Image Analysis Determination of the Influence of Surface Structure of Silicone Rubbers on Biofouling

Table 1

Results from the image analysis: area covered with microbial growth (%).

Samples	Methods
	Method 1	Method 2	Method 3	Method 4
Plane surface horizontally hung	7.85 ± 0.52	8.66 ± 1.75	13.15 ± 1.97	15.79 ± 0.44
Plane surface vertically hung	12.45 ± 1.76	19.83 ± 3.02	24.50 ± 0.09	28.84 ± 3.97
Textured surface horizontally hung	13.30 ± 1.62	15.91 ± 13.33	22.48 ± 9.87	9.90 ± 0.7
Textured surface vertically hung	10.00 ± 1.32	5.48 ± 4.06	12.71 ± 3.45	12.46 ± 2.44
Reference plane surface	0.02	0.26	0.28	0.26
Reference textured surface	0.99	0.53	1.5	3.2