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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 15.
Published in final edited form as: RSC Adv. 2016 Feb 17;6(26):21776–21788. doi: 10.1039/C6RA03706B

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.