title: Preparation and characterization of biphasic calcium phosphate ceramics of desired composition.
abstract: A modified processing route for fabricating dense and porous biphasic calcium phosphate (BCP) ceramics of desired and reproducible phase composition (hydroxyapatite (HA)/beta-tricalcium phosphate (beta-TCP) ratio) has been developed. The principal idea of the route was combining a precipitation and a solid phase methods. First, a nonstoichiometric (slightly carbonated calcium-deficient) HA (CdHA) precipitate was synthesized by mixing a calcium carbonate (CaCO(3)) water suspension with an orthophosphoric acid (H(3)PO(4)) solution in abundance (related to the amount resulting in a stoichiometric HA) under definite conditions, and a powder of the precipitate was prepared and calcinated in air (860 degrees C, 1.5 h). In the second stage, a BCP ceramics of the composition determined by the calcium-deficiency in a calcinated powder (the acid abundance in a mixture) was processed by sintering powder compacts with or without a porosizer under appropriate conditions (1,200 degrees C, 2h). A calibrating dependence of the HA/beta-TCP ratio in the ceramics on the acid abundance has been plotted which enabled a controlled preparation of BCP ceramics. A correlation based on unresolved bands in nu(4)-PO (4) (3-) domain in IR-spectra of nanostructured BCP materials was found. Using the correlation, the process of CdHA --> beta-TCP transformation could be easily monitored. The density and microhardness of the BCP ceramics neglectly depended on the composition, however, the compressive strength did: the lower the HA/beta-TCP ratio, the higher the strength in the dense materials.
authors.affiliation: Physics of Solids Department, Physics Faculty, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 4 Svoboda Square, Kharkiv 61077, Ukraine. intercom@univer.kharkov.ua
authors.forename: Z Z
authors.initials: ZZ
authors.lastname: Zyman
authors.forename: M V
authors.initials: MV
authors.lastname: Tkachenko
authors.forename: D V
authors.initials: DV
authors.lastname: Polevodin
mesh_terms: D002130:Calcium Phosphates / Q000138:chemical synthesis* / Q000737:chemistry; D002516:Ceramics; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D013055:Spectrophotometry, Infrared; D014961:X-Ray Diffraction
chemical_list: D002130:Calcium Phosphates; C020243:calcium phosphate