TY - CHAP

T1 - Biodegradable Magnesium Implants - How Do They Corrode in-vivo?

AU - Witte, Frank

AU - Hort, Norbert

AU - Feyerabend, Frank

PY - 2011/4/26

Y1 - 2011/4/26

N2 - Biodegradable magnesium implants are currently breaking the paradigm of designing and producing only corrosion resistant metallic biomaterials. The academic and industrial interest in this novel class of biomaterials is increasing dramatically in the recent years. First biodegradable metal implants have been realized as vascular stents and bone screws. However, the knowledge of the underlying degradation mechanism of these metal implants remains mainly undiscovered. This lecture will summarize the current published knowledge and recent advances in elucidating the in-vivo corrosion processes of these novel biodegradable magnesium implants [1].

AB - Biodegradable magnesium implants are currently breaking the paradigm of designing and producing only corrosion resistant metallic biomaterials. The academic and industrial interest in this novel class of biomaterials is increasing dramatically in the recent years. First biodegradable metal implants have been realized as vascular stents and bone screws. However, the knowledge of the underlying degradation mechanism of these metal implants remains mainly undiscovered. This lecture will summarize the current published knowledge and recent advances in elucidating the in-vivo corrosion processes of these novel biodegradable magnesium implants [1].

KW - Biodegradable magnesium implants

KW - In-vivo corrosion

KW - Engineering

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84889218817&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1002/9781118062029.ch5

DO - 10.1002/9781118062029.ch5

M3 - Published abstract in conference proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:84889218817

SN - 9781118029367

SP - 17

BT - Magnesium Technology 2011

A2 - Sillenkens, Wim H.

A2 - Agnew, Sean R.

A2 - Neelameggham, Neal R.

A2 - Mathaudhu, Suveen N.

PB - John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

ER -