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Xiang-Min Li1, Zhang-Zhi Shi1,2, Ayisulu Tuoliken1
1Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Materials Genome Engineering, State Key Laboratory for Advance Metals and Materials, School of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Science and Technology Beijing, Beijing, 100083, China.
Abstract:
A common problem for Zn alloys is the trade-off between antibacterial ability and biocompatibility. This paper proposes a strategy to solve this problem by increasing release ratio of Ca2+ ions, which is realized by significant refinement of CaZn13 particles through bottom circulating water-cooled casting (BCWC) and rolling. Compared with conventionally fabricated Zn-0.3Ca alloy, the BCWC-rolled alloy shows higher antibacterial abilities against E. coli and S. aureus, meanwhile much less toxicity to MC3T3-E1 cells. Additionally, plasticity, degradation uniformity, and ability to induce osteogenic differentiation in vitro of the alloy are improved. The elongation up to 49 %, which is the highest among Zn alloys with Ca, and is achieved since the sizes of CaZn13 particles and Zn grains are small and close. As a result, the long-standing problem of low formability of Zn alloys containing Ca has also been solved due to the elimination of large CaZn13 particles. The BCWC-rolled alloy is a promising candidate of making GBR membrane.
