ArticleHeliyon2025
Antibacterial properties of copper-tantalum thin films: The impact of copper content and thermal treatment on implant coatings.
Article in Heliyon, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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3 citing papers in PubMed.
- Progress and challenges of tantalum-containing biomaterials in regenerative medicine applications.Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine · 2026Review
- Reactive Magnetron-Sputtered Tantalum-Copper Nitride Coatings: Structure, Electrical Anisotropy, and Antibacterial Behavior.Nanomaterials (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Engineering copper and copper-based materials for a post-antibiotic era.Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology · 2025Review
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Abstract
This study evaluates the antibacterial properties and physicochemical characteristics of -tantalum-copper (Ta-Cu) coatings deposited on titanium alloy substrates using high-power magnetron sputtering. Implant-associated infections, particularly those caused by bacterial adhesion and biofilm formation, pose significant challenges in the field of orthopedic and dental implants. To address these issues, Ta-Cu coatings with varying copper content (∼3.0 wt%, ∼10 wt%, ∼17 wt% for TaCu-1, TaCu-2, and TaCu-3, respectively) and different thermal treatment conditions (400 °C, 500 °C, 600 °C) were assessed for their antibacterial efficacy against
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