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. 2020 Dec 18;21(24):9679. doi: 10.3390/ijms21249679

Table 3.

Poly(tetrafluoroethylene) (PTFE) chemical composition as resulted from XPS measurements for each surface variant.

PTFE_Control PTFE_50 PTFE_50_N200 PTFE_50_N400 PTFE_50_O200 PTFE_50_O400
Elements (%)
C 32.2 30.4 29.9 28.8 29.8 31.4
F 66.8 67.7 68.1 69.2 66.6 67.2
O 1.0 1.9 2.0 2.0 3.6 1.4
N - - - - - -
C bonds (%)
-CF2- 95.0 79.5 68.8 49.4 71.5 77.1
-CF - 11.2 9.4 32.2 9.7 12.2
-C-OH- - 4.2 11.2 6.9 7.3 -
-C-C- 5.0 5.1 10.6 11.5 11.5 10.7