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- Title
DLC coating of textile blood vessels using PLD.
- Authors
Kocourek, Tomas; Jelinek, Miroslav; Vorlíček, Vladimír; Zemek, Josef; Janča, Tomáš; Žížková, Věra; Podlaha, Jiří; Popov, Cyril
- Abstract
Textile blood vessels with a length of 30 cm were coated with amorphous diamond-like carbon (DLC) layers with thicknesses up to 200 nm. The layers were created by pulsed laser deposition in vacuum or argon ambient. The percentage of sp3 carbon was evaluated using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, X-ray excited Auger electron spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. Depending on the deposition conditions the sp3 content varied from ∼40% to 60%. The adhesion of the DLC layers to the textile vessels was checked. The preliminary biocompatibility results from in vivo tests with sheep are also given.
- Subjects
PULSED laser deposition; X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy; AUGER effect; RAMAN spectroscopy; BIOCOMPATIBILITY
- Publication
Applied Physics A: Materials Science & Processing, 2008, Vol 93, Issue 3, p627
- ISSN
0947-8396
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00339-008-4728-3