ArticleJournal of materials science. Materials in medicine2016
Surface morphology, tribological properties and in vitro biocompatibility of nanostructured zirconia thin films.
Article in Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
9 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- State of Art and Perspective of Calcium Phosphate-Based Coatings Coupled with Bioactive Compounds for Orthopedic Applications.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Zirconia Hybrid Dental Implants Influence the Biological Properties of Neural Crest-Derived Mesenchymal Stromal Cells.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Synergy of Nanotopography and Electrical Conductivity of PEDOT/PSS for Enhanced Neuronal Development.ACS applied materials & interfaces · 2023Article
- Advances in Multifunctional Bioactive Coatings for Metallic Bone Implants.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Current status and future potential of wear-resistant coatings and articulating surfaces for hip and knee implants.Materials today. Bio · 2022Review
- PEDOT: PSS promotes neurogenic commitment of neural crest-derived stem cells.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Evaluation of the In Vitro Biocompatibility of PEDOT:Nafion Coatings.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Friction and Wear of Oxide Scale Obtained on Pure Titanium after High-Temperature Oxidation.Materials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2021Article
- Osteogenic Differentiation of hDPSCs on Biogenic Bone Apatite Thin Films.Stem cells international · 2017Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
9 authors at 4 institutions in 1 country.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Deposition of nanostructured and low-wear zirconia (ZrO2) thin films on the metallic component of a total joint implant is envisaged to reduce wear of the soft ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) counterpart. In this work, morphological surface features, wear resistance and in vitro-biocompatibility of zirconia thin films deposited by the novel Pulsed Plasma Deposition (PPD) method have been investigated. Film thickness, roughness and wettability were found to be strongly dependent on deposition gas pressure. Interestingly, wear rate of UHMWPE disks coupled to zirconia-coated titanium spheres was only poorly correlated to the contact angle values, while film roughness and thickness seemed not to affect it. Furthermore, wear of UHMWPE, when coupled with zirconia coated-titanium spheres, significantly decreased with respect to uncoated spheres under dry or NaCl-lubricated conditions; besides, when using bovine serum, similar results were obtained for coated and uncoated spheres. Finally, suitable mesenchymal stem and osteoblast cells adhesion, proliferation and viability were observed, suggesting good biocompatibility of the nanostructured zirconia films. Taken together, the results shown in this work indicate that zirconia thin films deposited by the PPD method deserve further investigations as low-wear materials for biomedical applications such as total joint replacement.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.