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Structure, hydrophilicity and corrosion resistance of sol–gel derived Ag-containing TiO2 film on plasma nitrided 316L stainless steel

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Abstract

Pure and Ag-containing TiO2 films (Ag/Ti = 3.3 at.%) are coated on plasma nitrided 316L stainless steel by sol–gel method for biomedical applications. The addition of Ag does not cause obvious change in TG–DSC curves of the dried gels. The rough surface generated by plasma nitriding and the addition of Ag improve structural integrity of the TiO2 films. X-ray diffraction reveals N loss and oxidation of the nitride layer during calcination treatment, and peaks of Ag or its oxides are not detected. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis indicates that Ag presents as metallic state in the film. Water contact angles of the coating samples decrease with UV irradiation treatment. The potentiodynamic polarization tests in a Ca-free Hank’s balanced salt solution show that the TiO2 coated samples have decreased corrosion resistance due to N loss and oxidation of the nitride layer. The methods for crystallization of TiO2 gel layers with minimized or avoided structural changes of the nitride layer will be tried in order to improve corrosion resistance of the duplex treated 316L stainless steel.

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Acknowledgments

This work was financially supported by the Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities (No. xjj2011096), the Innovation and Technology Fund of Hong Kong SAR (No. GHP/066/09NP), the Opening Research Fund of State Key Laboratory of Porous Metal Materials (No. PMM-SKL-2-2012) and the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 50901058).

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  1. Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, 710049, People’s Republic of China

    T. Fu, Z. Alajmi, S. Y. Yang & Y. M. Zhou

  2. Department of Mechanical and Biomedical Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China

    J. Lu

  3. State Key Laboratory of Porous Metal Materials, Xi’an, 710016, People’s Republic of China

    Y. Ge

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Fu, T., Alajmi, Z., Yang, S.Y. et al. Structure, hydrophilicity and corrosion resistance of sol–gel derived Ag-containing TiO2 film on plasma nitrided 316L stainless steel. J Sol-Gel Sci Technol 69, 85–92 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10971-013-3189-0

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