Figures & data
Table 1. Mechanical tests and respective specimens fabricated from bone cement
Table 2. Material properties, average (SD)
Figure 1. Representative tensile stress‐strain plot for bone cement samples.
Figure 2. Fatigue life of radiolucent, microcomposite, and nanocomposite cements (cycles to failure, average (SD)).
Figure 3. Low‐voltage scanning electron micrograph depicting particle agglomerate in microcomposite cement (scale bar represents 10 μm).
Figure 4. Low‐voltage scanning electron micrographs of the fracture surface of a nanocomposite cement specimen (scale bar represents 1 μm).
Figure 5. High‐resolution low‐voltage scanning electron micrograph of the fracture surface of a nanocomposite cement specimen (magnification 10,000x; scale bar represents 1 μm).
Figure 6. USAXS scattering curves for radiolucent, micro composite, and nanocomposite cements.
Table 3. USAXS specific Surface Areas for PMMA bone cements
