Metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) of bone mineral like carbonated hydroxyapatite coatings

Darr, J.A. and Guo, Z.X. and Raman, V. and Bououdina, M. and Rehman, I.U. (2004) Metal organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) of bone mineral like carbonated hydroxyapatite coatings. Chemical Communications, 10 (6). pp. 696-697. ISSN 1359-7345

Abstract

For the first time, the MOCVD technique has been used to deposit carbonated hydroxyapatite onto Ti6AL4V substrates using volatile monomeric (liquid) complexes [Ca(β-diketonate)2(L)] and P(OEt) 3.