TY  - JOUR
AU  - Meiszterics, Anikó
AU  - Havancsák, Károly
AU  - Sinkó, Katalin
TI  - Catalysis, nanostructure and macroscopic property triangle in bioactive calcium-containing ceramic systems
JO  - Materials science and engineering / C
VL  - 33
IS  - 3
SN  - 0928-4931
CY  - Amsterdam
PB  - Elsevier
M1  - DESY-2014-02149
SP  - 1371 - 1379
PY  - 2013
N1  - © Elsevier B.V.
AB  - Calcium silicate ceramics are intended for application as long-term implant materials. In the present work, attention was paid to understand the correlations between the nanostructure (aggregate size, crystallinity, porosity) and the macroscopic properties (solubility in water and simulated body fluids, SBF; hardness) varying the chemical composition. Varying the catalyst (from a base to various acids) during the chemical synthesis was shown to significantly impact on the pore size, crystallinity and mechanical properties. The basic catalyst yields the ceramics with the highest mechanical strength. Ammonia used in 1.0 or 10.0 molar ratio results in bulk ceramics with parameters required for a biomedical application, good hardness (180–200 HV) and low solubility (1–3
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000315751600049
C6  - pmid:23827584
DO  - DOI:10.1016/j.msec.2012.12.038
UR  - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/167823
ER  -