Abstract

Experimental reports have indicated that octacalcium phosphate and hydroxyapatite produce an interface, which seems to be quite important for some mechanisms of nucleation and crystal growth in the field of biomaterials. Theoretical analyses have generated three models about the way this interface could be built. However, so far the proposed models and the experimental images have not completely matched. In this work we comment on some structural arrangements for this interface deduced from the proposed models and arrangements deduced from the experimental high resolution electron microscope images.