Corrosion behaviour of porous Ni-free Ti-based bulk metallic glass produced by spark plasma sintering in Hanks' solution

Guoqiang Xie, Fengxiang Qin, Shengli Zhu, D. V. Louzguine-Lugzin

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Abstract

Porous bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) are promising biomedical materials to be used for surgical implants. Here we report on successful formation of porous Ni-free Ti-based BMGs with a diameter exceeding 15 mm by spark plasma sintering the mixture of the gas-atomized Ti-based (Ti45Zr10Cu 31Pd10Sn4) glassy alloy powder and solid salt powder, followed by leaching treatment into water to eliminate the salt phase. Corrosion behaviour of the produced porous Ti-based BMGs was investigated in Hanks' solution. The potentiodynamic polarization curves showed that the anodic current density in the porous Ti-based BMGs slowly increased during anodic polarization, suggesting the crevice corrosion.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)55-59
Number of pages5
JournalIntermetallics
Volume44
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2014

Keywords

  • B. Glasses metallic
  • C. Powder metallurgy, including consolidation
  • C. Rapid solidification processing
  • F. Corrosion behaviour
  • F. Electron microscopy, scanning

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