Facile synthesis of anisotropic porous chitosan/hydroxyapatite

scaffolds for bone tissue engineering

Xuan Cai,a Li Chen,a Tao Jiang,b Xinyu Shen,*a Jiming Hu,a and Hua Tong*a

aKey Laboratory of Analytical Chemistry for Biology and Medicine, Ministry of Education,

College of Chemistry and Molecular Sciences, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430072, PR China. Fax:

+86 027 68752136; Tel: +86 027 68764510; E-mail: sem@whu.edu.cn

bKey Laboratory for Oral Biomedical Engineering, Ministry of Education, School and Hospital of

Stomatology, Wuhan University, Wuhan 430079, PR China.

Electronic Supplementary Information

Fig. S1 shows the typical digital photos of the dry monolithic piece of the orientation-structured porous CS/HA scaffold after air drying. The drying step is a common air drying process at room temperature without any special or additional steps.

Fig. S1 Typical digital photos of the orientation-structured porous CS/HA scaffold with unidirectional pores after air drying

process: (a) lateral surface picture; (b) surface picture

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