With the growing demand for next-generation health care, the integration of electronic
components into implantable medical devices (IMDs) has become a vital factor in achieving …

Zinc has been identified as one of the most promising biodegradable metals along with
magnesium and iron. Zinc appears to address some of the core engineering problems …

Magnesium-based biodegradable metals (BMs) as bone implants have better mechanical
properties than biodegradable polymers, yet their strength is roughly less than 350 MPa. In …

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

During the last decade, translational research on biodegradable metallic materials has
shown the feasibility of these novel materials for use in the fields of cardiology and …

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

Absorbable metals have the potential to serve as the next generation of temporary medical
implant devices by safely dissolving in the human body upon vascular tissue healing and …

Abstract Three-dimensional (3D) printing technology has received great attention in the past
decades in both academia and industry because of its advantages such as customized …

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

Patients suffering bone fractures in different parts of the body require implants that will
enable similar function to that of the natural bone that they are replacing. Joint diseases …