期刊
MATERIALS SCIENCE & ENGINEERING C-MATERIALS FOR BIOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS
卷 33, 期 5, 页码 2891-2898出版社
ELSEVIER
DOI: 10.1016/j.msec.2013.03.015
关键词
Hydroxyapatite; Nanocrystalline; Microstructure; XRD; TEM; Mechanical properties
资金
- University Grants Commission (UGC), India
- Dept. of Physics, The University of Burdwan
Single phase nanocrystalline hydroxyapatite (HAp) powder has been synthesized by mechanical alloying the stoichiometric mixture of CaCO3 and CaHPO4 powders in open air at room temperature, for the first time, within 2 h of milling. Nanocrystalline hexagonal single crystals are obtained by sintering of 2 h milled sample at 500 degrees C. Structural and microstructural properties of as-milled and sintered powders are revealed from both the X-ray line profile analysis and transmission electron microscopy. Shape and lattice strain of nanocrystalline HAp particles are found to be anisotropic in nature. Particle size of HAp powder remains almost invariant up to 10 h of milling and there is no significant growth of nanocrystalline HAp particles after sintering at 500 degrees C for 3 h. Changes in lattice volume and some primary bond lengths of as-milled and sintered are critically measured, which indicate that lattice imperfections introduced into the HAp lattice during ball milling have been reduced partially after sintering the powder at elevated temperatures. We could achieve similar to 96.7% of theoretical density of HAp within 3 h by sintering the pellet of nanocrystalline powder at a lower temperature of 1000 degrees C. Vickers microhardness (VHN) of the uni-axially pressed (6.86 MPa) pellet of nanocrystalline HAp is 4.5 GPa at 100 gm load which is close to the VHN of bulk HAp sintered at higher temperature. The strain-hardening index (n) of the sintered pellet is found to be >2, indicating a further increase in microhardness value at higher load. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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