Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticle Coating on Polymer for Constructing Effective Biointeractive Interfaces

Figure 1

(a) Crystal structure of HAp in the top view along with the -axis, which were centered on the hexagonal -axis channel and (b) the overview structure to exhibit the rich phosphate and hydroxyl ions at the -plane and the calcium ions at the -plane (drawing using VESTA (10) from the CIF obtained from American Mineralogist Crystal Structure Database).

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