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The Nature of the Nonsingularity of Inner Interfaces in Hydroxyapatite Ceramics

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The morphology of inner interfaces in hydroxyapatite (HA) based calcium phosphate ceramics has been studied by transmission electron microscopy. Grain boundaries in the ceramics have been shown to have a vicinal character, which is related to the mechanism of secondary recrystallization in the material: layer growth of grains via sequential motion of elementary steps on planes corresponding to the \(\{ 1\bar 100\} \) HA prism faces, which grow through transitions of atoms from adjacent grains that are in contact through their planes with large Miller indices. The recrystallization process may be accompanied by a “collision” of vicinal growth surfaces of grains with relatively large misalignment angles and the formation of grain boundaries nanofaceted by prism planes of adjacent grains. The recrystallization process in such a case should be expected to continue in the grain with a smaller nonsingularity of the growth front. Grain boundaries may allow for a match between planes differing in Miller indices, ndh1k1l1 ≈ mdh2k2l2, and the formation of grain-boundary Pumphrey dislocations, which compensate for the size mismatch between interplanar spacings and/or misalignment of the planes. The observed characteristic grain match configurations are typical of both ceramics produced by sintering HA powders and HA films produced by ion sputtering.

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Original Russian Text © V.M. Ievlev, A.V. Kostyuchenko, 2018, published in Neorganicheskie Materialy, 2018, Vol. 54, No. 7, pp. 756–764.

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Ievlev, V.M., Kostyuchenko, A.V. The Nature of the Nonsingularity of Inner Interfaces in Hydroxyapatite Ceramics. Inorg Mater 54, 716–723 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1134/S002016851807004X

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