Corrosion of Titanium Biomaterials [Hardcover]

1. Basic principles of corrosion

2. Estimation of corrosion

3. Various biomaterial systems

4. Titanium systems

5. Corrosion issues in titanium biomaterials

6. Corrosion in SBF

7. Tribo-corrosion of titanium

8. Mitigation of titanium corrosion by surface modification techniques

9. Improving corrosion resistance of biomedical titanium through surface modification

10. Concept of new alloy development

11. Additive manufacturing of titanium and corrosion???????????

12. Concluding remarks

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This book deals with basic aspects of electrochemical corrosion of titanium body implants and associated mitigation strategies. It explains corrosion of titanium implants and current coating technologies for preventing corrosion in a body fluid type environment, titanium clinical failures and various regulatory statutory mandates.?

R. Narayanan has completed Ph.D. in the field of Anodic oxidation and cathodic HA deposition on Ti-6Al-4V for biomaterial applications from the Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, IIT Madras, during 2006. He completed post-doctoral research and served as a Research Professor in similar areas of research from School of Dentistry, Kyungpook National University, Daegu, South Korea. He has published an authored book on Surface Modification of Titanium for Biomaterial Applications. He has one patent granted from Indian patent office and published more than 70 peer-reviewed journal articles including an invited review article on Ion implantation. He works currently as a Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, VIT Chennai, India. His research interests include corrosion, coatings, titanium biomaterial broadly.