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- The use of micro-arc oxidation (MAO) coatings on titanium surfaces enhances their biocompatibility for implants, particularly by promoting hydrophilicity.
- Electric polarization treatment was applied to these coatings, generating surface electric fields and confirming their effectiveness through thermally stimulated depolarization current measurements.
- The polarized MAO TiO2 coatings exhibited improved water contact angles, indicating increased wettability without significant changes to their physical structure, likely due to the formation of a concentration gradient of oxide ions and oxygen vacancies.
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The use of micro-arc oxidation titania (MAO TiO2) coatings to modify titanium surfaces improves the biocompatibility of implant surfaces. To obtain hydrophilic MAO TiO2 coating surfaces electric polarization, which induces surface electric fields in the materials and produces surface charges, was performed in this study. Electric polarization of the MAO TiO2 coatings was confirmed by measuring the thermally stimulated depolarization current. After electric polarization treatment the MAO TiO2 coatings did not exhibit any obvious changes in surface roughness, morphology, or phase components. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy results indicated that electric polarization resulted in oxidation of the cathodic-faced surfaces and reduction of the anodic-faced surfaces. This result suggests that the existence of a concentration gradient of oxide ions/oxygen vacancies produced the stored space charge in the coatings. Reduction of the deionized water contact angle on the polarized MAO TiO2 surfaces was maintained for longer periods compared with the non-polarized surface. Our study demonstrated that metastable electric fields across the MAO TiO2 coating produced by electric polarization made it durably wettable by reducing the interfacial surface tension between the material and water.
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