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Karlis
Gross
- Current research activities
The current activity relates to the design of scaffolds with
particular attention to pore volume, pore size, pore shape, pore
interconnectivity, pore wall microtopography and the effect of
these aspects on mechanical strength, fluid flow, drug release
and the effect on stem cells and osteoprogenitor cells. Other
activities relate to the investigation of embryonic stem cell
response to chemically enriched apatites, charge modified polylactic
acid, microtopographies.
- Keywords
coatings, fluoride enriched hydroxyapatite, scaffold design,
microfabrication, resorbable magnetic microspheres, implant microtopography
- End-user applications
- filling of large bone defects
- coatings on hip, knee, shoulder prostheses, tooth implants
- resorbable micro-spheres for cancer therapy
- microtopography for cell cultures (cell multiplication, cell
adherence or cell proliferation)
- Key publications
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scaffold design and fabrication |
| II. |
stem cell colonisation |
| III. |
influence of micro/nanotopography on stem cell response |
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- Outreach activities
None as Yet.
- Key organisation membership
Australian tissue engineering interest groups
- Early career researcher?
No.
- Young investigator?
Yes.
- Skills and expertise
- particle manufacture
- coating manufacture
- scaffold design and fabrication
- microfabrication
- micro/nanotopography
- Synthesis and characterization of apatites
- Specialist equipment and infrastructure
- Thermal spray technology
- Spherical particle manufacture with ultrasonic atomization
into a freeze drier
- Synthesis of calcium phosphate
- Microscopy (optical, SEM, AFM, TEM), and other traditional
materials analysis tools
- Contact Details
Dr. Karlis A Gross
Address: School of Physics and Materials engineering
Building 69 Monash University, VIC 3800
Country: Australia
Phone: +61 3 9905 4910
Fax:
Email: karlis.gross@spme.monash.edu.au
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