1. Effect of dilute gelatine on the ultrasonic thermally assisted synthesis of nano hydroxyapatite.
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Brundavanam RK, Jiang ZT, Chapman P, Le XT, Mondinos N, Fawcett D, and Poinern GE
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- Chemical Precipitation, Crystallography, X-Ray, Microscopy, Electron, Scanning, Particle Size, Spectroscopy, Fourier Transform Infrared, Durapatite chemical synthesis, Durapatite chemistry, Gelatin chemistry, Nanostructures chemistry, Temperature, Ultrasonics
- Abstract
A series of nano hydroxyapatite-gelatine composites with different dilute solutions of gelatine concentrations were synthesized by a thermally assisted low-power ultrasonic irradiation method. The gelatine hydroxyapatite, (Gel-HAP) nanoparticles were prepared using Ca(NO(3))(2) and KH(2)PO(4) in the presence of gelatine in an aqueous solution. The synthesised products were heat treated between 100 and 400°C. The effect of the addition of gelatine on the nucleation and growth of synthesised nano HAP was investigated. Characterisation was performed using X-ray diffraction (XRD), field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR). The characterisation results indicate that gelatine has been appended to the nano HAP forming regular spherical shaped crystals of nano sized Gel-HAP., (Copyright © 2010. Published by Elsevier B.V.)
- Published
- 2011
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