Abstract:
To improve the mechanical property and the bioactivity of scaffold materials for bone tissue engineering, combining the advantages of natural and synthetic polymers, the polycaprolactone(PCL)-chitosan(CS) porous scaffold materials were prepared by the solution blend and the phase separation method, and the scaffold materials were enhanced by infilling with n-HA-polyvinyl-alcohol(n-HA-PVA) composite slurry to prepare n-HA-PVA/PCL-CS composite porous scaffold through a novel method—centrifugal slipcasting technique. The scaffold materials were characterized by scanning electron microscope, Fourier transform infrared spectroscope, elemental analysis, porosity and compressive strength. The results show that PCL-CS scaffold materials have the mutual transfixion porosity structure like a honeycomb. The porosity of the materials can attain 60%~80%. With increasing the content of CS, the porosity increases and the compressive strength decreases. After filling with HA-PVA composite slurry, the porosity of n-HA-PVA/PCL-CS composite scaffold materials decreases, but still greater than 60%, and its compression modulus cn increase to 25.71 MPa.