. 2017 Jul 18;3(3):613–628. doi: 10.3934/microbiol.2017.3.613

Table 1. Contact angles with water (θ_w), formamide (θ_F) and α-bromonaphthalene (θ_B), surface tension parameters (γ^LW, γ⁺ and γ⁻) and hydrophobicity (ΔG) of the bare polystyrene and conditioned surfaces. Values are means ± SDs of three independent experiments.

	Contact angle (°)			Surface tension propertiesmJ m⁻²)			Hydrophobicity (mJ m⁻²)

	θ_w	θ_F	θ_B	γ^LW	γ⁺	γ⁻	ΔG
Bare polystyrene	81.1 ± 0.682	64.3 ± 1.24	24.6 ± 1.11	40.5	0.000	7.95	–50.8
Polystyrene + myristic acid	74.5 ± 0.551	52.1 ± 1.27	29.3 ± 0.894	38.9	0.337	7.79	–45.3
Polystyrene + palmitic acid	72.2 ± 0.567	49.1 ± 0.918	31.0 ± 0.413	38.3	0.621	8.44	–41.2

Table 1. Contact angles with water (θw), formamide (θF) and α-bromonaphthalene (θB), surface tension parameters (γLW, γ+ and γ−) and hydrophobicity (ΔG) of the bare polystyrene and conditioned surfaces. Values are means ± SDs of three independent experiments.