Objective
The objective of this project is to look at the feasibility of developing a biodegradable bone glue for fracture fixation in orthopaedic surgery. Recently glass polyalkenoate cements formed from poly(acrylic acid) and ion leachable glasses have been developed as chemically adhesive bone cements. However there is a clinical need for a degradable adhesive. The objective of the current project is to synthesise and characterise poly(B Malic Acid). Poly(B Malic Acid) has the same chemical structure as poly(acrylic acid), but has an ester group in the polymer backbone and will hydrolyse to Malic Acid a metabolite of the TCA cycle. The chemistry of cement formation between Poly(B Malic Acid) anci ion leachable fluorosilicate glasse subsequently will be investigated and te mechanical properties of suitable cements characterised.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- medical and health sciences clinical medicine surgery
- natural sciences chemical sciences polymer sciences
- engineering and technology materials engineering amorphous solids
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Coordinator
61 Limerick
Ireland
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