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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Mater Sci Eng C Mater Biol Appl. 2015 Jan 7;50:37–44. doi: 10.1016/j.msec.2015.01.009

Table 4.

Kitazaki-Hata surface free energy components (mJ/m2).

Alloy Dispersion
(d)		 Polar
(p)		 Hydrogen
component (h)		 Fractional
polarity (FP)		 Surface free
energy (mJ/m2)
NiTi 27.4 8.8 1.8 0.2 38.0
NiTi10Ta 20.5 3.5 0.7 0.2 24.7
NiTi10Cr 22.4 1.4 0.0 0.1 23.8