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

This record contains all files generated in the preparation process of the following publication: 

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 paper
SP - sample shot-peened with 90-150 µm shots, under pressure of 0.5 MPa
E - 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 solution
SP+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 coating
ADH - samples coated with chitosan/bioglass coating after conducted adhesion test
SBF - samples after bioactivity test in Simulated Body Fluid (SBF) solution
SEM - 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].