University of Alabama at Birmingham, Department of Physics
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Current Research Areas

 
 

Calcium Phosphate Bioceramics. Our goal in this area is to gain new levels of control over the micro- and nanostructure of calcium phosphate bioceramics. The aim is to harness the outstanding biocompatibility of calcium phosphates, engineered at the nanoscale, to manipulate and probe biological processes involved in tissue regeneration and gene delivery. We have demonstrated calcium phosphates with tailored phase composition and controlled crystallographic texture.

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Recent Publications in this Area
  1. H. Kim, R. P. Camata, S. Lee, G. S. Rohrer, A. D. Rollett, Y. K. Vohra “Crystallographic Texture in Pulsed Laser Deposited Hydroxyapatite Bioceramic Coatings,” Acta Materialia, 55, 131139 (2007).

  2. H. Kim, R. P. Camata, S. Lee, G. S. Rohrer, A. D. Rollett, S. L. Bellis, Y. K. Vohra “Calcium Phosphate Bioceramics With Tailored Crystallographic Texture For Controlling Cell Adhesion” in Mechanotransduction and Engineered Cell-Surface Interactions, edited by M. P. Sheetz, J. T. Groves, D. Discher (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 925E, Warrendale, PA, 2006), BB.2.7.

  3. H. Kim, R. P. Camata, Y. K. Vohra, and W. R. Lacefield; “Control of phase composition in hydroxyapatite/tetracalcium phosphate biphasic thin coatings for biomedical application," Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine, 16, 961, (2005).

  4. H. Kim, Y. K. Vohra, P. J. Louis, W. R. Lacefield, J. E. Lemons, and R. P. Camata; “Biphasic and Preferentially Oriented Microcystalline Calcium Phosphate Coatings: In-vitro and In-vivo Studies,” Key Engineering Materials 284-286, 207-210, (2005).

  5. S. Brown, H. Kim, R. P. Camata, “A Hybrid Laser/Aerosol Method for the Synthesis of Porous Nanostructured Calcium Phosphate Materials for Bone Tissue Engineering Applications,” in Nanoscale Materials Science in Biology and Medicine, edited by Cato T. Laurencin and Edward A. Botchwey (Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 845, Warrendale, PA , 2005), AA5.35.

 

 

 

 

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