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Antibacterial Titanium Produced Using Selective Laser Melting

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Titanium and titanium alloys used in current medical and dental applications do not possess antibacterial properties, and therefore, postoperative infection remains a significant risk. Recently, the addition of silver and copper to conventional biomaterials has been shown to produce a material with good antibacterial properties. In this article, we investigate selective laser melting as a method of producing antibacterial Ti-6Al-4V containing elemental additions of Cu or Ag. The addition of Ag had no effect on the microstructure or strength, but it did result in a 300% increase in the ductility of the alloy. In contrast, the addition of Cu resulted in an increase in strength but in a decrease in ductility, along with a change in the structure of the material. The Cu-containing alloy also showed moderate antibacterial properties and was superior to the Ag-containing alloy.

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Acknowledgements

This work was supported by Australian Research Council’s Discovery Projects funding scheme (Project Number DP110101653). The assistance of Dr. Gordon Wu in the SEM analysis is greatly appreciated.

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  1. School of Mechanical and Chemical Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia

    Andrew Macpherson, Paul McCormick & Timothy B. Sercombe

  2. School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

    Xiaopeng Li

  3. Institute of Metal Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shenyang, China

    Ling Ren & Ke Yang

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Macpherson, A., Li, X., McCormick, P. et al. Antibacterial Titanium Produced Using Selective Laser Melting. JOM 69, 2719–2724 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11837-017-2589-y

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