enlarges postoperative complications and morbidity. [1] Implantable materials with the desired surface to stimulate bone formation and prevent prosthesis implant loosening within the host bone remain as unsolved and intractable issues. [2] Manipulating a rapid, stable, and permanent bond between the implant and host bone upon the interface is pivotal for the maintenance of the enduring implant function and integrity. Miscellaneous sophisticated designed implantable materials confer favorable integrity to the implant, but often these materials are focusing on the modulation of osteogenesis and/or angiogenesis through relevant cell-lines. [3-6] This stratagem has achieved incontestable success in the development of the implantable biomaterials; however, persistent discordances between in vitro and in vivo studies connoting the underlying mechanisms pertain to the material-intervened osseointegration is not well-understand hitherto. [7] Osseointegration is a sophisticated process that starts immediately with a blood clot formation upon the implantation. [8] The clot is formed initially by an activated platelet plug that is then reinforced by a 3D fibrin fiber network. [9] Meanwhile, a myriad of growth mediators and cytokines are released by way of the platelet activation, progressively, to the local environment. [10] The thickness and density of the fibrin fiber Blood coagulation and inflammation are the earliest biological responses to implant surfaces. Implant nano-surfaces can significantly impact the osseointegration through the influence on the early phase of bone regeneration. However, the interplay between blood clot property and inflammatory reaction on nanosurfaces is rarely understood. Herein, titania nanotube arrays (TNAs) with different diameters are fabricated on titanium. In vitro evaluation with the whole blood indicates that TNA with a diameter of 15 nm (TNA 15) enables noteworthy platelet activation resulting in distinct clot features compared with that of pure Ti and TNA with a diameter of 120 nm (TNA 120). Further co-culture with macrophages on the clot or in the clot-conditioned medium shows that the clot on TNA 15 downregulates the inflammation and manipulates a favorable osteoimmunomodulatory environment for osteogenesis. In vivo studies further demonstrate that TNA 15 could downregulate the inflammation-related genes while upregulating growth metabolism-related genes in an early healing hematoma. Additionally, TNA 15 promotes de novo bone formation with improved extending of osteocyte dendrites, demonstrating the desired osseointegration. These findings indicate that surface nano-dimensions can significantly influence clot formation and appropriate clot features can manipulate a favorable osteoimmunomodulatory environment for bone regeneration and osseointegration.
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