Table 2.
Water and diiodomethane Contact Angle data for coloured Ti discs. Surface free energy is also reported, together with dispersive and polar contributes, and polar ratio.
| Sample | Water CA (°) | Diiodo Methane CA (°) | SFE (mN/m) | SFE Disperse (mN/m) |
SFE Polar (mN/m) |
Polar Ratio (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ti machined | 66.21 (±3.68) | 45.16 (± 2.92) |
47.04 (±3.55) | 36.93 (±1.56) | 10.12 (±1.98) | 21.5 |
| Light Fuchsia | 77.32 (±9.44) | 41.19 (±2.07) |
43.56 (±4.56) | 39.01 (±1.06) | 4.55 (±3.5) |
10.4 |
| Dark Fuchsia | 78.03 (±12.26) | 36.88 (±1.48) |
44.99 (± 4.9) |
41.14 (±0.71) | 3.84 (±4.19) |
8.5 |
| Light Gold | 80.74 (±5.91) | 42.23 (±1.36) |
41.94 (±2.65) | 38.47 (±0.71) | 3.47 (±1.94) |
8.3 |
| Dark Gold | 81.45 (±0.02) | 34.41 (±0.02) |
44.87 (±0.02) | 42.30 (±0.01) | 2.57 (±0.01) |
5.7 |