Abstract
Hydroxyapatite (HAp) crystals were synthesized from gypsum powder with diammonium hydrogen phosphate solution via microwave-hydrothermal treatment at 100°C, and their properties were studied. Gypsum powder could be completely converted to fine HAp crystals 30-300 nm long with 0.5M diammonium hydrogen phosphate at 100°C in 5 min. Compared to the formation of HAp crystals via conventional-hydrothermal treatment, microwave-hydrothermal treatment led to increased rate of formation (by two orders of magnitude).
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 2257-2259 |
| Number of pages | 3 |
| Journal | Journal of the American Ceramic Society |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue number | 8 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1999 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Ceramics and Composites
- Materials Chemistry