Interfacial Interactions between Calcined Hydroxyapatite Nanocrystals and Substrates

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• 作者：Masahiro Okada ; Keiko Furukawa ; Takeshi Serizawa ; Yoshihiko Yanagisawa ; Hidekazu Tanaka ; Tomoji Kawai ; Tsutomu Furuzono
• 刊名：Langmuir
• 出版年：2009
• 出版时间：June 2, 2009
• 年：2009
• 卷：25
• 期：11
• 页码：6300-6306
• 全文大小：1018K
• 年卷期：v.25,no.11(June 2, 2009)
• ISSN：1520-5827

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Interfacial interactions between calcined hydroxyapatite (HAp) nanocrystals and surface-modified substrates were investigated by measuring adsorption behavior and adhesion strength with a quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) and a contact-mode atomic force microscope (AFM), respectively. The goal was to develop better control of HAp-nanocrystal coatings on biomedical materials. HAp nanocrystals with rodlike or spherical morphology were prepared by a wet chemical process followed by calcination at 800 °C with an antisintering agent to prevent the formation of sintered polycrystals. The substrate surface was modified by chemical reaction with a low-molecular-weight compound, or graft polymerization with a functional monomer. QCM measurement showed that the rodlike HAp nanocrystals adsorbed preferentially onto anionic COOH-modified substrates compared to cationic NH₂- or hydrophobic CH₃-modified substrates. On the other hand, the spherical nanocrystals adsorbed onto NH₂- and COOH-modified substrates, which indicates that the surface properties of the HAp nanocrystals determined their adsorption behavior. The adhesion strength, which was estimated from the force required to move the nanocrystal in contact-mode AFM, on a COOH-grafted substrate prepared by graft polymerization was almost 9 times larger than that on a COOH-modified substrate prepared by chemical reaction with a low-molecular-weight compound, indicating that the long-chain polymer grafted on the substrate mitigated the surface roughness mismatch between the nanocrystal and the substrate. The adhesion strength of the nanocrystal bonded covalently by the coupling reaction to a Si(OCH₃)-grafted substrate prepared by graft polymerization was approximately 1.5 times larger than that when adsorbed on the COOH-grafted substrate.