abstract
Hydroxyapatite (HAp) has structural features that define its basic physical properties, which have an important role at the surface, and it is one of the most used materials in bone implants. In this work, we present a density functional modeling (DFT) study of HAp both as bulk and with special HAp models with various defects, especially oxygen vacancies in HAp surface layers, which can also determine photocatalytic properties, confirmed experimentally. The first-principles calculations of bulk and modified HAp were carried out using local basis (AIMPRO) and plane-wave (VASP) codes. Data obtained are analyzed using both approaches, and compared.
keywords
PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATION
subject category
Materials Science; Physics
authors
Bystrov, VS; Paramonova, EV; Dekhtyar, YD; Bystrova, AV; Pullar, RC; Kopyl, S; Tobaldi, DM; Piccirillo, C; Avakyan, LA; Coutinho, J
our authors
Groups
G2 - Photonic, Electronic and Magnetic Materials
G4 - Renewable Materials and Circular Economy
acknowledgements
The authors wish to acknowledge the Russian Foundation for Basic Researches (grant 15-01-04924). RCP and JC acknowledge financial support from the Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT) via grants No. SFRH/BPD/97115/2013 and UID/CTM/50025/2013, respectively.