Designation and development of biomedical Ti alloys with finer biomechanical compatibility in long-term surgical implants

Abstract

Developing the new titanium alloys with excellent biomechanical compatibility has been an important research direction of surgical implants materials. Present paper summarizes the international researches and developments of biomedical titanium alloys. Aiming at increasing the biomechanical compatibility, it also introduces the exploration and improvement of alloy designing, mechanical processing, microstructure and phase transformation, and finally outlines the directions for scientific research on the biomedical titanium alloys in the future.

Keywords

biomedical Ti alloys / biomechanical compatibility / surgical implant / microstructure / phase transformation

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Major State Basic Research Development Program (Grant No. 2012CB619102), the National Key Technology R&D Program (Grant No. 2012BAI18B02), the International S&T Cooperation Program (Grant No. 2014DFA30880) and the International S&T Cooperation Program of Shaanxi Province (Grant No. 2013kw15). The authors gratefully thank the generous financial support of it.

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