title: Properties of titanium-alloyed DLC layers for medical applications.
abstract: DLC-type layers offer a good potential for application in medicine, due to their excellent tribological properties, chemical resistance, and bio-inert character. The presented study has verified the possibility of alloying DLC layers with titanium, with coatings containing three levels of titanium concentration prepared. Titanium was present on the surface mainly in the form of oxides. Its increasing concentration led to increased presence of titanium carbide as well. The behavior of the studied systems was stable during exposure in a physiological saline solution. Electrochemical impedance spectra practically did not change with time. Alloying, however, changed the electrochemical behavior of coated systems in a significant way: from inert surface mediating only exchange reactions of the environment in the case of unalloyed DLC layers to a response corresponding rather to a passive surface in the case of alloyed specimens. The effect of DLC layers alloying with titanium was tested by the interaction with a simulated body fluid, during which precipitation of a compound containing calcium and phosphorus--basic components of the bone apatite--occurred on all doped specimens, in contrast to pure DLC. The results of the specimens' surface colonization with cells test proved the positive effect of titanium in the case of specimens with a medium and highest content of this element.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Technology Prague; Faculty of Chemical Technology; Technicka 5; Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Ludek
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Joska
authors.affiliation: Institute of Chemical Technology Prague; Faculty of Chemical Technology; Technicka 5; Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Jaroslav
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fojt
authors.affiliation: Czech Technical University in Prague; Faculty of Electrical Engineering; Prague, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Ladislav
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Cvrcek
authors.affiliation: Masaryk University; Faculty of Medicine; Brno, Czech Republic.
authors.forename: Vitezslav
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Brezina
mesh_terms: D000497:Alloys / Q000737:chemistry*; D020811:Biomedical Technology; D001826:Body Fluids / Q000737:chemistry; D002118:Calcium / Q000737:chemistry; D002244:Carbon / Q000737:chemistry*; D045744:Cell Line, Tumor; D020099:Coated Materials, Biocompatible / Q000737:chemistry; D017097:Electric Impedance; D006801:Humans; D008422:Materials Testing; D010758:Phosphorus / Q000737:chemistry; D013499:Surface Properties; D014025:Titanium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D000497:Alloys; D020099:Coated Materials, Biocompatible; C096521:titanium carbide; D010758:Phosphorus; D002244:Carbon; D014025:Titanium; D002118:Calcium
keywords: EIS; XPS; bioactivity; corrosion; titanium doped DLC
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