Poorly crystalline apatite has been directly nucleated on self-assembling alginate chains by neutralization synthesis to obtain a biomimetic artificial bone-like composite. It has been observed that in preparing HA/alginate composites, Ca2+ ions present on the apatitic surface cross-link the alginate chains to produce a material with different morphology and thermal stability, both functions of the HA/alginate weight ratio. In vitro tests were performed on different samples in terms of both the HA/alginate ratio and synthesis temperature. All the samples were cultured for seven days with MG63 osteoblast-like cells and then underwent morphological and biochemical analyses (MTT and ALP tests). Scaffolds showed a different solubility into the culture media, which was related to the temperature of synthesis and to the HA/alginate ratio. All our data confirm the ability of the tested materials to favour cell growth and to maintain their osteoblastic functionality, at least during the examined period.
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