Abstract
Octacalcium phosphate (OCP) hydrolysis into hydroxyapatite (HA) has been investigated in aqueous solutions at different concentrations of poly- l-aspartate (PASP) and poly- l-glutamate (PGLU). In the absence of the polyelectrolytes, the transformation of OCP into HA is complete in 48 h. Both poly- l-aspartate and poly- l-glutamate inhibit OCP hydrolysis. However, PGLU displays a greater inhibiting effect, as a result of the different extent of phase transformation obtained at the same polyelectrolyte concentration. The inhibition takes place through polyelectrolyte adsorption on the (100) face of OCP crystals, which prevents the splitting of OCP crystals along their c-axis and the transformation into the final very long, needle-like, apatitic crystals.
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