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Table 3
Surface free energy and disperse and polar values before and after fluorination.
| Samples | Surface free energy (mN/m) | Disperse components (mN/m) | Polar components (mN/m) |
| SS | 42.22 ± 1.98 | 31.40 ± 0.28 | 10.82 ± 1.70 | FS | 17.47 ± 1.29 | 13.85 ± 0.46 | 3.62 ± 0.84 | S1 | 23.09 ± 0.44 | 20.58 ± 0.36 | 2.51 ± 0.08 | FS1 | 5.15 ± 0.09 | 5.00 ± 0.08 | 0.14 ± 0.01 | S6 | 60.12 ± 0.17 | 45.96 ± 0.12 | 14.17 ± 0.05 | FS6 | 2.37 ± 0.23 | 2.34 ± 0.21 | 0.03 ± 0.02 |
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SS: untreated stainless steel, FS: fluorinated SS, FS1: fluorinated S1, and FS6: fluorinated S6.
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