Metallic Biomaterials for Medical Applications
A special issue of Journal of Functional Biomaterials (ISSN 2079-4983). This special issue belongs to the section "Biomaterials and Devices for Healthcare Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 January 2024) | Viewed by 20905
Special Issue Editors
Interests: metallic biomaterials; shape memory alloys; thermomechanical treatment; additive technologies; powder metallurgy; surface modification; functional properties
Interests: severe plastic deformation; structural-phase transformations; physical-mechanical properties of titanium alloys for medical applications
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The aging of the world’s population, as well as the growing requirements for improving quality of life, increases the demand for novel biomaterials with enhanced functional properties. Metallic biomaterials are the most widely used implant materials, especially for the reconstruction of failed hard tissues. Many new alloy compositions, such as metastable Ti-Nb-, Ti-Zr-, Ti-Mo- and Ti-Ni-based shape memory alloys, biodegradable Mg-, Fe-, and Zn-based alloys, have been designed in the last decade to improve the biological and mechanical compatibility of metallic biomaterials. The development of methods for the design, production, processing, and surface modification of bulk and porous metallic biomaterials, as an opportunity to control their structure and properties, plays a decisive role in obtaining the optimal bio-functionality of final products. The efforts of many researchers are actually focused on the selection of an appropriate composition and optimization of processing routes to produce implants with a new combination of properties, ahead of analogues.
This Special Issue aims at publishing research articles, reviews, and communications covering the development, production, processing, and characterization of metallic materials and structures for biomedical applications.
Therefore, we invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue on the above topic.
Dr. Vadim Sheremetyev
Dr. Veronika Polyakova
Dr. Sergey Anikeev
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Ti-based alloys
- shape memory alloys
- biodegradable alloys
- thermomechanical treatment
- powder metallurgy
- additive technologies
- surface modification
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