Tailoring the adhesion of electrophoretic chitosan/bioactive glass coatings by the combined surface pre-treatments of Ti substrates

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Agnieszka Kowalczyk, Agata Sotniczuk, Donata Kuczyńska-Zemła, Jarosław Pura, Zhiyan Xu, Aldo R. Boccaccini, Halina Garbacz,"Tailoring the adhesion of electrophoretic chitosan/bioactive glass coatings by the combined surface pre-treatments of Ti substrates", submitted to Surface and Coatings Technology.

Designations: Ti_G2 - Titanium Grade 2 G - sample grinded on #600 grit abrasive paperSP - sample shot-peened with 90-150 µm shots, under pressure of 0.5 MPaE - sample etched SP+E_HF - sample shot-peened with 90-150 µm shots, under the pressure of 0.5 MPa and etched in the hydrofluoric solution SP+E_NaOH -  sample shot-peened with 90-150 µm shots, under the pressure of 0.5 MPa and etched in the sodium hydroxide solutionSP+E_HF_NaOH - sample shot-peened with 90-150 µm shots, under the pressure of 0.5 MPa and etched first in the hydrofluoric solution and then in sodium hydroxide EPD - samples coated with chitosan/bioglass coatingADH - samples coated with chitosan/bioglass coating after conducted adhesion testSBF - samples after bioactivity test in Simulated Body Fluid (SBF) solutionSEM - Scaning Electron Microscopy EDS - Energy Dispersive Spectroscopy

Folders content:

Corrosion - contains files with data of corrosion resistance, obtained during electrochemical tests

FTIR - contains files obtained from Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy analysis of chitosan/bioglass coating

Roughness - contains files from topography analysis obtained using optical profilometer for various scan areas

SEM - contains folders with images of samples surfaces from Scanning Electron Microscopes. Subfolders:

Adhesion - contains SEM images of samples coated with chitosan/bioglass coatings after tape test

Bioactivity test - contains SEM images and EDS analysis of samples coated with chitosan/bioglass coatings after bioactivity test in SBF

Coatings - contains SEM images of chitosan/bioactive glass coatings deposited on different substrates

Substrate - contains SEM images of titanium substrate after various surface modifications

Wettability - contains files with data obtained from wettability tests

XRD - contains files with data obtained from X-ray spectroscopy analysis

This research was supported financially by the National Science Centre, Poland under the grant OPUS 23 [2022/45/B/ST5/03398].