Nanostructured Calcium Phosphates for Biomedical Applications
Key Engineering Materials 2014
Linda Vecbiškena, Luigi De Nardo, Roberto Chiesa

Despite the progress, nanostructured calcium phosphates have the potential to improve the field of hard tissue engineering. Amorphous calcium phosphates with Ca/P molar ratio near 1.67 and 1.5 were synthesized by wet-chemical precipitation method and treated with ethanol. Upon thermal treatment, ACP clusters about 50 nm create a nanostructured HA or TCP. The highlights of this research: The precipitate treatment with ethanol provided a pure α-TCP that was found to be stable up to 1000 °C. HA is obtained from the ACP precursor synthesized using also ammonium dihydrogen phosphate.


Keywords
Amorphous calcium phosphate, hydroxyapatite, α-tricalcium phosphate
DOI
10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.604.212
Hyperlink
https://www.scientific.net/KEM.604.212

Vecbiškena, L., De Nardo, L., Chiesa, R. Nanostructured Calcium Phosphates for Biomedical Applications. Key Engineering Materials, 2014, Vol.604, pp.212-215. ISSN 1662-9795. Available from: doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.604.212

Publication language
English (en)
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