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 …

Surgical prostheses and implants used in hard-tissue engineering should satisfy all the
clinical, mechanical, manufacturing, and economic requirements in order to be used for load …

Metallic cellular scaffold is one of the best choices for orthopaedic implants as a
replacement of human body parts, which could improve life quality and increase longevity …

One of the biggest challenges in the biocompatibility of implantable metals is the prevention
of the stress shielding effect, which is related to the coupling of the bone-metal mechanical …

Ti-based alloys are finding ever-increasing applications in biomaterials due to their excellent
mechanical, physical and biological performance. Nowdays, low modulus β-type Ti-based …

In this paper, we examine prospects for the manufacture of patient-specific biomedical
implants replacing hard tissues (bone), particularly knee and hip stems and large bone …

Porous and functionally graded materials have seen extensive applications in modern
biomedical devices—allowing for improved site-specific performance; their appreciable …

To prevent spontaneous oxidation during the high-temperature synthesis of non-oxide
ceramics, an inert atmosphere is conventionally required,. This, however, results in high …

Bone tissue engineering is an emerging interdisciplinary field in Science, combining
expertise in medicine, material science and biomechanics. Hard tissue engineering …

This paper presents some examples of knee and hip implant components containing porous
structures and fabricated in monolithic forms utilizing electron beam melting (EBM). In …