Metallic Biomaterials

alloy design3.2.3.1. Mechanical property requirements3.2.3.2. Material compositional design3.2.3.3. Toxicity and degradation consideration3.2.4. Methods to improve mechanical property3.2.4.1. in-situ strengthening3.2.4.2. Post processing3.3. State-of-the-art of the Mg-based alloy material research3.3.1. Pure Mg3.3.2. Mg-based alloys with essential elements3.3.2.1. Mg-Ca based alloys3.3.2.2. Mg-Si- and Mg-Sr-based alloys3.3.3. Mg-based alloys with high strength3.3.3.1. Mg-Zn-based alloys3.3.3.2. Mg-RE-based alloys3.3.4. Mg-based alloys with special biofunctions3.3.5. Mg-based alloys with improved corrosion resistance3.3.6. Mg-based alloys with bio-activated surfaces3.3.6.1. Drug-releasing coatings3.3.6.2. Biomimetic coatings3.4. State-of-the-art of the Mg-based alloy device research3.4.1. Cardiovascular devices3.4.2. Orthopedic devices3.5. Challenges and opportunities for Mg-based biomedical materials and devicesChapter 4. Development of bulk metallic glasses for biomedical application4.1. Background4.1.1. Oxide glasses as biomaterials4.1.2. Bulk metallic glasses4.1.3. Fabrication of bulk metallic glasses4.1.4 properties of bulk metallic glasses4.2. Non-biodegradable bulk metallic glasses4.2.1. Ti-based bulk metallic glasses4.2.2. Zr-based bulk metallic glasses4.2.3. Fe-based bulk metallic glasses4.3. Biodegradable bulk metallic glasses4.3.1. Mg-based bulk metallic glasses4.3.2. Ca-based bulk metallic glasses4.3.3. Zn-based bulk metallic glasses4.3.4. Sr-based bulk metallic glasses4.4. Perspectives on future R&D of bulk metallic glass for biomedical application4.4.1. How to design better bulk metallic glasses?4.4.1.1. Functional minor alloying elements4.4.1.2. The glass forming ability4.4.2. Surface modification of bulk metallic glasses4.4.3. How to manufacture medical devices using bulk metallic glasses?4.4.4. Future biomedical application areas of bulk metallic glassChapter 5. Development of bulk nanostructured metallic biomaterials5.1. Background5.1.1. Processing methods5.1.2. Properties variation5.1.3. Structure-property relationship5.2. Representative bulk nanostructured metallic biomaterials5.2.1. Pure Ti5.2.2. Ti alloys5.2.3. Stainless steels5.2.4. CoCrMo alloys5.2.5. Pure Mg and its alloys5.2.6. Pure Fe and its alloys5.2.7. Pure Cu5.2.8. Pure Ta5.2.9. Pure Zr5.3. Future prospect on bulk nanostructured metallic biomaterialsChapter 6 Revolutionizing metallic implant fabricated by 3-D printing6.1 Background6.2 The fabrication of metal powders for 3-D printing6.3 Metallic implants fabricated by electron beam melting6.3.1 Principle of electron beam melting6.3.2 Material characterization of metallic implants fabricated by electron beam melting6.3.3 Animal testing of metallic implants fabricated by electron beam melting6.3.4 Clinical trail of metallic implants fabricated by electron beam melting6.4 Metallic implants fabricated by selective laser melting6.4.1 Principle of selective laser melting6.4.2 Material characterization of metallic implants fabricated by selective laser melting6.4.3 Animal testing of metallic implants fabricated by selective laser melting6.4.4 Clinical trail of metallic implants fabricated by selective laser meltingChapter 7. The future of revolutionizing metallic biomaterials7.1. Tissue engineering scaffolds with revolutionizing metallic biomaterials7.2. Building up of multi-functions for revolutionizing metallic biomaterials7.3. Intelligentization for revolutionizing metallic biomaterials

focused on fabrication and applications of metallic glasses.Hong Cai is Associate Professor in Department of Orthopedics at Peking University Third Hospital, China. He worked over 10 years as Attending in orthopedics. During that time he also worked sometime as Clinical Fellow at Seoul University, Korea, University of Western Ontario, Canada and Rush University Medical Center, USA. His research interest is design and development of new implants and 3D printing in orthopedics.