Thermokinetic Investigation of the Drying Conditions on Amorphous Calcium Phosphate
Key Engineering Materials 2017
Agnese Brangule, Līga Avotiņa, Artūrs Zariņš, Mihails Haļitovs, Kārlis-Agris Gross, Gunta Ķizāne

The present work investigated dried calcium phosphate powders which still retain an amorphous or poorly crystalline structure under a variety of conditions. In previous studies, freeze- drying was found to be the optimum drying condition. However, several publications, as well as our previous studies, have shown that calcium phosphate amorphous, or a poorly crystalline structure, can retain their structure even if the samples are dried immediately after synthesis up to 200oC. In our study, we used the thermokinetic studies FTIR and XRD and showed that the samples are amorphous, or poorly crystalline, but were unable to answer the questions: Is there a difference between the differently dried amorphous calcium phosphates? What are the optimum drying conditions under which the amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) structure loses the physically bounded water, but still retains the chemically bounded water?


Keywords
amorphous calcium phosphate, chemisorbed water, physisorbed water, FTIR-PAS, DTA/TG, activation energy, Arrhenius plot.
DOI
10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.758.204
Hyperlink
https://www.scientific.net/KEM.758.204

Brangule, A., Avotiņa, L., Zariņš, A., Haļitovs, M., Gross, K., Ķizāne, G. Thermokinetic Investigation of the Drying Conditions on Amorphous Calcium Phosphate. In: Key Engineering Materials, France, Toulouse, 25-27 October, 2017. Switzerland: Trans Tech Publications, 2017, pp.204-209. ISSN 1013-9826. e-ISSN 1662-9795. Available from: doi:10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.758.204

Publication language
English (en)
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