Authors: Joughehdoust, S.; Behnamghader, A.; Jahandideh, R.; Manafi, S.

Source: Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Volume 10, Number 4, April 2010 , pp. 2892-2896(5)

Publisher: American Scientific Publishers

Abstract:

Synthetic hydroxyapatite (HA) has been recognized as one of the most important bone substitute materials in orthopaedics and dentistry over past few decades because of its chemical and biological similarity to the mineral phase of human bone. One solution for reduction the solubility of HA in biological environments is replacing F⁻ by OH⁻ in HA structure and forming fluor-hydroxyapatite (FHA) solid solution. In this paper, FHA nanoparticles were successfully synthesized by a sol-gel method. Also, the influence of aging temperature on formation of FHA powder was studied. Equimolar solutions of calcium nitrate tetrahydrate, triethyl phosphite and ammonium fluoride in ethanol were used as Ca, P and F precursors. After aging at different temperatures, the synthesized powders were heat treated at 550 °C. The powders were investigated with X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), selected area electron diffraction pattern (SAED), energy dispersive analysis of X-ray (EDAX) and zetasizer measurement. The results of XRD proved the presence of fluorapatite (FA) and HA in all samples. In addition, the formation of FHA was confirmed by FT-IR results. XRD studies also showed that the crystallites were in nanometric scale. At the same time, this result was in good agreement with the result of zetasizer analysis.

Keywords: AGING TEMPERATURE; FLUOR-HYDROXYAPATITE; SOL-GEL; NANOPARTICLES; NANOSTRUCTURE

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jnn.2010.1397

Publication date: 2010-04-01

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