Background
The hard tissue transplant material is a composite structure of human organ repair materials and needs to have good biological performance and certain toughness. Hydroxyapatite is often used as a biological coating material for metal surfaces such as titanium alloy and the like due to good biological properties, however, pure hydroxyapatite has the problems of poor mechanical properties, low fracture toughness and bending strength, structural change of components caused by high temperature influence in the preparation process, low bonding strength caused by mismatch of thermal expansion coefficients of the pure hydroxyapatite and a metal substrate, stress cracking and the like, so that the development of coating components, structural design and preparation technology is needed, the generation of phase change, tissue change and harmful phases in the coating formation process is inhibited, the performance difference is alleviated, the residual stress is reduced, the interface bonding of the coating is enhanced, and the regulation and control of the coating tissue structure and the mechanical properties are realized. Meanwhile, researches show that compared with common hydroxyapatite, the nano hydroxyapatite has better adsorption performance and biocompatibility and is very similar to the hydroxyapatite in human bones and teeth in structure and crystal form.
The main methods for preparing the bioceramic coating at present include a bionic method, an ion beam sputtering method, a sol-gel method, a laser cladding method, an electrochemical deposition method, a plasma spraying method and the like. The bionic method and the ion beam sputtering method can realize the component control of the deposited coating, but the process parameters are not easy to control, and the bonding strength of the coating and the metal matrix interface is low. The sol-gel method has the problems of deposition efficiency and influence on the bonding strength and structural integrity of the coating due to shrinkage cracking during drying. The electrochemical deposition has the problems that the component structure of the coating is sensitive to the deposition conditions such as the temperature of electrolyte and the like, the bonding strength is low and sintering cracking occurs. The laser cladding has the problems of high-temperature decomposition and harmful generation of hydroxyapatite and the like. Plasma spraying is a common method for preparing biological ceramic coatings such as hydroxyapatite and the like, vacuum plasma spraying is applied to preparation of a repair biological apatite coating, but the problems of phase change, brittle fracture and the like are easy to occur in a high-temperature process, and the coating with a surface nano structure is not easy to prepare.
Disclosure of Invention
In order to solve the problems, the invention provides a preparation method of a double nano hydroxyapatite/titanium composite gradient coating, which can realize phase structure and component transplantation, is beneficial to controlling the combination among particles and improving the combination among layers, has good compactness of the prepared coating, simple operation and lower cost, and is particularly suitable for industrial application and popularization.
In order to achieve the purpose, the invention adopts the technical scheme that:
a preparation method of a double nano hydroxyapatite/titanium composite gradient coating comprises the following steps:
s1, preparing hydroxyapatite/titanium composite powder with the hydroxyapatite content of 30-70 vol.% by mechanically ball milling the nanostructured hydroxyapatite and titanium powder under the protection of inert gas (pure argon), wherein the particle size of the hydroxyapatite is 10-20 nm, and the particle size of the titanium particles is 20-40 nm;
s2, screening the obtained hydroxyapatite/titanium composite powder, and collecting the hydroxyapatite/titanium composite powder with the particle size of 10-30 microns;
s3, carrying out sand blasting and coarsening pretreatment on a base material, wherein the base material is Ti6Al4V titanium alloy;
s4, depositing a layer of micron porous titanium coating with the thickness of 50-100 mu m on the surface of the pretreated base material by a cold spraying technology;
s5, depositing the hydroxyapatite/titanium composite powder collected in the step S2 on the surface of the porous micron titanium coating by a cold spraying technology to form a hydroxyapatite/titanium composite coating with the thickness of 50-150 microns, wherein the powder feeding amount is 100-150 g/min.
Further, the particle size of the hydroxyapatite/titanium composite powder in the step S1 is controllable.
Furthermore, hydroxyapatite and titanium particles in the hydroxyapatite/titanium composite coating are both nano-structure powder.
