Research Article

Engineered Hybrid Scaffolds of Poly(vinyl alcohol)/Bioactive Glass for Potential Bone Engineering Applications: Synthesis, Characterization, Cytocompatibility, and Degradation

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SEM of PVA/BaG/GA hybrids crosslinked with (a) 0%; (b) 1.0%; (c) 5.0% of GA. (d) X-Ray microcomputed tomography of sample crosslinked with 5.0% of glutaraldehyde. Pore size distribution (e) and interconnection size distribution (f) obtained by μCT analysis of the hybrid PVA/BaG crosslinked with 5.0% glutaraldehyde.
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