Title
Nd:YAG (532 nm) pulsed laser deposition produces crystalline hydroxyapatite thin coatings at room temperature
Date Issued
25 November 2017
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Centro Brasileiro de Pesquisas Físicas
Publisher(s)
Elsevier B.V.
Abstract
Nd:YAG (532 nm) pulsed laser deposition (PLD) has been used to produce crystalline hydroxyapatite (HAP) coatings at room temperature onto silicon substrates. The PLD HAP coatings were homogeneous (100.4 nm RMS roughness) and consisted of micrometric particles (> 10 μm) coalesced over a nanometric dense layer. The deposition parameters of 532 nm laser, 30 J/cm2 fluence, 10− 4 Pa vacuum environment and room temperature are capable of coating any surface with crystalline HAP without requiring heat treatment. It was confirmed by Synchrotron Radiation Grazing Angle X-ray Diffraction (GAXRD) patterns that the nanocrystalline component present in the coatings was reduced and did not hide peaks of decomposition to other calcium phosphate (CaP) phases when in situ heat treatments of 200 °C and 800 °C were performed. The use of dense and stoichiometric HAP targets that could withstand the high-fluence laser allowed producing 150 nm crystalline HAP coatings in only 5 min of deposition time, although 532 nm laser wavelength is outside the absorption range of the HAP. This contribution opens the perspective to produce controlled PLD HAP coating over thermally sensitive substrates with reduced processing time for large-scale production for biomedical applications. As a demonstration, HAP coating was deposited and characterized on thermal sensitive bioabsorbable polylactide (PLA) surfaces.
Start page
174
End page
183
Volume
329
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Ingeniería médica
Biotecnología relacionada con la salud
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85029814760
Source
Surface and Coatings Technology
ISSN of the container
02578972
Sponsor(s)
The authors thank the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq – Brazil), the Brazilian Synchrotron Light Laboratory (LNLS/CNPEM –Brazil) and the Multiuser Laboratory Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (LABNANO/CBPF – Brazil) for their kind support. Authors also thank Cilene Labre, Francisco de Assis, Thiago Palhares and Luisa Scudeller for their support in equipment training; Prof. Gilberto Weissmuller for the AFM images and Prof. Alexandre Rossi, as well his LABIOMAT team, for the hydroxyapatite micrometric powder supply, without it this work was not be possible to be made. F. F. Borghi acknowledges the support from the Science Without Frontiers Program of the Brazilian Government.
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