High impact information on Disodium titanate

• During the subsequent in-vitro immersion in a simulated body fluid, the nano-scale sodium titanate, in turn, induced the nucleation and growth nano-dimensioned hydroxyapatite (HAp) phase [1].
• It is shown that the presence of TiO2 nanotubes induces the growth of a "nano-inspired nanostructure", i.e., extremely fine-scale (approximately 8 nm feature) nanofibers of bioactive sodium titanate structure on the top edge of the approximately 15 nm thick nanotube wall [1].
• The sodium titanate induced a bonelike apatite formation in simulated body fluid at an early soaking period, whereby the apatite layer grew uniformly along the surface and cross-sectional macrotextures of the porous titanium [2].
• The results showed that the mechanism of apatite formation was the hydrolysis reaction of sodium titanate which induced the apatite formation [3].

Associations of Disodium titanate with other chemical compounds

• The bioactive titanium metal formed Ti-OH groups soon after soaking in the simulated body fluid, via the exchange of the Na(+) ions in the sodium titanate on its surface with H(3)O(+) ions in the fluid [4].
• The sodium titanate transformed into a hydrated titania via Na+ ion release to induce a bone-like apatite formation on the alloy substrate in a simulated body fluid (SBF) [5].
• Our previous study showed that titanium metal forms a bonelike apatite layer on its surface in simulated body fluid when it was subjected to NaOH and heat treatments to form a sodium titanate hydrogel or amorphous sodium titanate surface layer [6].
• The sodium titanate layer formed Ti-OH groups on its surface by exchanging its Na+ ion with H3O+ ion in simulated body fluid when soaked in the fluid, and thus formed Ti-OH groups induced the apatite nucleation [7].

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