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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 120, Issue 2-3, Pages 603-607Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2009.12.004
Keywords
Biomaterials; Nucleation; Crystal growth; Microstructure
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- National Nature Science Foundation of China [30600149, 30970887]
- science research foundation of ministry of Health & United Fujian Provincial Health and Education [WKJ 2008-2-037]
- Project of Education Department [209061, JA08030]
- Fujian Provincial Department of Science and Technology [200610015]
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Hydroxyapatite (HA) crystals with different morphologies were synthesized by hydrothermal method, using Ca(NO3)(2)center dot 4H(2)O and (NH4)(3)PO4 center dot 3H(2)O as raw materials and poly(sodium 4-styrene-sulfonate) (PSS) as the template. The crystals from above preparation procedure were characterized by means of Xray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscope (FT-IR), transmission electron microscope (TEM), thermogravimetry analyzer (TG) and UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectra (UV-Vis). The results show that PSS concentration and the hydrothermal temperature play key roles in controlling the morphology of HA crystals. At certain temperature, the obtained HA transformed from fibre-like to rod-like with the increasing of PSS concentration. At certain PSS concentration, the shape of obtained HA varied from rodlike to prism-like when the temperature is increased. And the aspect ratio of HA crystal decreases with the increasing of PSS concentration and hydrothermal temperature. The possible formation mechanism of different morphologies of HA crystals is also discussed in this paper. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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