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. 2020 Dec 18;8:620537. doi: 10.3389/fbioe.2020.620537

TABLE 1.

Contact angle and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) elemental analysis results.

WCA (°)
Element concentration (at%)
Sample 15 min 14 days C (1 s) O (1 s)
PEEK 79.5 ± 2.4 79.5 ± 2.4 88.8 11.2
PEEK/120 s 23.2 ± 1.8 55.1 ± 2.2 67.3 32.7
PEEK/240 s 21.8 ± 1.3 48.3 ± 1.9 60.1 39.9
PEEK/480 s 18.9 ± 1.7 64.7 ± 2.1 51.4 48.6