The invention has the following beneficial effects:
according to the invention, a porous micron titanium coating is deposited between the hydroxyapatite/titanium composite coating and the substrate through cold spraying, so that the interlayer binding force is improved;
the invention transplants the phase structure and the components of the powder into the coating through the cold spraying technology, inhibits the growth of the nano-crystalline grains and avoids the decomposition or phase change phenomenon caused by the high temperature, thereby improving the bioactivity and the stability of the coating.
The coating prepared by the method has the advantages of good compactness, simple operation and lower cost, and is particularly suitable for industrial application and popularization.
Detailed Description
In order that the objects and advantages of the invention will be more clearly understood, the invention is further described in detail below with reference to examples. It should be understood that the specific embodiments described herein are merely illustrative of the invention and are not intended to limit the invention.
Example 1
Hydroxyapatite powder with the particle size of 10nm and titanium powder with the particle size of 20nm are selected and mechanically ball-milled under the protection of inert gas (pure argon gas) to prepare hydroxyapatite/titanium composite powder with the volume fraction of nano hydroxyapatite of 30 vol.%, wherein the ball-material ratio is 15: 1, the rotating speed is 150rpm, and the ball-milling time is 6 hours; carrying out sand blasting and coarsening treatment on a Ti6Al4V matrix, and then depositing a porous micron titanium coating with the thickness of about 100 microns on the surface of the Ti6Al4V matrix by adopting a cold spraying system, wherein the spraying powder adopts micron titanium particles with the particle size of-200 meshes, and the spraying gas adopts N2The accelerating gas pressure is 2.0MPa, the powder feeding gas pressure is 2.2MPa, the spraying temperature is 250 ℃, the spraying distance is 10mm, and the moving speed of a spray gun is 100 mm/s; then preparing a hydroxyapatite/titanium composite coating on the surface of the porous titanium coating by adopting a cold spraying technology, wherein the thickness of the coating is 50 mu m, and N is adopted as spraying gas2The accelerating gas pressure is 1.6MPa, the powder feeding pressure is 1.8MPa, the spraying temperature is 300 ℃, the spraying distance is 10mm, and the moving speed of the spray gun is 5 mm/s.
The X-ray diffraction analysis shows that the phase structure and the tissue structure of the hydroxyapatite/titanium composite gradient coating are the same as those of the original spraying powder.
Example 2
Hydroxyapatite powder with the particle size of 20nm and titanium powder with the particle size of 30nm are selected to prepare hydroxyapatite/titanium composite powder with the volume fraction of nano hydroxyapatite of 70 vol.% by mechanical ball milling under the protection of inert gas (pure argon), wherein the ball-to-material ratio is 15: 1, the rotating speed is 150rpm, and the ball milling time is 6 hours; carrying out sand blasting and coarsening treatment on a Ti6Al4V matrix, and then depositing a porous micron titanium coating with the thickness of about 100 microns on the surface of the Ti6Al4V matrix by adopting a cold spraying system, wherein the spraying powder adopts micron titanium particles with the particle size of-200 meshes, and the spraying gas adopts N2The accelerating gas pressure is 1.8MPa, the powder feeding gas pressure is 2.0MPa, the spraying temperature is 350 ℃, the spraying distance is 10mm, and the moving speed of a spray gun is 100 mm/s; then preparing hydroxyapatite/titanium on the surface of the porous titanium coating by adopting a cold spraying technologyThe thickness of the composite coating is 50 mu m, and N is adopted as spraying gas2The accelerating gas pressure is 2.0MPa, the powder feeding gas pressure is 2.2MPa, the spraying temperature is 400 ℃, the spraying distance is 10mm, and the moving speed of the spray gun is 10 mm/s.
The X-ray diffraction analysis shows that the phase structure and the tissue structure of the hydroxyapatite/titanium composite gradient coating are the same as those of the original spraying powder.
The foregoing is only a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and it should be noted that those skilled in the art can make various improvements and modifications without departing from the principle of the present invention, and these improvements and modifications should also be construed as the protection scope of the present invention.