Hydrogen-substituted β-tricalcium phosphate synthesized in organic media
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2016-12
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β-Tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP) platelets synthesized in ethylene glycol offer interesting geometries for nano-structured composite bone substitutes but were never crystallographically analyzed. In this study, powder X-ray diffraction and Rietveld refinement revealed a discrepancy between the platelet structure and the known β-TCP crystal model. In contrast, a model featuring partial H for Ca substitution and the inversion of P1O4 tetrahedra, adopted from the whitlockite structure, allowed for a refinement with minimal misfits and was corroborated by HPO42− absorptions in Fourier-transform IR spectra. The Ca/P ratio converged to 1.443 ± 0.003 (n = 36), independently of synthesis conditions. As a quantitative verification, the platelets were thermally decomposed into hydrogen-free β-TCP and β-calcium pyrophosphate which resulted in a global Ca/P ratio in close agreement with the initial β-TCP Ca/P ratio (ΔCa/P = 0.003) and with the chemical composition measured by inductively coupled plasma (ΔCa/P = 0.003). These findings thus describe for the first time a hydrogen-substituted β-TCP structure, i.e. a Mg-free whitlockite, represented by the formula Ca21 − x(HPO4)2x(PO4)14 − 2x, where x = 0.80 ± 0.04, and may have implications for resorption properties of bone regenerative materials.
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72 (6)
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875 - 884
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Wiley-Blackwell
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β-tricalcium phosphate; Whitlockite; Calcium deficiency; X-ray; Diffraction; Rietveld refinement; Bone substitute