Journal of Inorganic Materials

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Phase Transition of Synthesizing Tetracalcium Phosphate in a Solid-state Reaction

GUO Da-Gang; XU Ke-Wei; HAN Yong   

  1. State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Behavior of Materials; Xi an Jiaotong University; Xi an 710049; China
  • Received:2004-03-26 Revised:2004-06-25 Published:2005-03-20 Online:2005-03-20

Abstract: The phase transition course of synthesizing tetracalcium phosphate in a solid-state reaction was investigated
by TGA-DSC, XRD and FTIR. The results show that the phase transformations occurring over 1200℃ are consistence with the high temperature phase
diagram of CaO-P2O5-H2O. In view of lack of the low temperature phase diagram, the phase transitions below 1200℃ can offer significant
data to draw it; understanding the whole course of phase evolution contributes to optimum the synthesizing process to get pure TTCP, the most important
biomaterial in the field of calcium phosphate cement.

Key words: tetracalcium phosphate, solid-state phase reaction, phase transitions, bioceramic

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