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Influence of substrate material and surface finishing on the morphology of the calcium-phosphate coating

E Leitão1, M A Barbosa, K de Groot

  • 1INEB-Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica/FEUP-Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, Portugal.

Journal of Biomedical Materials Research
|July 1, 1997
PubMed

Keywords:
calcium-phosphate coatingssurface finishmetal substratesapatite formationbiomedical materials

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