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ArticleMaterials (Basel, Switzerland)2014

Biocompatibility and Surface Properties of TiO₂ Thin Films Deposited by DC Magnetron Sputtering.

Francisco López-Huerta, Blanca Cervantes, Octavio González, Julián Hernández-Torres, Leandro García-González, Rosario Vega, Agustín L Herrera-May, Enrique Soto

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Article in Materials (Basel, Switzerland), 2014. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 81 citations in OpenAlex.

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  9. PLGA-Based Composites for Various Biomedical Applications.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  11. Effect of the Thickness of TiOMaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2020
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  13. TiOFrontiers in chemistry · 2018
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  15. Atomic layer deposition of nano-TiOInternational journal of nanomedicine · 2017
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Francisco López-HuertaCentro de Investigación en Micro y Nanotecnología, Universidad Veracruzana, Calzada Ruiz Cortines 455, 94294 Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico. frlopez@uv.mx.
Blanca CervantesCentro de Investigación en Micro y Nanotecnología, Universidad Veracruzana, Calzada Ruiz Cortines 455, 94294 Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico. blanca.cervantes@gmail.com.
Octavio GonzálezInstituto de Fisiología, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Av. San Claudio 6301, Col. San Manuel, 72570 Puebla, Mexico. octavio.gp.21@gmail.com.
Julián Hernández-TorresCentro de Investigación en Micro y Nanotecnología, Universidad Veracruzana, Calzada Ruiz Cortines 455, 94294 Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico. julihernandez@uv.mx.
Leandro García-GonzálezCentro de Investigación en Micro y Nanotecnología, Universidad Veracruzana, Calzada Ruiz Cortines 455, 94294 Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico. leagarcia@uv.mx.
Rosario VegaInstituto de Fisiología, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Av. San Claudio 6301, Col. San Manuel, 72570 Puebla, Mexico. axolotl_56@yahoo.com.mx.
Agustín L Herrera-MayCentro de Investigación en Micro y Nanotecnología, Universidad Veracruzana, Calzada Ruiz Cortines 455, 94294 Boca del Río, Veracruz, Mexico. leherrera@uv.mx.
Enrique SotoInstituto de Fisiología, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Av. San Claudio 6301, Col. San Manuel, 72570 Puebla, Mexico. esoto24@gmail.com.
Universidad Veracruzana · MXBenemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla · MX

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We present the study of the biocompatibility and surface properties of titanium dioxide (TiO₂) thin films deposited by direct current magnetron sputtering. These films are deposited on a quartz substrate at room temperature and annealed with different temperatures (100, 300, 500, 800 and 1100 °C). The biocompatibility of the TiO₂ thin films is analyzed using primary cultures of dorsal root ganglion (DRG) of Wistar rats, whose neurons are incubated on the TiO₂ thin films and on a control substrate during 18 to 24 h. These neurons are activated by electrical stimuli and its ionic currents and action potential activity recorded. Through X-ray diffraction (XRD), the surface of TiO₂ thin films showed a good quality, homogeneity and roughness. The XRD results showed the anatase to rutile phase transition in TiO₂ thin films at temperatures between 500 and 1100 °C. This phase had a grain size from 15 to 38 nm, which allowed a suitable structural and crystal phase stability of the TiO₂ thin films for low and high temperature. The biocompatibility experiments of these films indicated that they were appropriated for culture of living neurons which displayed normal electrical behavior.

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biocompatibilitydirect current magnetron sputteringdorsal root ganglion neuronsthin filmTiO2

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PMID28788667
PMCPMC5455933
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