OBJECTIVES To observe the early adsorption of extracellular matrix and blood plasma proteins to magnesium-incorporated titanium oxide surfaces, which has shown superior bone response in animal models. MATERIAL AND METHODS Commercially pure titanium discs were blasted with titanium dioxide (TiO2) particles (control), and for the test group, TiO2 blasted discs were further processed with a micr...

A family of bright boron-dipyrromethene-type fluorophores with a high number of fluorine atoms (F-BODIPYs) has been developed and characterized by X-ray crystallography and optical spectroscopy. The introduction of 3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl and pentafluorophenyl moieties significantly enhances the photostability of such dyes, yielding for instance photostable near-infrared (NIR) fluorophor...

Water adsorption and dissociation on a GaP(111) crystal surface are investigated using near-ambient pressure X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (NAP XPS) in a wide range of pressures (∼10(-10)-5 mbar) and temperatures (∼300-773 K). Dynamic changes in chemical evolution at the H2O/GaP(111) interface are reflected in Ga 2p3/2, O 1s, and P 2p spectra. In the pressure-dependent study performed at roo...

The present research focuses on investigation of the catalytic behaviors of MgCl₂-SiO₂/TiCl₄/THF Ziegler-Natta (ZN) catalysts with fumed SiO₂ variously treated with silane compounds. The non-treated silica (NTS) and other silicas treated with dimethylsilicone fluid (TSDMSF), dimethyldichlorosilane (TSDMDCS), and hexamethyl-disilazane (TSHMDS) were employed. It was found that the Cat-TSDMDCS and...

Gold nanolayers sputtered on polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) surface and their changes induced by post-deposition annealing at 100°C to 300°C are studied. Changes in surface morphology and roughness are examined by atomic force microscopy, electrical sheet resistance by two point technique, zeta potential by electrokinetic analysis and chemical composition by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XP...

A single layer of the cationic polyelectrolyte poly(allyamine) hydrochloride (PAH) deposited, using the layer-by-layer technique, on a silicon substrate containing 5 nm oxide layer is investigated by XPS while applying an external potential bias to the sample to control and manipulate the charge built-up on the oxide layer. Under application of a -10 V bias, the oxide layer is positively charge...

Surface treatment of materials with excimer laser radiation often results in the formation of a rough columnar or cone-shaped surface topography, which leads to a considerable increase in the surface area. As a result, the search for a non-porous bioactive material with adequate mechanical properties and a high surface to volume ratio, similar to porous materials, which could be used for drug d...

CP titanium was polished with a colloidal sitica suspension and chromic ox{de slurry under low and high pressures. The polisheti surfaces wer'e characterized by means of EI]MA and XPS. Irrespeetive of polishing pressure, colloidal silica suspension suecessfully created a mirror-Iike surface that was clean at EPMA level, However, XPS detected a small amount of silicon on the outermost surface. O...

We report experimental and theoretical evidence of surface effects in the Ni 2p x-ray photoemission spectra !XPS" of NiO. The Ni 2p3/2 surface-enhanced XPS of a NiO sample show a relative enhancement of the intensity of the known satellite at 1.5 eV higher binding energy from the main line, indicating a considerable surface contribution of this satellite. The results are discussed in terms of b...

We present accurate ground-state energies for the positronium atom in a Coulomb field of point charge Z (XPs!, for the positronium hydrogen ~HPs! and positronium lithium ~LiPs! atoms. Calculations are done using the diffusion quantum Monte Carlo ~DQMC! method. For XPs, the critical value of Z for binding is examined. While HPs is stable, the results show that LiPs is unstable against dissociati...