Backscattered electron imaging and electron backscattered diffraction in the study of bacterial attachment to titanium alloy structure
Autor: | Linnan Ke, L I Liu, Anqi Wang, Junfa Mei, Yue X Li, Chunren Wang, Rachel Sammons, Gabriel Landini, Yuanli Huang, Y. Y. Tse, I.P. Jones |
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Rok vydání: | 2017 |
Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
Histology Materials science Analytical chemistry Titanium alloy chemistry.chemical_element 02 engineering and technology Substrate (electronics) 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology Microstructure Pathology and Forensic Medicine law.invention 03 medical and health sciences Crystallography 030104 developmental biology chemistry Aluminium law Grain boundary Electron microscope 0210 nano-technology Titanium Electron backscatter diffraction |
Zdroj: | Journal of Microscopy. 270:53-63 |
ISSN: | 0022-2720 |
DOI: | 10.1111/jmi.12649 |
Popis: | The application of secondary electron (SE) imaging, backscattered electron imaging (BSE) and electron backscattered diffraction (EBSD) was investigated in this work to study the bacterial adhesion and proliferation on a commercially pure titanium (cp Ti) and a Ti6Al4V alloy (Ti 64) with respect to substrate microstructure and chemical composition. Adherence of Gram-positive Staphylococcus epidermidis 11047 and Streptococcus sanguinis GW2, and Gram-negative Serratia sp. NCIMB 40259 and Escherichia coli 10418 was compared on cp Ti, Ti 64, pure aluminium (Al) and vanadium (V). The substrate microstructure and the bacterial distribution on these metals were characterised using SE, BSE and EBSD imaging. It was observed that titanium alloy-phase structure, grain boundaries and grain orientation did not influence bacterial adherence or proliferation at microscale. Adherence of all four strains was similar on cp Ti and Ti 64 surfaces whilst inhibited on pure Al. This work establishes a nondestructive and straight-forward statistical method to analyse the relationship between microbial distribution and metal alloy structure. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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