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Ultra-fine hydroxyapatite (HAp) powder with a diameter of about 10 nm was used as precursor for preparation of HAp ceramic. The precursor hydroxyapatite was single phase and highly crystallized without any additional thermal treatment. Highly densified HAp ceramic was fabricated through centrifugal infiltration casting (CIC), followed by pressureless sintering. The relative densities of compacts prepared at 1100°C and 1200°C were 77.8% and 94.1%, respectively. SEM micrographs of HAp ceramic sintered at 1100°C showed a porous microstructure with a grain size of 1 μm. HAp ceramic fabricated at 1200°C revealed a dense microstructure with nano-sized spherical α-TCP distributed at grain boundaries and triple points. The mechanism of decomposition from HAp to α-TCP at 1200°C was discussed on the basis of SEM, XRD and FTIR results.


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Preparation of hydroxyapatite ceramic through centrifugal casting process using ultra-fine spherical particles as precursor and its decomposition at high temperatures

Show Author's information Yanjie ZHANGa,bJinjun LUa,*( )Shengrong YANGa
State Key Laboratory of Solid Lubrication, Lanzhou Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000, China
Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100039, China

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Ultra-fine hydroxyapatite (HAp) powder with a diameter of about 10 nm was used as precursor for preparation of HAp ceramic. The precursor hydroxyapatite was single phase and highly crystallized without any additional thermal treatment. Highly densified HAp ceramic was fabricated through centrifugal infiltration casting (CIC), followed by pressureless sintering. The relative densities of compacts prepared at 1100°C and 1200°C were 77.8% and 94.1%, respectively. SEM micrographs of HAp ceramic sintered at 1100°C showed a porous microstructure with a grain size of 1 μm. HAp ceramic fabricated at 1200°C revealed a dense microstructure with nano-sized spherical α-TCP distributed at grain boundaries and triple points. The mechanism of decomposition from HAp to α-TCP at 1200°C was discussed on the basis of SEM, XRD and FTIR results.

Keywords: hydroxyapatite, bioceramics, Centrifugal Infiltration Casting, pressureless sintering

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Received: 13 April 2011
Accepted: 15 November 2011
Published: 29 June 2012
Issue date: March 2012

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The authors acknowledge the financial support for this work from China-Ukraine Inter-governmental S&T Cooperation by Ministry of Science and Technology of China (CU08-15).

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