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POWDER TECHNOLOGY
Volume 209, Issue 1-3, Pages 9-14Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.powtec.2011.01.020
Keywords
Fluorapatite; Gelatin; Hexagonal nanocrystals
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- National Natural Science Foundation of China [30870610, 30800221]
- National Glycoengineering Research Center of Shandong University [NGRC2009F02]
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A biological macromolecule-assisted synthetic route has been developed for the preparation of hexagonal fluorapatite nanocrystals with high crystallinity. In this investigation, we evaluated the resulting mineral habit growth using gelatin as nucleation templates of fluorapatite. Fluorapatite crystals were obtained regardless of the presence of gelatin. The resulting nanocrystals were short (80-150 nm long) and did not grow with time in the absence of gelatin. While in the presence of gelatin, the resulting nanocrystals were shuttle-like and about 400-600 nm long. The dominating microstructures were flower-like and bundle-like arrays consisting of these long fluoraptite nanocrystals. As the reaction time was increased, the shuttle-like fluorapatite nanocrystals grew into hexagonal prisms, which were about 1-3 mu m long. The resulted fluorapatite nanocrystals with gelatin were also found to contain trace amounts of sodium and carbonate ions, originating from the reactants during the synthesis. X-ray diffraction patterns and scanning electron microscope images of the fluorapatite crystals strongly indicate that the fluorapatite nanocrystals self-assembled along the c axis under the present experimental conditions. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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