Abstract
Camphor, C10H16O, as a natural and renewable carbon precursor, can be pyrolyzed to pyrolytic carbon (PyC; pyrocarbon) with significant industrial applications from conducting electrodes to biomedical implant coatings. Here, a simple but controllable chemical vapor deposition setup, operating at low temperatures (650–800 °C) in nitrogen atmosphere at ambient pressure in the absence of catalyst, was used. According to XRD and Raman spectroscopy, nanocrystalline thin PyC films were obtained at this temperature range without a significant change in L c and d 002 values. When the deposition temperature increased from 700 to 800 °C, L a and crystallinity percentage values were increased from 2.40 nm and 73.16% to 4.15 nm to 87.58%, respectively. SEM and AFM analyses showed smooth (Ra ≈ 1 nm) and shiny surface for the thin films with 10–500-nm range thickness. The films were hydrophilic on surface (water contact angle ≈ 72.45°) with surface free energy of ≈ 41 mN/m. Young’s modulus, hardness and friction coefficient of the thin PyC coatings were calculated using nanoindentation technique as ≈ 29.9, 3.5 GPa and 0.09, respectively. Resistivity of the films was 2.21 × 10−5 Ωm, so it can be anticipated to repel the blood cells. Cytocompatibility screening in direct contact mode and in vitro biocompatibility findings supported cyto- and hemocompatible properties for the PyC specimens synthesized from camphor.
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Sheikholeslami, Z.S., Yousefi, M., Imani, M. et al. Low-temperature, chemical vapor deposition of thin-layer pyrolytic carbon coatings derived from camphor as a green precursor. J Mater Sci 53, 959–976 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-017-1590-8
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