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I reviewed the titanium nanotube paper and found this to be very interesting.  …The process of making the TNT (titanium nanotubes) is a chemical heat processing …After the TNT is built it is then exposed to electrical charge to build charge density on the fibers.  Either way the fibers worked better in-line, but it revolves around their ability to act as capacitors. …They have been comparing the ability of TNT to hold up to 4X more charge than currently investigated ceramics (e.g., HA).  The paper demonstrated significantly enhanced bone growth and differentiation over the charged TNT than noncharged TNT.  The induced charge was 37.15+/- 14 mC/cm2.  The calculated storage charge was 0.97 mF/cm2 (close to reported literature for supercapacitor-based applications). So TNT stores charge better than ceramics. The higher specific surface area of the TNT that aids in higher contact area as well as ordered array of the TNT which may reduce the disturbance from inter particle connections.  This provides direct contact for electron transfer.  …It was also interesting that they demonstrated no toxicity due to TNT.

Added by DJM 7 2021