Ordered nano-scale dimple pattern formation on a titanium alloy (Ti-6Al-4V)

Due to the many applications of nanostructured surfaces – including in biomaterials – there is a strong interest in cost- and time-efficient methods for their fabrication. Previously, our group established a simple electrochemical method generating nanoscale patterns on large areas of a number of different metal surfaces. They consist of dimples that are around 6-10 nm deep and hexagonally closed packed with a tunable periodicity of around 50 …