GRAPHEN OXIDE MATERIAL AND METHOD FOR ITS PREPARATION
Patent Information
- Application Number
- DE602020066526
- Authority / Receiving Office
- DE · DE
- Patent Type
- Patents
- Current Assignee / Owner
- Priority Date
- 2019-12-20
- Filing Date
- 2020-12-17
- Publication Date
- 2026-02-04
- Estimated Expiration
- 2040-12-17
AI Technical Summary
Current treatments for bone fractures and bone healing, such as bone grafting, are suboptimal, leading to unsatisfactory repairs, high economic burden, and prolonged healing times, and there is a need for more effective and cost-efficient methods that do not rely on toxic growth factors to promote bone regeneration.
A multi-layered graphene oxide material is produced by annealing and plasma treatment to reduce oxygen content, enhance stability, and graft functional groups, creating a substrate that promotes spontaneous stem cell differentiation and adhesion without the need for growth factors.
The material supports efficient bone regeneration by facilitating spontaneous stem cell differentiation into osteoblasts, reducing healing times, and providing a stable substrate for cell adhesion, while being suitable for energy storage applications.