Thank you very much all of you.



From: Theodora Leventouri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Hydroxiapatite, carboapatite and fluorapatite - Request of
Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:59:12 -0400

Dear all,

Here are some papers on Rietveld refinement of neutron powder diffraction patterns of natural, synthetic and substituted apatites:

1. "Neutron powder diffraction studies of silicon substituted hydroxyapatite", Th. Leventouri, C. E. Bunaciu, V. Perdikatsis, J. Biomat. 24, 4205-11 (2003). 2. "A Comparison of Crystal Structure Parameters of Natural and Synthetic Apatites from Neutron Powder Diffraction", Th. Leventouri, B. C. Chakoumakos, N. Papanearchou, V. Perdikatsis, J. Mat. Res. 16, 2600-06 (2001). 3. "Powder neutron diffraction studies of a carbonate fluorapatite", Th. Leventouri, B. C. Chakoumakos, H. Y. Moghaddam, V. Perdikatsis, J. Mat. Res. 15, 511-7 (2000).

and a relevant:
Synthetic and Biological Hydroxyapatites: Crystal Structure Questions ", Th. Leventouri, J. Biomat. 27, 3339-3342, (2006).



Try searching PubMed for materials such as apatites with biological/medical interest eg "Rietveld structure refinement of precipitated carbonate apatite using neutron diffraction data". Wilson RM, Elliott JC, Dowker SE, Smith RI. (2004) Biomaterials. 25(11), 2205-13.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=14741636&dopt=Citation

According to the above, carbonate replaces some of the phosphate resulting in average shrinking of these tetrahedra. They also located what might be the water from their neutron refinement, which you won't see if you are using X-rays :-)

Alan.

At 03:57 23/05/2007, Leandro Bravo wrote:
I´m refining a sample which contains a hydroxycarbofluorapatite (solid solution). I´m refining it using CIF files from the ICSD, but it´s not working so well, because they don´t have the file for the hydroxycarbofluorapatite. So I´m using in the TOPAS the following files: fluorapatite, carbofluorapatite, hydroxyfluorapatite and hydroxyapatite. When using them the rwp is about 16 but when using only the hydroxyapatite the rwp is 30. I´d would like to know if any of you have very good quality STR files of hydroxyapatite, fluorapatite and carboapatite, or only one file of hydroxycarbofluorapatite?!

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