Surface modified hydroxyapatites with various functionalized nanostructures: Computational studies of the vacancies in HAp

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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.

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PHOTOCATALYTIC DEGRADATION

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Materials Science; Physics

autores

Bystrov, VS; Paramonova, EV; Dekhtyar, YD; Bystrova, AV; Pullar, RC; Kopyl, S; Tobaldi, DM; Piccirillo, C; Avakyan, LA; Coutinho, J

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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.

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