Chemistry Letters, Vol.35, No.11, 1220-1221, 2006
Preparation of monetite (CaHPO4) with hexagonally packed mesoporous structure by a sol-gel method using cationic surfactant aggregates as a template
We first-successfully fabricated mesoporous calcium phosphates by a regular sol-gel method using cationic surfactant aggregates as a template. Low-angle XRD and TEM observation indicated that a product included hexagonally packed mesoporous structure. Wide-angle XRD and FT-IR observation identified the product as monetite (CaHPO4), which is one of calcium phosphates.