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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: Biomaterials. 2008 Mar;29(8):1085–1098. doi: 10.1016/j.biomaterials.2007.11.002

Table 2.

XPS characterizations of P and T NiTi, both before and after silanization (SP and ST). Numbers in brackets indicate 95% confidence interval.

Sample C N Ni O Si Ti
P NiTi 34.1 (2.6) 3.6 (0.4) 3.8 (0.7) 43.3 (2.2) 0.0 (0.0) 15.2 (1.0)
T NiTi 35.9 (0.9) 1.1 (0.3) 1.4 (0.3) 43.2 (0.8) 0.0 (0.0) 18.4 (0.4)
SP NiTi 52.6 (2.4) 7.9 (1.1) 0.0 (0.0) 24.6 (1.4) 13.7 (1.7) 1.3 (0.6)
ST NiTi 51.7 (1.2) 7.7 (0.9) 0.0 (0.0) 26.2 (1.3) 12.8 (1.1) 1.5 (0.5)