TiCuN coating on brass faucets: from beautifully colored appearance to antibacterial properties (Apr, 10.1007/s11696-022-02584-4, 2023)

Abstract

In the original online version, the Fig. 5 and explanations in the text was missing and published. To determine the chemical state of the surface and the surface composition, XPS measurements were performed as well. Figure 5. Shows the full XPS survey spectrum of TiCuN-3. The XPS survey spectrum and the electron dispersed spectroscopy (EDS) confirm the presence of Cu, N, and Ti on the coated sample. The Cu 2p XPS spectrum is shown in Fig. 5b. There are significant peaks for Cu 2p3/2 at 932.5 eV and Cu 2p1/2 at 952.3 eV that confirm the existence of metallic copper. Also, the elemental ratios from XPS were shown a 1.89 w% for the Cu in the TiCuN-3 sample It is noteworthy that these results confirm the electron dispersed spectroscopy data. This result is in good agreement with the literature (Jin et al. 2017). (Figure presented.) (a) XPS survey spectrum for TiCuN-3 and, XPS high-resolution spectra for TiCuN-3 in the fit of (b) Cu 2p region, (c) N 1s region and, (d) Ti 2p region The spelling faucets is misspelled as faucets in figure 1 legend. Figure 5 should be updated as Figure 6. Figure 6 should be updated as Figure 7. The first citation of figure 6 should be updated as figure 6 and figure 7. The second citation of figure 6 should be figure 7. The original article has been corrected. © 2023, Institute of Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences.