Table 4 The influence of ultrasound (sinusoidal for 68_450 and 136_600 groups and unipolar rectangular for 136_450 group) on coatings properties concerning biomedical applications across various groups.
Group | Coatings properties | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Sa [µm] | Ssk [–] | Sk [µm] | Spk [µm] | Svk [µm] | Is [%] | CA-P [°] | CA-NP [°] | d [µm] | c [%] | H [GPa] | E [GPa] | H/E [–] | Lc2 [N] | |
68_450 | ↑ | ↑+ | ↑ | ↑ | ↓ | ↑ | ↑+ | ↓ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ |
136_450 | ↑ | ↓ | ↑+ | ↓ | ↑+ | ↑ | ↑+ | ↓ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↑+ | ↓ |
136_600 | ↑ | ↑ | ↑ | ↓+ | ↑ | ↑+ | ↑+ | ↓ | ↑+ | ↑+ | ↑ | ↓+ | ↑ | ↓ |
Sa – roughness; Ssk – skewness; Sk – core height; Spk – reduced peak height; Svk – reduced valley depth; Is – isotropy; CA-P– contact angle for polar fluid (water); CA-NP – contact angle for non-polar fluid (diiodomethane); d – thickness; c – crystallinity; E – elastic modulus; H – hardness; H/E – hardness to elastic modulus ratio; Fc – complete delamination force. Legend: green arrow – positive influence of US to the coatings’ feature for biomedical application, red arrow – negative influence of US to the coatings’ feature for biomedical application, + – the most favorable result of the assessed quality for biomedical application (Ssk, Sk, Svk, Is, d, H/E: the highest; Spk: the lowest; CA-P: in the range of 35–80°; c: the highest quantity of rutile; E: the closer to 10–40 GPa). | ||||||||||||||
