In the past two years, significant progresses have been achieved in high-performance cast
and wrought magnesium and magnesium alloys, magnesium-based composites, advanced …

Cardiovascular diseases have become the leading cause of death worldwide. The
increasing burden of cardiovascular diseases has become a major public health problem …

Mg and its alloys evince strong candidature for biodegradable bone implants,
cardiovascular stents, and wound closing devices. However, their rapid degradation rate …

Recently, zinc and its alloys have been proposed as promising candidates for
biodegradable metals (BMs), owning to their preferable corrosion behavior and acceptable …

Implantation of cardiovascular stents is an important therapeutic method to treat coronary
artery diseases. Bare-metal and drug-eluting stents show promising clinical outcomes …

Localized drug delivery from drug-eluting stents (DESs) to target sites provides therapeutic
efficacy with minimal systemic toxicity. However, DESs failure may cause thrombosis, delay …

Zinc based biodegradable metals (BMs) show great potential to be used in various
biomedical applications, owing to their superior biodegradability and biocompatibility. Some …

In recent decades, we have witnessed radical changes in the use of permanent
biomaterials. The intrinsic ability of magnesium (Mg) and its alloys to degrade without …

Mg-based alloys as revolutionary implantable biomaterials have increasingly attracted
considerable attention, owing to their biodegradability in vivo and beneficial effects on …

Biodegradable magnesium‐based scaffolds present outstanding potential to revolutionize
the treatment of coronary artery diseases, in which full recovery of arteries without long‐term …