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J Dent Res 76(4): 905-912, April, 1997
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3000
2000
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u-
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, I I I
0 100 200 300 400
t (h)
Figure 2. Intensity of some a-TCP, 13-TCP, and CDHA peaks as a
function of the reaction time of the cement.
12l00 I I I Table 1. Selected peaks for oa-TCP, ,B-TCP, and apatite (JCPDS
cards: ot-TCP, 29-359; f8-TCP, 9-169; apatite, 9-432)
1000
'64 -360h
Phase 20 ( h 1/1100
800
12.10 131,031 39
g600 16h 14.02 201 15
a-TCP 15.16 132 11
-° 400 22.20 201 24
24.10 161,331 33
200 30.74 034,434 100
0 2h ,B-TCP 27.80 214 55
a
31.02 2 0 10,2 1 7 100
0,0 0,1 0,2 0,3
displacement (mm) apatite 49.44 213 40
Figure 3. Load-displacement curves for a compression test of the
cement after immersion in Ringer's solution at 37°C during 1, 2, 4,
8, 16, 32, 64, and 360 hrs. in which w and M are the weight fractions and the mass
absorption coefficients, respectively. In this case, phases 1, 2, and
paste was used to fill cylindrical holes in a Teflon mold which 3 were a-TCP,,-TCP, and apatite, respectively. The values of the
had a diameter of 10 mm and a height of 5 mm. After 15 min, mass absorption coefficients were calculated to be (Cullity, 1978):
the samples were demolded and immersed in Ringer's solution
at 37°C for either 15 or 30 min or 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, or 360 hrs M1= M2 = 86.43 cm2/g (2)
(15 days) from the mixing of powder and liquid. For each
period, 6 samples were prepared. M3 = 84.97 cm2/g (3)
After removal of the samples from the Ringer's solution,
they were frozen in liquid nitrogen to stop the reaction. Water Since pure a-TCP could not be obtained, the calculation of w1 with
was then removed by freeze-drying in a lyophilizer type the use of a-TCP peaks was performed using the ot-TCP/0-TCP
ALPHA 1-4 connected to a control unit LDC-1 (Martin Christ mixture with known composition as a standard. For this mixture,
GmbH) for 15 hrs to prevent further reaction. Subsequently, 4 eq. (1) can be written as
samples for each series were crushed and then investigated with
x-ray diffraction (XRD) and infrared spectroscopy (IR). The l,initial Mlwl,initial (4)
remaining two samples were not crushed but were fractured so Il,o Wl,initiaiM, + (1 - wl,initiadM2
that the microstructure could be investigated with scanning
electron microscopy (SEM). with wnlitial the weight fraction of cx-TCP in the a-TCP/P-TCP
mixture and I iiitial the intensity of the a-TCP peak hkl in the same
mixture. The combination of equations (1), (2), and (4) then yields:
X-ray diffraction
X-ray diffraction patterns were recorded by step-scanning in a I, = M1w1 (5)
microprocessor-controlled diffractometer system (Philips PW- Il,initial wl,initial(Ml M3)(wl + w2) + M3J
-
Discussion
XRD, IR, SEM, and compressive strength
deteminations gave complementary
information about the setting mechanism
and the transformation occurring during
T this setting: oa-TCP particles dissolve into the
r
a cement liquid, and CDHA crystals are
n formed by precipitation from that liquid.
a
m The stoichiometry of the transformation can
t be depicted as:
t
t 3 a-Ca3(I4)2 + H20 -* Ca9(HPO4)(P04)50H (9)
a
n
c This mechanism is quite different from that
S
of mixtures of monetite (CaHPO4) and
tetracalcium phosphate [Ca4(P04)20], when
mixed in a 2:1 ratio with the intention to
form CDHA. As shown by Brown et al.
(1991), the first step of the mechanism
consists of the reaction of half of the monetite
with the tetracalcium phosphate according to
O- -
V .;'
1W I
Figure 6. SEM pictures of the cement after different times of reaction: (a) after 15 min; (b) after 1 hr; (c) after 4 hrs; (d) after 8 hrs; (e) aftcr 64
hrs; (f) after 360 hrs.
level. This decrease of the reaction rate as a function of time of our cement, as shown in Figs. 6(a) through (f), shows a
is correlated with the surrounding of the oc-TCP particles by strong resemblance to that of tricalcium silicate hydrolysis
layers of CDHA, as was indicated in the SEM pictures. This (Ginebra et al., 1995), in which the larger tricalcium silicate
kind of behavior is also observed in the hydrolysis of particles are surrounded by a dense layer of re-precipitate.
tricalcium silicate. In fact, the evolution of the microstructure Such a layer retards the further reaction (Brown, 1989).
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