Correlation between Antimicrobial Activity and Bioactivity of Na-Mica and Na-Mica/Fluorapatite Glass and Glass-Ceramics and Their Corrosion Protection of Titanium in Simulated Body Fluid

Abstract

The improvement in bioactivity of titanium (Ti) surface was achieved via coating it with Na-mica and Na-mica/fluorapatite glass and glass-ceramic using the low-cost electrophoretic deposition technique. Two compositions from pure Na-mica (M) and 80 Na-mica/20 fluorapatite glasses (MF) were prepared in the system SiO2-Al2O3-MgO-MgF2-Na2O-B2O3 using melting–quenching technique. Characterization of the as-prepared glasses and their counterpart glass-ceramics was studied using differential thermal analysis (DTA), x-ray diffraction (XRD), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) and Fourier Transform-IR (FTIR) spectroscopy techniques. The bioactivity behavior was proved by studying the XRD, FTIR and SEM after immersing both glass and glass-ceramic samples in simulated body fluid (SBF). Both M and MF glasses and glass-ceramics showed high microhardness measurements and good antibacterial behavior. In vitro biodegradation was studied by using electrochemical corrosion behavior of the prepared glass- and glass-ceramic-coated Ti in SBF. The prepared coated Ti showed good corrosion resistance in SBF at 37 °C using potentiodynamic polarization technique, and the impedance data fitting explained the structure of the coating and the adsorption of SBF ions on the Ti surface. The MFGC provides the best corrosion-resistant coating, especially after sintering it.