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

Metals and alloys, including stainless steel, titanium and its alloys, cobalt alloys, and other
metals and alloys have been widely used clinically as implant materials, but implant-related …

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 …

Biodegradable materials, including natural and synthetic polymers and hydrolyzable metals,
constitute the main components of temporary, implantable medical devices. Besides the …

Biodegradable metals (BMs) gradually degrade in vivo by releasing corrosion products once
exposed to the physiological environment in the body. Complete dissolution of …

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 …

Recently, zinc and its alloys have been proposed as promising candidates for
biodegradable metals (BMs), owning to their preferable corrosion behavior and acceptable …

Corrosion testing of bioabsorbable metallic materials is important at material selection stage
and for understanding their degradation mechanisms. A large variety of different corrosive …

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

The combination of biodegradable metals and additive manufacturing (AM) leads to a
revolutionary change of metal implants in many aspects including materials, design …