To fabricate porous copper coatings on titanium, we used the process of plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO) with voltage control. For all experiments, the three-phase step-up transformer with six-diode Graetz bridge was used. The voltage and the amount of salt used in the electrolyte were determined so as to obtain porous coatings. Within the framework of this study, the PEO process was carried out at a voltage of 450 VRMS in four electrolytes containing the salt as copper(II) nitrate(V) trihydrate. Moreover, we showed that the content of salt in the electrolyte needed to obtain a porous PEO coating was in the range 300-600 g/dm3. After exceeding this amount of salts in the electrolyte, some inclusions on the sample surface were observed. It is worth noting that this limitation of the amount of salts in the electrolyte was not connected with the maximum solubility of copper(II) nitrate(V) trihydrate in the concentrated (85%) orthophosphoric acid. To characterize the obtained coatings, numerous techniques were used. In this work, we used scanning electron microscopy (SEM) coupled with electron-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDS), conducted surface analysis using confocal laser scanning microscopy (CLSM), and studied the surface layer chemical composition of the obtained coatings by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray diffraction (XRD), glow discharge of optical emission spectroscopy (GDOES), and biological tests. It was found that the higher the concentration of Cu(NO3)2∙3H2O in the electrolyte, the higher the roughness of the coatings, which may be described by 3D roughness parameters, such as Sa (1.17-1.90 μm) and Sp (7.62-13.91 μm). The thicknesses of PEO coatings obtained in the electrolyte with 300-600 g/dm3 Cu(NO3) 2∙3H2O were in the range 7.8 to 10 μm. The Cu/P ratio of the whole volume of coating measured by EDS was in the range 0.05-0.12, while the range for the top layer (measured using XPS) was 0.17-0.24. The atomic concentration of copper (0.54-0.72 at%) resulted in antibacterial and fungicidal properties in the fabricated coatings, which can be dedicated to biocompatible applications.

Department of Physics Norwegian University of Science and Technology Realfagbygget E3 124 Høgskoleringen 5 NO 7491 Trondheim Norway

Faculty of Mechanical Engineering Koszalin University of Technology Racławicka 15 17 PL 75 620 Koszalin Poland

Hochschule Wismar University of Applied Sciences Technology Business and Design Faculty of Engineering DE 23966 Wismar Germany

HORIBA FRANCE S A S Avenue de la Vauve Passage Jobin Yvon CS 45002 91120 Palaiseau France

Institute of Geological Engineering Faculty of Mining and Geology VŠB Technical University of Ostrava 708 33 Ostrava Czech Republic

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