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Near-net-shaped calcium hydroxyapatite by the oxidation of machinable, calcium-bearing precursors (the volume identical metal oxidation, or VIMOX, process)

  • Eaden Saw
  • , Ken H. Sandhage
  • , Patrick K. Gallagher
  • , Alan S. Litsky

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Abstract

A novel VIMOX (volume identical metal oxidation) route to near-net-shaped calcium hydroxyapatite, Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2, is demonstrated: the oxidation of machinable Ca-Ca2P2O7 precursors. Mechanically alloyed mixtures of Ca and β-Ca2P2O7 were compacted into disk- and bar-shaped preforms. The latter preforms could be machined into cylinders using a metalworking lathe (200 rpm, hardened steel tooling). After oxidation at 600 °C in O2, and then postoxidation annealing in H2O/O2 mixtures at 850 °C and 1150 °C, phase-pure hydroxyapatite was obtained. Because of offsetting volume changes from calcium oxidation and hydroxyapatite formation, porous hydroxyapatite bodies were produced that retained the shapes and dimensions (within 1%) of the machined precursors.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)998-1000
Number of pages3
JournalJournal of the American Ceramic Society
Volume83
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000

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