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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jun 27.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Biomater Artif Organs. 2012;26(2):74–85.

Table 3.

Surface roughness and surface area measurements of Nitinol alloys, scan size I, 10× 10 μm and scan size II, 5 × 5 μm

Size I (10 × 10 μm) Size II (5 × 5 μm)
Surface Roughness [nm] RMS Surface Area [nm2] Surface Roughness [nm] RMS Surface Area [nm2]
NiTiCr-EP 176 ±34 225 ± 33 131 ± 14 122 ± 56 * 155 ± 63 * 37 ± 10
NiTiCr-MEP 85 ± 14 111 ± 11 108 ± 9 66 ± 24 83 ± 29 27 ± 2
NiTiCr 47 ± 10 60 ± 15 101 ± 1 38 ± 19 48 ± 28 26 ± 1
NiTiCu-EP 100 ± 5 130 ± 6 105 ± 4 86 ± 84 75 ± 56 29 ± 9
NiTiCu-MEP 100 ± 23 127 ± 28 120 ± 25 59 ± 25 76 ± 33 33 ± 13
NiTiCu 62 ± 30 80 ± 40 102 ± 2 25 ± 7 32 ±10 26 ± .05
NiTi 66 ± 20 81 ± 28 101 ± .24 37 ± 21 40 ± 26 40 ± 44
NiTi-EP 25 ± 10 37 ± 18 110 ± 9 34 ± 33 49 ± 48 27 ± 2
NiTi-MEP 31 ± 31 * 46 ± 44 113 ± 23 22 ± 20 45 ± 70 28 ±5
NiTiTa 273 ± 69 * 345 ± 68 * 125 ± 26 172 ± 74 * 215 ± 92 * 29 ± 3
NiTiTa-EP 241 ± 98 * 300 ± 126 * 110 ± 6 169 ± 92 * 217 ± 111 * 29 ± 4
NiTiTa-MEP 32 ± 20 47 ± 33 104 ± 5 24 ± 38 34 ± 49 27 ± 4