Abstract
Magnesium-substituted hydroxyapatite (Mg-HAp) powders with different crystallinity levels were prepared at room temperature via a heterogeneous reaction between Mg(OH)2/Ca(OH)2 powders and an (NH 4)2HPO4 solution using the mechanochemical- hydrothermal route. The as-prepared products contained unreacted Mg(OH) 2 and therefore had to undergo purification in ammonium citrate aqueous solutions at room temperature. X-ray diffraction, infrared spectroscopy, thermogravimetric and chemical analyses were performed and it was determined that the purified powders were phase-pure Mg-HAp containing 0.24-28.4wt% of Mg. The concentration of Mg was slightly lower near the surface than in the bulk of the HAp crystals as indicated by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy. Dynamic light scattering revealed that the median particle size of the room temperature Mg-HAp powders was in the range of 102nm-1.2μm with a specific surface area between 91 and 269m2/g. Scanning electron microscopy confirmed that the Mg-HAp powders consisted of submicron agglomerates of nanosized crystals, less than ≈20nm.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 4647-4657 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Biomaterials |
Volume | 25 |
Issue number | 19 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 2004 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Biophysics
- Bioengineering
- Ceramics and Composites
- Biomaterials
- Mechanics of Materials
Keywords
- Crystallinity
- Hydrothermal synthesis
- Hydroxyapatite
- Magnesium
- Mechanochemical synthesis
- Nanoparticle