Magnesium influence on hydroxyapatite crystallization
Abstract
X-ray diffraction, infrared absorption, and chemical investigations have been carried out on hydroxyapatite synthesized in the presence of different magnesium concentrations in solution.
Magnesium inhibits the crystallization of hydroxyapatite through a reduction of Ca/P molar ratio and crystal sizes of apatite. The reduction of the crystal sizes is also very great for very low magnesium content and increases on increasing magnesium concentration in solution up to 35 Mg atom percent with respect to the total metal ions. The samples are completely amorphous between 35 and 50 Mg atom percent. For higher magnesium concentration different crystalline phases are formed. The results of the x-ray powder pattern fitting indicate that the HA crystal structure at most hosts magnesium amounts of about seven percent. Magnesium substitutes only the calcium atoms which form the channels containing the hydroxy ions. Since magnesium content is much smaller than that found in the solid phase, the greatest amount of magnesium must not be lattice bound. The extent of hydroxyapatite conversion into magnesium substituted β-tricalcium phosphate on heat treatment appears strongly related to magnesium content of the apatitic solid phase.
On the basis of these results, the key role of magnesium on the crystallization, crystal growth, and thermal stability of hydroxyapatite has been used to explain the relevant properties of biological apatites.
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