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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 May 9.
Published in final edited form as: J Tissue Eng Regen Med. 2018 Oct 24;12(11):2203–2220. doi: 10.1002/term.2744

FIGURE 8.

FIGURE 8

SiONx coatings on implant surfaces (a) was immersed in alpha-MEM for 6 weeks. The coating was observed to degrade over 6 weeks (b) and estimated for the approximate rate of ionic Si release (c). The resultant surface appeared to have the formation of hydroxyapatite crystals in a c-axis orientation (d) [Colour figure can be viewed at wileyonlinelibrary.com]