The last decade has seen a significant growth in the market for alloys used for implants,
especially for those intended for orthopedic implants. Research into biodegradable …

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 …

Magnesium alloy has become one of the third-generation biomedical materials to promote
bone tissue regeneration. Compared to other metal implants, magnesium metal is …

The search for biodegradable metals with mechanical properties equal or higher to those of
currently used permanent biomaterials, such as stainless steels, cobalt chromium and …

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 …

Biodegradable metals (BM) and additive manufacturing (AM) are regarded revolutionary
biomaterials and biofabrication technologies for bone repairing metal implants, the …

In the last decade, iron and magnesium, both pure and alloyed, have been extensively
studied as potential biodegradable metals for medical applications. However, broad …