Fabrication of Nanostructured Hydroxyapatite via Hydrothermal Synthesis and Spark Plasma Sintering |
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| Authors: | Xingyuan Guo Ping Xiao Jing Liu Zhijian Shen |
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| Affiliation: | Manchester Materials Science Centre, University of Manchester, Manchester M1 7HS, U.K.; Department of Inorganic Chemistry, Arrhenius Laboratory, Stockholm University, S-10691 Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Abstract: | Hydrothermal synthesis has been used to produce hydroxyapatite (HA) particles with high crystallinity. Such particles of nanorods were used to fabricate HA ceramic by using spark plasma sintering. X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscope, scanning electron microscope, and the BET method have been used to examine crystallite size, crystallite shape, and the surface area of particles, and grain size of sintered HA ceramics. It was found that the morphology of the nanorods in the HA particles changed to a more equiaxed shape during sintering. |
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