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. 2021 Apr 6;22(7):3800. doi: 10.3390/ijms22073800

Table 3.

The methodological details of the included studies in which Zn was used as the antibacterial agent.

PEO Processing Parameters
Substrate # of Exp Groups with Zn Electrolyte Voltage (V) Current Density (A/dm2) Time (min) Surface
Topography
Phase
Composition
Surface Content of Zn Cumulative Zn Ion
Release (ppb)
Ref.
CP-Ti 3 20 g/L Na3PO4, 4 g/L NaOH, and (5, 10, and 15) g/L NPs 301
304
310
1000 7 Porous structures with ZnO NPs of 25 nm
(<1.51–0.98 µm)
Ti, anatase, and rutile 20 wt%
25 wt%
35 wt%
- [37]
CP-Ti, Ti-40Nb 2 H3PO4, 50–75 g/L CaCO3, 40–60 g/L Zn-substituted HA 200–450 - 5–10 Uniformly distributed β-TCP particles over a porous
coating surface with 0–8 µm pore sizes
Anatase, β-TCP, α-TCP, Ca2P2O7 0.28 at%
0.4 at%
- [52]
Ti6Al4V 1 50 g/L Na2SiO3 and 4 g/L ZnO NPs 350 - 15 Porous structures (<3 µm) with ZnO NPs of 20–50 nm Ti, anatase, rutile, and ZnO 35.54 wt% - [78]
CP-Ti 2 0.1 M CA, 0.06 M NaH2P, 0.02 M Na2Zn-EDTA, or 0.02 M ZnO NPs - 10 10 Porous surface at micrometer scale Anatase, rutile, ZnO - - [79]
CP-Ti 3 0.15 M CA, 0.1 M Ca-GP,
0.5–2.5 mM ZnCl2
- 2.51 10 Continuous porous surface with circular pores of 5.3 µm in size α-Ti, anatase 3.3 at% 250—day 7 [80]
CP-Ti 1 15 g EDTA-2Na,
8.8 g Ca(CH3COO)2·H2O, 6.3 g Ca(H2PO4)·H2O,
7.1 g Na2SiO3·9H2O,
5 g NaOH, 6 mL H2O2,
8.5 g Zn(CH3COO)2 in 1 L
350–500 - 7 Porous and rough surface with 1–3 µm pore sizes increasing voltages resulting in decreasing pore density and increased pore sizes Ti, anatase, rutile 2 at% 250—day 15 [81]
CP-Ti 1 0.15 M CA, 0.15 M Ca-GP, and 0.02 M ZnA 350 - 1 Porous structures with volcano-shaped structures Ti, anatase, and rutile 9.7 at% 300—day 1
<1000—day 28
[82]
CP-Ti 3 0.1 M CA, 0.05 GP, and (0.02, 0.04, and 0.06) M ZnA - 16.5 4 Porous (<5 µm) with nano-grains of 20–100 nm Ti, anatase, and rutile 4.6 ± 0.7 wt%
7.1 ± 0.6 wt%
9.3 ± 0.8 wt%
1180—day 14
2235—day 14
3620—day 14
[83]
CP-Ti 1 0.02 M CA, 0.15 M Ca-GP, and 0.06 M ZnA - 30 5 Porous structures
(<5 µm)
Ti, anatase, and rutile 8.7 at% - [84]
CP-Ti 3 0.1 M CA, 0.025 M Na5P3O10, and (0.01, 0.03, and 0.05) M ZnA 380 - 20 Micro-porous structures - 0.199 at%
0.574 at%
1.995 at%
- [85]
Ti-15Mo 3 0.1 M Ca(H2PO2)2, 10 g/L ZnO, or 25 g/L Zn3(PO4)2 or 10 g/L Ca3(PO4)2 and 10 g/L Zn3(PO4)2 particles 300 15 5 Porous oxide layer with micropores - 1.5 at%
1.1 at%
0.2 at%
115—week 16
64—week 16
60—week 16
[86]

CA: calcium acetate, Ca-GP: calcium glycerophosphate, GP: glycerophosphate, HA: hydroxyapatite, KOH: potassium hydroxide, NPs: nanoparticles, NR: not reported, TCP: tricalcium phosphate, ZnA: zinc acetate.