Abstract
Strontium is often substituted for calcium in order to confer radio-opacity in glasses used for dental cements, Biocomposites and bio glass-ceramics. The present paper investigates the influence of substituting strontium for calcium in a glass of the following composition: 4.5SiO23Al2O 31.5P2O53CaO2CaF2, having a Ca:P ratio of 1.67 corresponding to calcium fluorapatite (Ca5(PO 4)3F). The glasses were characterized by magic angle spinning nuclear magnetic resonance (MAS-NMR), by differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) and X-ray powder diffraction (XRD). The 29Si, 27Al and 31P NMR spectra for the glasses with different strontium contents were identical. The 19F spectra indicated the presence of F-Ca(n) and Al-F-Ca(n) species in the calcium glasses and in the strontium glasses F-Sr(n) and Al-F-Sr(n). It can be concluded that strontium substitutes for calcium with little change in the glass structure as a result of their similar charge to size ratio. The low strontium glasses bulk nucleated to a calcium apatite phase. Intermediate strontium content glasses surface nucleated to a mixed calcium-strontium apatite and the fully strontium substituted glass to strontium fluorapatite. © 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Recommended Citation
R. G. Hill et al., "The Influence of Strontium Substitution in Fluorapatite Glasses and Glass-Ceramics," Journal of Non-Crystalline Solids, vol. 336, no. 3, pp. 223 - 229, Elsevier, May 2004.
The definitive version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jnoncrysol.2004.02.005
Department(s)
Chemical and Biochemical Engineering
International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)
0022-3093
Document Type
Article - Journal
Document Version
Final Version
File Type
text
Language(s)
English
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© 2023 Elsevier, All rights reserved.
Publication Date
15 May 2004
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