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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 10.
Published in final edited form as: J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 2011 Jan 10;5(6):e115–e125. doi: 10.1002/term.377

Table 1.

Charge injection characteristics for various electrode materials (carbon, stainless steel, titanium nitride, titanium) taken from current-versus-time traces for 5 V/cm, 2 ms monophasic square wave pulses delivered to bioreactors with electrodes 4 cm in length placed 1 cm apart.

Material Injected
Charge
(µC)
Unrecovered
Injected
Charge (µC)
% Injected
Charge
Unrecovered
Carbon 364 56.4 15.5%
Stainless Steel 281 59.2 21.1%
Titanium Nitride 235 40.0 17.0%
Titanium 180 45.2 25.1%