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A comparative study between hydroxyapatite coatings produced by two different techniques, plasma spray (PS) and pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) was carried out. Plasma spray is currently commercially used for coating dental and orthopaedical implant devices, and pulsed-laser deposition (or laser-ablation deposition) gave good results in the field of high critical temperature superconductive thin films, and is being applied to produce calcium phosphate coatings for biomedical purposes. X-ray diffraction was used to control the crystallinity of the coatings, scanning electron microscopy for the surface and cross-sectional morphology, and the pull test to determine the tensile strength of the coatings. This study reveals that the pulsed-laser deposition technique appears to be a very good candidate to replace the plasma spray in many biomedical applications, because it overcomes most of the drawbacks of the plasma spray.
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GARCIA-SANZ, F.J., MAYOR, M.B., ARIAS, J.L. et al. Hydroxyapatite coatings: a comparative study between plasma-spray and pulsed laser deposition techniques. Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Medicine 8, 861–865 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1018549720873
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