Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Hydrothermal Synthesis of Tobermorite Fibers through Calcium Chelated Complex

HUANG Xiang; JIANG Dong-Liang; TAN Shou-Hong   

  1. State Key Laboratory of High Performance Ceramics and Superfine Microstructure; Shanghai Institute of Ceramics; Chinese Academy of Sciences; Shanghai 200050; China
  • Received:2001-12-28 Revised:2002-03-08 Published:2003-01-20 Online:2003-01-20

Abstract: Due to its good bioactivity, calcium silicate is potentially a candidate in the biomedicine field. A novel method for synthesizing tobermorite fibers was developed. Tobermorite fibers can be synthesized successfully by the hydrothermal reaction at 200℃ for 5h using a Ca(II)-EDTA complex precursor. Tobermorite fibers obtained in the present work were 40-100μm in length and 0.1-1μm in diameter. The properties of tobermorite fibers were characterized by XRD, SEM techniques. And the formation mechanism was proposed.

Key words: tobermorite fibers, calcium chelated complex, hydrothermal synthesis, bioactive

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