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    Developing highly nanoporous titanate structures via wet chemical conversion of DC magnetron sputtered titanium thin films

    Wadge, Matthew D ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5157-507X, Turgut, Burhan, Murray, James W, Stuart, Bryan W, Felfel, Reda M ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4651-9759, Ahmed, Ifty ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7868-3698 and Grant, David M ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6786-7720 (2020) Developing highly nanoporous titanate structures via wet chemical conversion of DC magnetron sputtered titanium thin films. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 566. pp. 271-283. ISSN 0021-9797

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    Abstract

    Titanate structures have been widely investigated as biomedical component surfaces due to their bioactive, osteoinductive and antibacterial properties. However, these surfaces are limited to Ti and its alloys, due to the nature of the chemical conversion employed. The authors present a new method for generating nanoporous titanate structures on alternative biomaterial surfaces, such as other metals/alloys, ceramics and polymers, to produce bioactive and/or antibacterial properties in a simple yet effective way. Wet chemical (NaOH; 5 M; 60 °C; 24 h) conversion of DC magnetron sputtered Ti surfaces on 316L stainless steel were investigated to explore effects of microstructure on sodium titanate conversion. It was found that the more equiaxed thin films (B/300) generated the thickest titanate structures (ca. 1.6 μm), which disagreed with the proposed hypothesis of columnar structures allowing greater NaOH ingress. All film parameters tested ultimately generated titanate structures, as confirmed via EDX, SEM, XPS, XRD, FTIR and Raman analyses. Additionally, the more columnar structures (NB/NH & B/NH) had a greater quantity of Na (ca. 26 at.%) in the top portion of the films, as confirmed via XPS, however, on average the Na content was consistent across the films (ca. 5–9 at.%). Film adhesion for the more columnar structures (ca. 42 MPa), even on polished substrates, were close to that of the FDA requirement for plasma-sprayed HA coatings (ca. 50 MPa). This study demonstrates the potential of these surfaces to be applied onto a wide variety of material types, even polymeric materials, due to the lower processing temperatures utilised, with the vision to generate bioactive and/or antibacterial properties on a plethora of bioinert materials.

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