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HYDROPHOBIC AND ANTIBACTERIAL PROPERTIES OF LASER MICROMACHINED STEEL SURFACES

1 SYROVÁTKA Šimon
Co-authors:
1,2 MARTAN Jiří
Institutions:
1 Department of Machining Technology, University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 8, 30100 Pilsen, Czech Republic, EU, simonsyr@students.zcu.cz
2 New Technologies Research Centre (NTC), University of West Bohemia, Univerzitni 8, 30100 Pilsen, Czech Republic, EU, jmartan@ntc.zcu.cz
Conference:
29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials, Brno, Czech Republic, EU, May 20 - 22, 2020
Proceedings:
Proceedings 29th International Conference on Metallurgy and Materials
Pages:
793-798
ISBN:
978-80-87294-97-0
ISSN:
2694-9296
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.37904/metal.2020.3554
Published:
27th July 2020
Proceedings of the conference were published in Web of Science and Scopus.
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Abstract

One of the main benefits of ultrashort laser micromachining is the possibility of preparing various surface structures, including a diversity of shapes and dimensions. The goal of this paper was to fabricate hydrophobic surface structures and to study coherency between the wettability and antibacterial properties of these structures for their further ways of application. The picosecond laser with a galvanometer scanner was used in the experiment for the fabrication of several types of surface structures. The next part of the experiment was testing of fabricated structures. Their wettability and antibacterial properties were tested and analyzed during several months. Tests showed that the fabrication of surface structures changed the wettability of the tested samples (the samples became more hydrophobic) and also showed that these structures affect their bacterial properties.

Keywords: Picosecond laser, stainless steel AISI 316L, wettability, hydrophobicity, antibacterial properties

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