The use of dual beam ESEM FIB to reveal the internal ultrastructure of hydroxyapatite nanoparticle-sugar-glass composites.

Journal of Materials Science. Materials in Medicine
David M WrightJeremy N Skepper

Abstract

Microparticles (MP) spray dried from hydroxyapatite (HA) nanoparticle (NP) sugar suspensions are currently under development as a prolonged release vaccine vehicle. Those with a significant sugar component cannot be sectioned by ultramicrotomy as resins are excluded by the sugar. Focused ion beam (FIB) milling is the only method to prepare thin sections that enables the inspection of the MPs ultrastructure by transmission electron microscopy (TEM). Several methods have been explored and we have found it is simplest to encapsulate MPs in silver dag, sandwiched between gold foils for FIB-milling to enable multiple MPs to be sectioned simultaneously. Spray dried MPs containing 80% sugar have an inter-nanoparticle separation that is comparable with NP size (approximately 50 nm). MPs spray dried with 50% sugar or no sugar are more tightly packed. Nano-porosity in the order of 10 nm exists between NPs. MPs spray dried in the absence of sugar and sectioned by ultramicrotomy or by FIB-milling have comparable nanoscale morphologies. Selected area electron diffraction (SAED) demonstrates that the HA remains (substantially) crystalline following FIB-milling.

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