Research Article
Relative Contributions of Surface Roughness and Crystalline Structure to the Biocompatibility of Titanium Nitride and Titanium Oxide Coatings Deposited by PVD and TPS Coatings
Table 1
Surface roughness assessment of the surfaces. = the arithmetic average of the absolute deviation from the mean line over a sampling length; = the arithmetic average of the five highest-profile peaks and the five lowest-profile valleys over the entire measurement trace. Means ± SDs are shown.
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| Significant difference compared with Groups TiN, C, SC, and TPS (significant at 99.9%). †Significant difference compared with Groups P, SC, and TPS (significant at 99.9%). ‡Significant difference compared with Groups P, TiN, C, and TPS (significant at 99.9%). Significant difference compared with Groups P, TiN, C, and SC (significant at 99.9%). ∣∣Significant difference compared with Groups C (significant at 95%), SC, and TPS (significant at 99.9%). Significant difference compared with Groups SC and TPS (significant at 99.9%). **Significant difference compared with Groups P (significant at 95%), SC, and TPS (significant at 99.9%). ††Significant difference compared with Groups P, TiN, C, and TPS (significant at 99.9%). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||