Our recent paper in collaboration with Dr. Qiang Chen (School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, China), alumni of our Institute (PhD, 2015), Prof. Tingli Lu, and co-authors, entitled: Electric Field-Assisted Orientation of Short Phosphate Glass Fibers on Stainless Steel for Biomedical Applications has been just accepted for publication in ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces [1]. In this collaborative research project we developed a novel approach to modify metallic surfaces by electrophoretic deposition (EPD) employing short phosphate glass fibers. The random and aligned orientation of glass fibres embedded in a polyacrylic acid matrix was achieved by smart modification of the EPD cell. The results confirmed EPD as a powerful method to develop textured fibrous surfaces for biomedical implants. This international collaboration involved also Dr. Ifty Ahmed, University of Nottingham, UK, an expert in phosphate glass fibre technology.
[1] Q. Chen, et al., Electric Field-Assisted Orientation of Short Phosphate Glass Fibers on Stainless Steel for Biomedical Applications, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, in press (2018) DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b01378 ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, in press (2018) DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b01378