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Hydroxyapatite powders were made by reacting orthophosphoric acid with calcium hydroxide and dense bioactive coatings were subsequently produced by the plasma spray technique. Three types of hydroxyapatite (flame spheroidized) monolayer coatings and three types of functionally graded coatings were manufactured. It was found that average microhardness values of monolayer coatings decreased as the indentation load increased. The relationship between indentation load and indent diagonal length observed Meyer's law. Microhardness and fracture toughness of coatings were affected by characteristics of feedstock powders for plasma spraying. The indentation fracture toughness of coatings could be significantly increased by incorporating a toughening phase. ©1999 Kluwer Academic Publishers
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Wang, M., Yang, X.Y., Khor, K.A. et al. Preparation and characterization of bioactive monolayer and functionally graded coatings. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine 10, 269–273 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1008901428552
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