Characterization of PVA/Chitosan and Tuna Fish Bones CHA Scaffold for Bone Tissue Engineering

Bone tissue engineering has been used in the biomedical field to treat bone defects by implanting scaffolds into bone tissue. However, the currently developed scaffold still needs to be developed to obtain scaffold building materials with good compatible properties and can regenerate damaged bone cells. This study combines PVA/Chitosan polymer with CHA of tuna bone using the porogen leaching method at a calcination temperature of 100°C for 12 hours. The purpose of this study was to determine the physicochemical properties by characterizing XRD, SEM-EDX, FTIR, and the porosity of the scaffold. The results obtained from the results of the PVA/Chitosan/CHA XRD patterns are the formation of the PVA/Chitosan phase at 2θ(°)=19.68, the IR spectrum of the 43−group band and 2 stretching, the ratio mol Ca/P is 1.98, the pore diameter is 1.561 ± 0.07 μm and the porosity is 55.04%. These results indicate that the PVA/Chitosan/CHA scaffold is an amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) that has the potential for bone tissue engineering.