The traditional view is that the
pore structure of substrate determines
the encapsulation ratio. The work proposed that surface adsorption
was also a cause in this method. Polyethylene glycol/hydroxyapatite
(PEG/HAP) and polyethylene glycol/dickite (PEG/D) were prepared by
encapsulating polyethylene glycol (PEG) with hydroxyapatite (HAP)
and dickite as substrates. The pore structures of HAP and dickite
were characterized by BET and mercury intrusion porosimetry, respectively.
Through SEM, XPS, FT-IR, and XRD, the process of PEG being encapsulated
by the two materials was studied. The leakage cycle test was performed
on PEG/HAP. The experiments proved that HAP adsorbed PEG through the
surface and the surface adsorption played an essential role in the
direct impregnation process. According to the distribution of PEG
among HAP particles and the adsorption mechanism of HAP, a model was
created to describe the encapsulation ratio in the direct impregnation
process. The maximum encapsulation ratio of PEG/HAP calculated by
this model is 75.98%, which is close to the actual value (74.66%).