Environmentally friendly growth of calcium chlorapatite whiskers from a sodium chloride flux

Katsuya Teshima; Kunio Yubuta; Satoru Ooi; Takaomi Suzuki; Toetsu Shishido; Shuji Oishi

doi:10.1021/cg0603671

Environmentally friendly growth of calcium chlorapatite whiskers from a sodium chloride flux

Katsuya Teshima, Kunio Yubuta, Satoru Ooi, Takaomi Suzuki, Toetsu Shishido, Shuji Oishi

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Environmentally friendly, high-quality, and transparent-colorless calcium chlorapatite (Ca₅Cl(PO₄)₃) whiskers were selectively fabricated by rapid cooling of a sodium chloride flux. The crystal growth was conducted by heating a mixture of solute ((NH₄) ₂HPO₄, CaCl₂, and CaCO₃) and flux (NaCl) at 1100°C, holding at this temperature for 10 h, and then cooling it at a rate of 5-200°C h^-1 to 500°C. The grown crystals were divided into two morphological types, that is, needle and prismatic shapes. The Ca₅Cl(PO₄)₃ whiskers obtained average lengths up to 4.2 mm and widths up to 130 μm. Their form was a hexagonal {1010} cylinder with pyramidal {1011} end faces. The crystal forms and average sizes obviously depended on the cooling rate of the high-temperature solution. The formation ratio of the whiskers was increased with cooling rate, reaching much higher than 80 wt % at 200°C h^-1 in all growth runs. It is found that Ca₅Cl(PO₄)₃ whiskers were predominantly grown by controlling the cooling rate. Finally, NaCl was found to be a very suitable flux for an environmentally friendly growth of Ca₅Cl(PO ₄)₃ whiskers.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	2538-2542
Number of pages	5
Journal	Crystal Growth and Design
Volume	6
Issue number	11
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1021/cg0603671
Publication status	Published - Nov 2006
Externally published	Yes

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Condensed Matter Physics

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