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Item COATING OF SURGICAL NEEDLES WITH BN (BORON NITRIDE) AND RESEARCH ON THEIR MEDICAL PERFORMANCES(2022-09-14) AYDOĞAN, Asude; KAFTANOĞLU, BilginIn this thesis, surgical needles are coated with Boron Nitride (BN) to improve their both medical and mechanical properties. BN coatings of needles are performed by using both magnetron sputtering (MS) method and Inductively Coupled Plasma (ICP) technology in the Physical Vapor Deposition (PVD) system. Also, stainless steel specimen produced from the raw material of needles, D2 steel and silicon are coated with BN. As a result of the obtained BN coatings, thickness, crystal structure, hardness, adhesion, and friction coefficient are measured. The performances of BN-coated needles are evaluated by suture attachment test and penetration test. As a result, the effect of ICP power on SS is observed for the first time and positive results such as increased hardness and adhesion are obtained. Also, D2 steel and silicon results are improved after ICP usage. According to the medical application results, the success of the suture attachment test increased with increasing substrate voltage. As ICP power is increased, both needle body bending, and average needle tip deviation are decreased. In addition, to support another theoretical study and fill the scientific gap about BN coatings, three different experiments are performed by changing the coating parameters such as increasing magnetron power, substrate voltage and Ar/N2 gas amount. Also, the effect of target plate-substrate distance is investigated. As a result, thickness and the intensity of BN coatings is decreased within the increasing target plate-substrate distance. The more substrate is closer to target plate the more thickness is obtained. Also, hardness and adhesion are increased.