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Commercial implants fabricated from commercially pure titanium (CP) and from titanium alloys 6 aluminum 4 vanadium (Ti6–4) have received a great deal of scrutiny from investigators of corrosion and mechanical properties. In its usual state, cp titanium is a somewhat soft and weak material by metallurgical standards. The Ti 6–4 alloy was developed for the aerospace industry, and while, if properly processed, can have excellent mechanical properties, the composition is not necessarily optimum for biomedical applications. Because titanium and its alloys depend upon a tenacious surface oxide to maintain “biocompatibility”, the surface state of the material is critical to its performance.
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FUKUZUKA, T., SHIMOGORI, K., SATOH, H., AND KAMIKUBO, F., “On the Beneficial Effects of the Titanium Oxide Film Formed by Thermal Oxidation”, Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Titanium, Vol. 4, New York, AIME, 1980, p. 2784.
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Young, F.A., Keller, J.C. (1989). Titanium Implant Surfaces. In: Williams, K.R., Lesser, T.H.J. (eds) Proceedings of the First International Conference on Interfaces in Medicine and Mechanics. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-7477-0_14
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