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INFLUENCE OF YOLK ADDITION ON PROTEIN FOAMINGCONSOLIDATION POROUS ALUMINA CONTAINING HYDROXYAPATITE NANOPOWDER
(2014-05-21) Fadli, Ahmad; Komalasari; Alfarisi, Cory Dian
Present paper reports the influence of yolk addition on physical properties of porous aluminahydroxyapatite composites prepared using protein foaming-consolidation method. Alumina and hydroxyapatite (HA) powders were mixed with yolk at an adjusted mass ratio to make slurries. The slurries were cast into molds and the dried for foaming- consolidation process. The dried bodies were burned at 600ºC for 1 hour, followed by sintering at temperature of 1550ºC for 2 hours. The addition of yolk into the slurry shifted the rheological properties from shear thinning behavior to a Newtonian fluid and resulted in bigger foaming capacity. The porous alumina-HA composites with shrinkages in the range of 43.3 vol.% – 58.4 vol.% were obtained. The shrinkage of bodies increased with increasing concentration of yolk. The compressive strength was 7.5 MPa at 44.6% porosity 2.6 MPa at 57% porosity