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MICROPOROUS AND MESOPOROUS MATERIALS
Volume 118, Issue 1-3, Pages 480-488Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.micromeso.2008.09.024
Keywords
Mesopore; Hydroxycarbonate apatite; Calcium carbonate; Dissolution-precipitation reaction
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- New Century Excellent Talents in University [NCET-04-0327]
- Excellent Team in Harbin Institute of Technology
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Mesoporous hydroxycarbonate apatite (MHCAp) was converted directly from calcium carbonate particles by treatment with a phosphate buffer solution (PBS). After soaking in PBS, the calcium ions are released from CaCO3 particles and react with phosphate ions to form hydroxycarbonate apatite nanoparticles. The aggregation of the nanoparticles not only produces apatite plates, but also forms mesopores within the plates. The phases of CaCO3 play an important role in the conversion rate because of the different solubility products. If the main phase is vaterite, CaCO3 particles are converted completely to MHCAp after soaking in PBS for 24 h. However, if the main phase is calcite, the percentage of the unreacted CaCO3 particles is similar to 19.7%. In addition, the conversion percentages of MHCAp increase with prolonging immersion time in PBS and increasing temperatures. The most of pore sizes of MHCAp are distributed around 4.1 +/- 0.3 nm, which are not affected by the experimental conditions such as the phases of calcium carbonate, immersion time (6-24 h) and temperatures (25-50 degrees C). Simulated body fluid (SBF) immersion tests reveal that MHCAp, exhibits a superior in vitro bone-forming bioactivity. It is hypothesized that the conversion mechanism of CaCO3 to MHCAp may be rationalized in terms of a dissolution-precipitation process. (C) 2008 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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