Spectroscopic investigations of nanohydroxyapatite powders synthesized by conventional and ultrasonic coupled sol-gel routes.

In the present work, the synthesis and characterization of nano-HAP powders by a novel ultrasonic coupled sol-gel synthesis is reported. The obtained powders were sintered by conventional means at different temperatures. In addition to this, HAP powders prepared through the sol-gel method without the aid of the ultrasonic waves is also studied. The obtained nano-HAP powders were characterized by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD) and scanning electron microscopic (SEM) techniques. The results have proved that the nano-HAP powders synthesized by ultrasonic coupled sol-gel synthesis showed remarkable reduction in the particle size when compared with the conventional sol-gel method and hence these powders could be used as a coating material in biomedical applications.