The Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology Group (GNano) at the University of São Paulo's São Carlos Institute of Physics (IFSC-USP) in Brazil has discovered a way to transform hydroxyapatite, a bioceramic ...
Commercially available hydroxyapatite powders exhibit a high degree of chemical variability. The crystal lattice quite readily undergoes substitutions, with ions such as CO 3 2-, HPO 4 2-and F-often ...
Synthetic hydroxyapatite (HA) is of importance as a biomaterial as it is chemically similar to the mineral component of mammalian bone. As such the human body (and for that matter, the bodies of other ...