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Corrosion behaviour and biocompatibility of a novel Ni-free intermetallic coating growth on austenitic steel by hot dipping in an Al–12.6%Si alloy

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Commercial 316 LVM austenitic stainless steel samples have been coated by immersion in a bath of molten Al–12.6%Si alloy for 120 s. The coating consists of the Al12(Fe,Cr)3Si2 intermetallic. In vitro corrosion behaviour has been evaluated in the Ringer’s solution by means of potentiodynamic curves and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy. The results reveal that the coated specimens exhibit lower susceptibility to localised corrosion with respect to the substrate. XPS analysis suggests that the ennoblement of the pitting potential is due to the formation of a chromium oxyhydroxide containing passive layer. The intermetallic coating shows a good biocompatibility, as demonstrated by culturing human mesenchymal stem cells isolated from bone marrow which attached, grew and differentiated to the osteoblastic lineage to a similar extent on coated and bare steels. In summary, this study proposes a method that generates Ni-free coatings of the stainless steel with useful properties for biomedical applications.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by grants MAT2006-12948-C04-01-02-03 and MAT2009-14695-C04-C01-02-03 from the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spain), and grants from Fundación Mutua Madrileña. N.V. is supported by program I3SNS from Fondo de Investigaciones Sanitarias (Spain). We thank Fatima Bensiamar (CIBER-BBN, Spain) for excellent technical support.

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  1. Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Metalúrgicas, CENIM-CSIC, Avda. Gregorio del Amo 8, 28040, Madrid, Spain

    M. A. Arenas, E. Frutos, A. Conde & J. L. González-Carrasco

  2. Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Bioingeniería, Biomateriales y Nanomedicina CIBER-BBN, Saragossa, Spain

    E. Frutos, L. Saldaña, L. Labajos-Broncano, M. L. González-Martín, J. L. González-Carrasco & N. Vilaboa

  3. Hospital Universitario La Paz-IdiPAZ, Paseo de la Castellana 261, 28046, Madrid, Spain

    L. Saldaña & N. Vilaboa

  4. Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidad de Extremadura, Av. Elvas s/n, 06071, Badajoz, Spain

    L. Labajos-Broncano & M. L. González-Martín

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Arenas, M.A., Frutos, E., Saldaña, L. et al. Corrosion behaviour and biocompatibility of a novel Ni-free intermetallic coating growth on austenitic steel by hot dipping in an Al–12.6%Si alloy. J Mater Sci: Mater Med 22, 1005–1014 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10856-011-4284-9

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