Research Article

Suitability of Biomorphic Silicon Carbide Ceramics as Drug Delivery Systems against Bacterial Biofilms

Table 2

The release kinetics of vancomycin of loaded bioSiCs (Dose = 1.27 mg/mL) by Higuchi model ( ). Standard deviation in parentheses.

Sample Freedom degreesα

Oak bioSiC 0.32 (0.07)>0.90>701 and 7<0.01
Pine bioSiC 0.54 (0.15)>0.94>901 and 7<0.01
Sapelli bioSiC0.59 (0.06)>0.86>361 and 7<0.01

is the Higuchi release rate constant, is the square of the correlation coefficient, is the -ratio from the ANOVA of the regression and α is the probability of error.