Medical applications of zirconium oxide hybrid materials

authored by

R. J. Narayan, P. R. Miller, S. D. Gittard, B. N. Chichkov, N. C.A. Ovsianikov, A. Koroleva

Abstract

The zirconium oxide hybrid materials are making new inroads into the medical applications. The zirconium oxide hybrid materials are used in tissue-engineering scaffolds, microscale valves, microfluidic devices, drug-screening devices, drug delivery devices, bone prostheses and other medical devices. One of the group of researches has created poly(epsiloncaprolactone)/ zirconium oxide organic-inorganic hybrid materials by a sol-gel approach. They developed composite materials in which poly(epsilon-caprolactone)/zirconium oxide organic-inorganic hybrid material served as a filler and poly(epsilon-caprolactone) served as a matrix. Another group used a sol-gel approach to prepare HA/30 weight percent yttria-stabilized zirconia nanopowder. They doped zirconia with 0.8 mole percent yttria by reacting zirconium alkoxides with yttrium acetate. Another group of researchers have demonstrated the use of zirconium of oxide-based sol-gels for fabricating microcavities, which may be used as high-Q whispering mode galleries.

External Organisation(s)

University of North Carolina
Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH)

Type

Contribution in non-scientific journal

Journal

American Ceramic Society bulletin

Volume

90

Pages

24-29

No. of pages

6

ISSN

0002-7812

Publication date

09.2011

Publication status

Published

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Ceramics and Composites