Implantable materials have broad applications in tissue engineering and in vivo sensors. It is essential to know the detailed information of the implantable materials during their degradation. In this paper, we developed a method to monitor the degradation process of a well-used biomaterial, poly（lactide-co- glycolide） （PLGA） by taking advantage of inverse opal structure. We found that mass loss, molecular weight and glass transition temperature of PLGA during the degradation process in Hank＇s artificial body fluid can be in situ monitored bv measuring the ootical orooerties of PLGA inverse ooal.
Hexagonal trumpet-like sodium hexafluorosilicate （SFS） flowers, grown on an ordered porous polystyrene film （OPPF）, were prepared via a synchronous dissolution/regrowth process. Their formation process can be divided into several steps： first, the dissolution of the silica spheres induced the crystallization of SFS onto the OPPF; second, some pores emerged on the closely packed bumps when being blown by the SiF4 gas; third, when the crystal was blown by continuous gas from the pores, the span of the top became larger than that of the bottom.
Li-Guo SunZheng JinDong-Mei ZhaoShu-Hong WangCheng Wang
