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. 2019 Jun 11;12(11):1877. doi: 10.3390/ma12111877

Table 1.

Surface properties of the epoxy, epoxy/TiO2/epoxy and epoxy/FAS-TiO2/epoxy coatings on AISI 316L stainless steel: Static water contact angles (θW), surface energy (γ) and the average surface roughness (Sa).

Coating θW (o) γ (mN/m) Sa (nm)
epoxy 75 ± 1 38.6 ± 0.1 50 ± 5
epoxy/TiO2/epoxy 83 ± 1 33.7 ± 0.1 320 ± 20
epoxy/FAS-TiO2/epoxy 120 ± 3 11.6 ± 0.1 600 ± 30