title: New chemical treatment for bioactive titanium alloy with high corrosion resistance.
abstract: It was recently claimed that titanium metal and its alloys can bond to the living bone, without being coated by apatite (VPS coatings), but by being chemically and heat-treated. The bioactivity of treated titanium is of interest because of the opportunity to obtain orthopaedic or dental implants presenting, at the same time, high toughness, strength and fatigue resistance as well as bone-bonding ability. The bioactive behaviour of the treated implants is due to the presence of a modified surface, which, during soaking in body fluid, promotes the precipitation of apatite. The apatite formed is strongly bonded to the substrate and promotes living bone bonding. In this work were characterised samples of Ti-6Al-7Nb alloy with surfaces presenting a different chemical and mechanical state. The aim of the research was twofold. The first objective was to characterise chemically and heat-treated samples with different surface topography, in order to define the best conditions for osteogenic integration. The second aim was to assess the corrosion behaviour of the bioactive implants, because they expose a microporous and quite thin modified surface layer. No-treated and passivated samples, with a surface state closed to that nowadays used on implants, were used as reference. The surface structure, morphology, electrochemical behaviour and bioactivity of the different samples were assessed by means of XRD, SEM-EDS, anodic polarizations, open circuit measurements and in-vitro tests. Results evidence that it is possible to modify the surface of the Ti-6Al-7Nb alloy in order to obtain the formation of a bioactive layer and that the substrate roughness influences the characteristics of the surface layer formed. It was also evidenced that the as treated surfaces present inadequate corrosion behaviour, so a new two-step chemical treatment has been developed in order to obtain a bioactive material with good corrosion resistance.
authors.affiliation: SMIC Department, Polytechnic of Turin, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi, 24-10129 Turin, Italy. silvia.spriano@polito.it
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Spriano
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bronzoni
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Rosalbino
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Vernè
mesh_terms: D001672:Biocompatible Materials / Q000737:chemistry; D003343:Corrosion; D008422:Materials Testing; D008855:Microscopy, Electron, Scanning; D019736:Prostheses and Implants; D013499:Surface Properties; D014025:Titanium / Q000737:chemistry*
chemical_list: D001672:Biocompatible Materials; C070282:Ti-6Al-7Nb alloy; D014025:Titanium
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