Freeze casting with bioceramics affords the opportunity to create next generation of bone graft substitutes. Because its versatile material fabrication process and effective methods structural control, freeze helps meet many criteria that are required viable substitute biomaterials. In combination biocompatible resorbable ceramics ceramic composites can offer growth through osteoconduction, thi...

Freeze casting with isopropanol (IPA)–H2O as a freezing agent has shown the potential to create porous scaffolds with enlarged pores. Though not experimentally proven, this effect has been suggested to be the result of non-stoichiometric structures called clathrate hydrates forming during the freezing process. In this manuscript, we build upon these results to provide experimental evidence of t...

Structured biofoams have been prepared from the readily available renewable biopolymer xylan by employing an icetemplating technique, where the pore morphology of the material can be controlled by the solidification conditions and the molecular structure of the polysaccharide. Furthermore, reinforcement of these biodegradable foams using cellulose nanocrystals shows potential for strongly impro...

The concept of freeze out volume used in many statistical approaches for disassembly of hot nuclei leads to ambiguities. The fragmentation pattern and the momentum distribution (temperature) of the emanated fragments are determined by the phase space at the freeze-out volume where the interaction among the fragments is supposedly frozen out. However, to get coherence with the experimental momen...

Freeze casting is a cost effective, efficient, and versatile technique capable of producing 3D structures with controlled pore shapes, orientation crystals, components' geometries in many porous materials. hydroxyapatite (HAP) has been widely applied to bone tissue engineering due HAP's biodegradable, biocompatible, osteoconductive properties. It provides interconnected relatively high mechanic...