Supporting Information to Optimally Hierarchical Nanostructured Hydroxyapatite Coatings for Superior Prosthesis Biointegration Noushin Nasiri1,2, Shayanti Mukherjee3,4, Anitha Panneerselvan3, David R. Nisbet3#* and Antonio Tricoli1#* 1
Nanotechnology Research Laboratory, Research School of Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia 2 Institute for Biomedical Materials and Devices, Faculty of Science, University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2007, Australia 3 Laboratory of Advanced Biomaterials, Research School of Engineering, Australian National University, Canberra 2601, Australia 4 The Ritchie Centre, Hudson Institute of Medical Research, Clayton 3168, Australia E-mail:
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Figure S1. (a) SEM image of ultraporous HAp nanostructured coating upon 25 s deposition time. (b) The SEM micrograph shows the minor changes in the surface restructuring upon 15 cycle abrasion test.
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