyapatite nanocomposite having mechanical compressive strength (~116 MPa) and elastic modulus (~1.9 GPa) for load bearing orthopedic application. The synthetic route is very simple cost effective biomimetic process. It does not require any binder/porogen for the synthesis of mechanically strong porous nanocomposite. Physicochemical properties of synthesized nanocomposite are systematically characterized by XRD, FT-IR, SEM and Universal Testing Machine. It revealed that only small fraction of carbon fiber increased the compressive strength (~116 MPa) and elastic modulus (~1.9 GPa) by 11-12 folds from unreinforced polymer hydroxyapatite nanocomposite (compressive strength~ 12MPa, Elastic modulus~ 0.33 GPa). Copyright © 2018 VBRI Press. UR - https://amp.iaamonline.org/article_16073.html L1 - https://amp.iaamonline.org/article_16073_6883ac24e7bf140c725417e952943e4a.pdf ER -