Figure - PMC

Skip to main content

An official website of the United States government

Here's how you know

Here's how you know

Official websites use .gov
A .gov website belongs to an official government organization in the United States.

Secure .gov websites use HTTPS
A lock ( ) or https:// means you've safely connected to the .gov website. Share sensitive information only on official, secure websites.

View full-text article in PMC

. 2019 Jan 28;9:810. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-37123-3

Search in PMC
Search in PubMed
View in NLM Catalog
Add to search

© The Author(s) 2019

Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

PMC Copyright notice

Surface microstructures and elemental compositions of nHA_100, nHA_400, mHA_100, and mHA_400 coated Mg rods, as well as non-coated Mg rod control under high magnification. Mg rod samples had an initial dimension of 7.5 mm in diameter and 15 mm in height. SEM images of (a1) nHA_100, (a2) nHA_400, (b1) mHA_100, (b2) mHA_400 and (c) Mg. The original magnification for nHA was 20,000x and for mHA and non-coated Mg was 10,000x. Orange square in (a2) indicates the first-deposited layer of nHA particles that were flattened onto the substrates by TPA process and orange arrow in (a2) indicates the subsequently-deposited layer of nHA particles. Scale bar = 3 µm for (a1,a2) and scale bar = 5 µm for (b1,b2,c). (d) Surface elemental composition (wt%) for each sample, quantified on respective SEM images of a-c using EDS.