A review on biomedical titanium alloys: recent progress and prospect

LC Zhang, LY Chen - Advanced engineering materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Compared with stainless steel and Co–Cr‐based alloys, Ti and its alloys are widely used as
biomedical implants due to many fascinating properties, such as superior mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Synthetic bone: Design by additive manufacturing

D Barba, E Alabort, RC Reed - Acta biomaterialia, 2019 - Elsevier
A broad range of synthetic trabecular-like metallic lattices are 3D printed, to study the extra
design freedom conferred by this new manufacturing process. The aim is to propose new …

New insights into nickel-free superelastic titanium alloys for biomedical applications

A Ramezannejad, W Xu, WL Xiao, K Fox… - Current Opinion in Solid …, 2019 - Elsevier
Superelastic titanium (Ti) alloys are a group of unique functional metallic materials capable
of recovering a substantial amount of mechanical strain thereby offering superior resilience …

Effects of Mo contents on the microstructure, properties and cytocompatibility of the microwave sintered porous Ti-Mo alloys

JL Xu, SC Tao, LZ Bao, JM Luo, YF Zheng - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The porous Ti-Mo alloys were prepared by microwave sintering, and the effects of
Mo contents on the pore structure, phase composition, compressive strength, elastic …

3D inkjet printing of biomaterials with strength reliability and cytocompatibility: Quantitative process strategy for Ti-6Al-4V

S Barui, AK Panda, S Naskar, R Kuppuraj, S Basu… - Biomaterials, 2019 - Elsevier
Among additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, laser or electron beam based processes
have been widely investigated for metallic implants. Despite the potential in manufacturing …

[HTML][HTML] Compositional and mechanical properties of growing cortical bone tissue: a study of the human fibula

E Lefèvre, D Farlay, Y Bala, F Subtil, U Wolfram… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Human cortical bone contains two types of tissue: osteonal and interstitial tissue. Growing
bone is not well-known in terms of its intrinsic material properties. To date, distinctions …

Bio-inspired nanocomposite by layer-by-layer coating of chitosan/hyaluronic acid multilayers on a hard nanocellulose-hydroxyapatite matrix

C Huang, G Fang, Y Zhao, S Bhagia, X Meng… - Carbohydrate …, 2019 - Elsevier
This study proposed a layer-by-layer technique on the hard CNCs/hydroxyapatite (HAP)
matrix using biodegradable and biocompatible chitosan and hyaluronic acid (HA). Inspired …

Comparative study on Ti-Nb binary alloys fabricated through spark plasma sintering and conventional P/M routes for biomedical application

R Karre, BK Kodli, A Rajendran, J Nivedhitha… - Materials Science and …, 2019 - Elsevier
The main purpose of this work is to obtain homogenous, single β phase in binary Ti-xNb (x=
18.75, 25, and 31.25 at.%) alloys by simple mixing of pure elemental powders using different …

[HTML][HTML] Bone-inspired enhanced fracture toughness of de novo fiber reinforced composites

F Libonati, AE Vellwock, F Ielmini, D Abliz… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Amplification in toughness and balance with stiffness and strength are fundamental
characteristics of biological structural composites, and a long sought-after objective for …

[HTML][HTML] Å-Indentation for non-destructive elastic moduli measurements of supported ultra-hard ultra-thin films and nanostructures

F Cellini, Y Gao, E Riedo - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
During conventional nanoindentation measurements, the indentation depths are usually
larger than 1–10 nm, which hinders the ability to study ultra-thin films (< 10 nm) and …