Table 1.
Roughness and wettability data collected for the nh-15mer, nh-15mer-R5, 15mer-ch and R5-15mer-ch. Contact angles: N=20, surface roughness N=3, surface energies N=3.
| Nh-15mer | nh-15mer R5 |
15mer-ch | R5-15mer ch |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Contact Angle 0 Before Annealing | 46.5 ± 1.7 | 55.0 ± 0.6 | 56.4 ± 1.2 | 43.4 ± 0.7 |
| Contact Angle 0 After Annealing | 115.7 ± 0.02 | 74.6 ± 0.003 | 84.2 ± 0.02 | 90.9 ± 0.03 |
| Roughness Before Annealing Rq* | 348.9 ± 10.4 | 229.7 ± 6.8 | 310.2 ± 9.2 | 167.1 ± 5.0 |
| Roughness After Annealing Rq* | 332.3 ± 9.9 | 118.0 ± 3.5 | N/A | 99.2 ± 3.0 |
| Surface Energies** | 33.9 ± 0.8 | 25.8 ± 2.8 | 30.3 ± 0.2 | 26.4 ± 0.9 |
| Percent Beta Structure Before annealing | 19.9 ± 0.4 | 22.7 ± 0.5 | 13.6 ± 0.3 | 15.2 ± 0.3 |
| Percent Beta Structure After annealing | 25.6 ± 0.6 | 35.54 ± 0.8 | 15.9 ± 0.4 | 35.2 ± 0.8 |
Root mean square
2nd order standard deviation used as error.