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Fabrication of antibacterial and hydrophilic electroless Ni–B coating on 316L stainless steel

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Biomaterial-associated bacterial infection is one of the most common complications with medical vehicles and implants made of stainless steel. A surface coating treatment like electroless Ni–B deposition, a new candidate to be used in a broad range of engineering applications owing to many advantages such as low cost, thickness uniformity, good wear resistance, may improve the antibacterial activity and physical properties of biomedical devices made of stainless steel. In this study, the antibacterial property of the electroless Ni–B film coated on AISI 316L (UNS S31603) stainless steel is basically investigated. Inhibition halo diameter measurement after incubation at 37 °C and 24 h demonstrates the existence of antimicrobial activity of the electroless Ni–B coating deposited on 316L stainless steel over the Escherichia coli test bacteria. The results of X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, atomic force microscopy and microhardness measurement studies confirms that the coating deposited on the substrate has an uniform amorphous and a harder structure. Besides, the wettability property of the uncoated substrate and the coating was measured as the contact angle of water. The water contact angle reduced about from 97.7 to 69.25°.

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This research is a part of the BOREN (Institute of National Boron Research of Turkey) project supported with Grant No: BOREN 2008.Ç-0178. The authors would like to thank BOREN for funding the project. Besides, the authors would like to acknowledge Prof. Dr. Ahmet Gürses and Assist. Prof. Dr. Kübra Güneş for the contact angle measuring equipment and Assist. Prof. Dr. Erdal Sönmez for AFM analysis.

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    Ferhat Bülbül

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    Leman Elif Bülbül

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Bülbül, F., Bülbül, L.E. Fabrication of antibacterial and hydrophilic electroless Ni–B coating on 316L stainless steel. Appl. Phys. A 122, 25 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-015-9549-6

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