Biodegradable magnesium alloys for orthopaedic applications: A review on corrosion, biocompatibility and surface modifications

S Agarwal, J Curtin, B Duffy, S Jaiswal - Materials Science and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Magnesium (Mg) and its alloys have been extensively explored as potential biodegradable
implant materials for orthopaedic applications (eg Fracture fixation). However, the rapid …

Biodegradable metals

YF Zheng, XN Gu, F Witte - Materials Science and Engineering: R: Reports, 2014 - Elsevier
After decades of developing strategies to minimize the corrosion of metallic biomaterials,
there is now an increasing interest to use corrodible metals in a number of medical device …

Additively manufactured biodegradable porous magnesium

Y Li, J Zhou, P Pavanram, MA Leeflang, LI Fockaert… - Acta biomaterialia, 2018 - Elsevier
An ideal bone substituting material should be bone-mimicking in terms of mechanical
properties, present a precisely controlled and fully interconnected porous structure, and …

Magnesium implants: prospects and challenges

P Chakraborty Banerjee, S Al-Saadi, L Choudhary… - Materials, 2019 - mdpi.com
Owing to their suitable mechanical property and biocompatibility as well as the technological
possibility of controlling their high corrosion rates, magnesium and its alloys have attracted …

Biomedical coatings on magnesium alloys–a review

H Hornberger, S Virtanen, AR Boccaccini - Acta biomaterialia, 2012 - Elsevier
This review comprehensively covers research carried out in the field of degradable coatings
on Mg and Mg alloys for biomedical applications. Several coating methods are discussed …

Mg and Mg alloys: how comparable are in vitro and in vivo corrosion rates? A review

AHM Sanchez, BJC Luthringer, F Feyerabend… - Acta biomaterialia, 2015 - Elsevier
Due to their biodegradability, magnesium and magnesium-based alloys could represent the
third generation of biomaterials. However, their mechanical properties and time of …

Assessing the corrosion of biodegradable magnesium implants: A critical review of current methodologies and their limitations

NT Kirkland, N Birbilis, MP Staiger - Acta biomaterialia, 2012 - Elsevier
Magnesium (Mg) and its alloys have been intensively studied as biodegradable implant
materials, where their mechanical properties make them attractive candidates for …

Research on an Mg–Zn alloy as a degradable biomaterial

S Zhang, X Zhang, C Zhao, J Li, Y Song, C Xie, H Tao… - Acta biomaterialia, 2010 - Elsevier
In this study a binary Mg–Zn magnesium alloy was researched as a degradable biomedical
material. An Mg–Zn alloy fabricated with high-purity raw materials and using a clean melting …

Degradable biomaterials based on magnesium corrosion

F Witte, N Hort, C Vogt, S Cohen, KU Kainer… - Current opinion in solid …, 2008 - Elsevier
Biodegradable metals are breaking the current paradigm in biomaterial science to develop
only corrosion resistant metals. In particular, metals which consist of trace elements existing …

In vitro corrosion and biocompatibility of binary magnesium alloys

X Gu, Y Zheng, Y Cheng, S Zhong, T Xi - Biomaterials, 2009 - Elsevier
As bioabsorbable materials, magnesium alloys are expected to be totally degraded in the
body and their biocorrosion products not deleterious to the surrounding tissues. It's critical …