In biomedical applications, the conventionally used metallic materials, including stainless
steel, Co-based alloys and Ti alloys, often times exhibit unsatisfactory results such as stress …

After decades of develo** strategies to minimize the corrosion of metallic biomaterials,
there is now an increasing interest to use corrodible metals in a number of medical device …

In this work, the selective laser melting (SLM) of CoCr alloy powder for producing
cardiovascular stents is investigated. The paper aims to assess the feasibility of producing a …

Magnesium (Mg) has emerged as an ideal alternative to the permanent implant materials
owing to its enhanced properties such as biodegradation, better mechanical strengths than …

The performance of biodegradable magnesium alloy stents (BMgS) requires special
attention to non-uniform residual stress distribution and stress concentration, which can …

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the major causes of human death in the world.
Endovascular stents are the most important implantation devices in cardiovascular …

Coronary stent designs have undergone significant transformations in geometry, materials,
and drug elution coatings, contributing to the continuous improvement of stenting success …

A phase-field model is developed to simulate the corrosion of Mg alloys in body fluids. The
model incorporates both Mg dissolution and the transport of Mg ions in solution, naturally …

Biodegradable magnesium (Mg) alloys are expected to be promising materials for
cardiovascular stents (CVS), which can avoid the long-term clinical problems of current CVS …

In this study, we propose a novel computational framework for designing innovative self-
expandable femoral stents. First, a two-dimensional stent unit cell is designed by inverse …