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Mechanical properties of self-setting composites: influence of the carboxymethylcellulose content and hydration state

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The impact of the carboxymethylcellulose (CMC) content on the mechanical properties of calcium phosphate–calcium carbonate–CMC composite cements for bone substitution was investigated. The relevance of the compressive test conditions (wet or dried composite cements) is discussed and models are proposed to better understand the mechanisms involved in the mechanical properties of the composite materials. Based on a modellisation using the Voigt model for dried composite cements, we show that a minimum of CMC content of around 10–20 % is needed to enhance the mechanical properties of the dried composite materials (up to 86 MPa for the composite including 50 wt% CMC) through the formation of a mineral–organic entangled network. The compressive strength of the wet samples is low (<3 MPa) but the gain observed in the dried composites is encouraging and might be extrapolated to wet conditions if we were to use a less hydrophilic polysaccharide.

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Acknowledgements

The authors thank the Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR—TecSan 2009 programme) for supporting this research (Grant No. BIOSINJECT-ANR-09-TECS-004). The authors thank Eve Hui (internship from the Université de Technologie de Compiègne, France) for her help with the experimental part of this study and Sophie Girod-Fullana and Fabien Brouillet from CIRIMAT (Toulouse, France) for their help in the selection of the polysaccharide.

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  1. CIRIMAT INPT-CNRS-UPS, Université de Toulouse, ENSIACET, 4 Allée Emile Monso, 31030, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

    Sylvaine Jacquart, Dominique Poquillon, Gérard Dechambre, Christian Rey & Christèle Combes

  2. CIRIMAT INPT-CNRS-UPS, Université de Toulouse, Faculté des Sciences Pharmaceutiques, 31062, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

    Sophie Cazalbou

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Jacquart, S., Poquillon, D., Dechambre, G. et al. Mechanical properties of self-setting composites: influence of the carboxymethylcellulose content and hydration state. J Mater Sci 51, 4296–4305 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-016-9739-4

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