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Advances in Metallic Biomaterials pp 125–156Cite as

Nickel-Free High-Nitrogen Stainless Steel

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High-nitrogen austenitic stainless steel (HNS) developed in NIMS shows high strength, high corrosion resistance, and nonmagnetic properties. This material was originally developed as a resource-saving type of HNS available in the seawater. It is well known that the nickel content of HNS can be reduced with increasing nitrogen content. In addition, it was found, derivatively, that nickel-free HNS was successfully produced with further increasing the nitrogen content, which is applicable to the field of biomedical area as an anti-nickel allergy biomaterial.

In this chapter, the following items are described such as production of HNS, mechanical properties, formability of HNS, corrosion properties, and the mechanism of the improvement of corrosion properties by addition of nitrogen. Finally, as one of the applications of HNS, R&D of coronary stent is introduced in terms of biocompatibility of HNS as well as in vivo test using the stents deployed into pigs’ coronary arteries. It is found that the stent made from nickel-free high-nitrogen stainless steel shows not only very excellent biocompatibility but also outstanding restenosis suppressant effect.

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Acknowledgment

Some parts of this chapter, especially Sects. 6.2 and 6.4, were created by partially referencing the final report titled “Advances in Steel Research on the Availability of Nitrogen,” which was published by ISIJ as the final report of the research activities conducted by a research group of “the availability of nitrogen on the improvement in steel properties.”

One of the authors (Y. Katada), as the chairperson of the research group, would like to express his sincere gratitude to the coauthors of the report.

The authors would also like to express their deepest appreciation to Dr. Motoki Inoue and Dr. Makoto Sasaki for their enthusiastic contributions to the research associated with Sect. 6.5. This research was partly supported by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) through its Funding Program for World-Leading Innovation R&D on Science and Technology (FIRST Program).

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    Yasuyuki Katada

  2. Biomaterials Unit, MANA, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1, Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-0044, Japan

    Tetsushi Taguchi

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Katada, Y., Taguchi, T. (2015). Nickel-Free High-Nitrogen Stainless Steel. In: Niinomi, M., Narushima, T., Nakai, M. (eds) Advances in Metallic Biomaterials. Springer Series in Biomaterials Science and Engineering, vol 3. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46836-4_6

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