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JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE
Volume 35, Issue 11, Pages 2791-2797Publisher
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DOI: 10.1023/A:1004738900778
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Biomaterials, in particular those used for orthopaedic prostheses, consist of a metallic substrate, exhibiting excellent mechanical properties, coated with a ceramic layer, which guarantees resistance to the corrosion and an elevated bioactivity. In this paper the preparation of sol-gel films of hydroxyapatite, HA (Ca-10(PO4)(6)(OH)(2)), on titanium substrate is described. The samples were obtained through the dip-coating method, starting from a colloidal suspension of hydroxyapatite. In order to increase the adhesion between the HA film and the metallic substrate, the same substrate has been preliminarily coated either with titanium oxide, TiO2 (in the anatase or rutile phase), or calcium titanate, CaTiO3 (perovskite). Also these latter films have been deposited from a sol-gel solution. The characterization of the films through XRD, SEM, and AFM gave good results for the crystallinity of the deposited HA; for what concerns the sample morphology, the films turned out to be homogeneous and crack-free. (C) 2000 Kluwer Academic Publishers.
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