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Corrosion of Metallic Biomaterials
(Springer Verlag, 2015) Dikici, Burak; Esen, Ziya; Duygulu, Özgür; Güngör, Serap; 52373
Metallic materials have been used as biomedical implants for various parts of the human body for many decades. The physiological environment (body fluid) is considered to be extremely corrosive to metallic surfaces; and corrosion is one of the major problems to the widespread use of the metals in the human body since the corrosion products can cause infections, local pain, swelling, and loosening of the implants. Recently, the most common corrosion-resistant metallic biomaterials are made of stainless steels and titanium and its alloys along with cobalt chromium molybdenum alloys. It is well known that protective surface films of the alloys play a key role in corrosion of the metallic implants. Key documents on the corrosion behavior of the metallic biomaterials in human body have been compiled under this chapter as a review.
Citation Count: 8Esen, Z.; Dikici, Burak; Duygulu, Ozgur;..et.al., "Titanium-magnesium based composites: mechanical propertiesand in-vitro corrosion response in ringer's solution" Materials Science And Engineering A-Structural Materials Properties Microstructure And Processing, Vol.573, pp.119-126, (2013).
Titanium-magnesium based composites: mechanical propertiesand in-vitro corrosion response in ringer's solution
(Elsevier Science BV, 2013) Esen, Z; Dikici, Burak; Duygulu, Özgür; Dericioğlu, Arcan F.; 52373
Ti-Mg composite rods exhibiting both bioinert and biodegradable characteristics have been manufactured by hot rotary swaging from elemental powders of titanium and magnesium. As a result of processing, spherical magnesium powders elongated in the direction of deformation and the dendritic structure in starting magnesium powders transformed into highly equiaxed grains. Magnesium particles in the outer layer of the composites were decorated by thin layer of MgO while the interior parts were free from oxides. As expected, Young's moduli, yield and peak strengths of the composites were observed to decrease with an increase in the magnesium content, while ductility of composites was enhanced by decreasing the amount of titanium. Composites fractured at an angle 45 to the loading axis along the titanium particle boundaries and through the magnesium particles via transgranular type of fracture with the accumulation of twins near the fracture surface of magnesium. Mechanical properties of the composites were observed to be comparable to that of bone and the composites exhibited biodegradable and bioinert character upon testing in Ringer's solution such that magnesium was selectively corroded and pores were formed at prior magnesium powder sites while titanium preserved its starting skeleton structure. In addition, it was found that volume ratio of titanium and magnesium, and continuous MgO layer are the most important parameters which should be considered in designing biodegradable magnesium alloys with an appropriate corrosion rate. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.