Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Title
Metals
Volume
10
Issue
9
First Page
1
Last Page
29
Publisher
MDPI
School
School of Engineering
RAS ID
32075
Funders
Australian Research Council
Grant Number
ARC Number : DP110101653
Abstract
© 2020 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. β-type titanium (Ti) alloys have attracted a lot of attention as novel biomedical materials in the past decades due to their low elastic moduli and good biocompatibility. This article provides a broad and extensive review of β-type Ti alloys in terms of alloy design, preparation methods, mechanical properties, corrosion behavior, and biocompatibility. After briefly introducing the development of Ti and Ti alloys for biomedical applications, this article reviews the design of β-type Ti alloys from the perspective of the molybdenum equivalency (Moeq) method and DV-Xα molecular orbital method. Based on these methods, a considerable number of β-type Ti alloys are developed. Although β-type Ti alloys have lower elastic moduli compared with other types of Ti alloys, they still possess higher elastic moduli than human bones. Therefore, porous β-type Ti alloys with declined elastic modulus have been developed by some preparation methods, such as powder metallurgy, additive manufacture and so on. As reviewed, β-type Ti alloys have comparable or even better mechanical properties, corrosion behavior, and biocompatibility compared with other types of Ti alloys. Hence, β-type Ti alloys are the more suitable materials used as implant materials. However, there are still some problems with β-type Ti alloys, such as biological inertness. As such, summarizing the findings from the current literature, suggestions forβ-type Ti alloys with bioactive coatings are proposed for the future development.
DOI
10.3390/met10091139
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Comments
Chen, L. Y., Cui, Y. W., & Zhang, L. C. (2020). Recent Development in Beta Titanium Alloys for Biomedical Applications. Metals, 10(9), 1139. https://doi.org/10.3390/met10091139