Research Article
Atomistic Simulation of Intrinsic Defects and Trivalent and Tetravalent Ion Doping in Hydroxyapatite
Table 4
Solution energy of intrinsic disorder in hydroxyapatite (eV/defect).
| Type | Site | Defect equation | Solution energy |
| Frenkel | Ca | | 3.75 | P | | 16.38 | O | | 4.46 | OH | | 6.99 |
| Schottky | Total | | 4.77 | Ca | | 3.14 | P | | 8.01 |
| Anti-Schottky | Total | | 7.65 |
| Schemes (i) | Ca | | −0.71 | Schemes (ii) |
Ca | | 38.62 |
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