Corrosion testing of bioabsorbable metallic materials is important at material selection stage
and for understanding their degradation mechanisms. A large variety of different corrosive …

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

The growing interest in multi-functional metallic biomaterials for bone substitutes challenges
the current additive manufacturing (AM,= 3D printing) technologies. It is foreseeable that …

Magnesium (Mg) alloys possess comparable physical and mechanical properties to bone,
making them an outstanding candidate of implant materials for bone fracture treatment. In …

Magnesium-rare earth (Mg-RE) alloys, as potential biodegradable materials, are attracting
considerable attention owing to their good mechanical properties and biodegradation …

Magnesium and its alloys have such advantages with lightweight, high specific strength,
good damping, high castability and machinability, which make them an attractive choice for …

Compared with non-degradable metals, biodegradable metals, as a new generation of
medical metallic materials, do not require secondary, which reduces the pain and economic …

Titanium alloys are popular metallic implant materials for use in total hip replacements.
Although, α+ β titanium alloys such as Ti-6Al-4V have been the most commonly used alloys …

Magnesium has been suggested as a revolutionary biodegradable metal for biomedical
applications. The corrosion of magnesium, however, is too rapid to match the rates of tissue …

Proper alloying magnesium with element scandium (Sc) could transform its microstructure
from α phase with hexagonal closed-packed (hcp) structure into β phase with body-cubic …