Development of Ti-Nb-Zr alloys with high elastic admissible strain for temporary orthopedic devices

Sertan Ozan1, Jixing Lin2, Yuncang Li3

  • 1Faculty of Engineering and Industrial Sciences, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria 3122, Australia; Department of Mechanical Engineering, Ege University, 35100 Bornova, Izmir, Turkey.

Acta Biomaterialia
|March 31, 2015
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