Abstract
Hydroxyapatite (HA) is one of bioceramics which used in many biomedic applications. However, HA has poor mechanical properties. HA has be composited with material which has a good mechanical properties, such as nanosilica. In this study, synthesis HA was prepared by co-precipitation method. Base material to synthesis HA is onyx rock from Bojonegoro which contain 94.33 % Ca. While phosphate obtainable from Ammonium Dihydrogen Phosphate . The vickers hardness result using micro hardness vikers show that adding nanosilica is influence the mechanical properties of HA. The value of vikers hardness at adding nanosilica 10, 20, 30% respectively are 38.2; 42.3; 43.1 HVN while the porosity are 44.4; 40.7; 39.3 %. DOI: https://dx.doi.org/10.17977/um024v1i12016p013
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