Science: Laboratory "Crash" Mother of Pearl, is expected to transform into artificial bones

Release date: 2016-10-17

      

Professor Yu Shuhong from the University of Science and Technology of China for the first time prepared artificial bionic structural materials by simulating the growth process of natural mother-of-pearl. It has high chemical composition and microstructure similar to natural mother-of-pearl, and has good strength and toughness. The results were published in the American journal Science published recently.

The inner layer of the mother-of-pearl has a unique and complex micro-layered structure, which makes the mother-of-pearl have extraordinary hardness and toughness at the same time, which are not compatible with many synthetic materials.

The Yu Shuhong team first constructed a similar layered “frame” with the same organic material as the natural shell by means of orientation freezing and acetylation transformation, and placed it into the artificial “cavity”. Unlike the shellfish in nature, which spent several years continuously secreting the organic matter and mineralizing the calcium carbonate on its frame, Yu Shuhong designed a “circulatory system”, which is a continuous pump that acts like a human heart. The saturated hydrogen bicarbonate solution is pumped into the frame of the chamber, and the residual waste after the reaction is taken out, and the natural formation process of the mother-of-pearl for several years can be “replicated” within two weeks, and the speed is over 100 times. Various detection methods such as electron microscopy show that the artificial material prepared by the material growth method which is highly similar to the natural strategy is highly similar to the natural mother-of-pearl in composition and microstructure, and reproduces the natural mother-of-pearl on multiple scales. The microscopic hierarchical structure and mechanical properties, while also showing good strength and toughness in the macroscopic.

Professor Yu Shuhong said that the development of human bones and teeth is similar to the formation of mother-of-pearl. The difference is that the main component of mineralization is calcium hydroxyphosphate instead of calcium carbonate. Using a similar strategy to synthesize artificial bones or teeth, it is expected to highly reproduce the strength and toughness of human bones, and because of the high degree of composition, it can effectively avoid the rejection of materials implanted into the human body, and also eliminate the former metal components into the human body. The pain to take out.

Source: Science and Technology Daily - China Science and Technology Network

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