Special Issue "Preparation and Properties of Metals and Alloys for Biomedical Applications"

Dear Colleagues,

Metal-based biomaterials are the most widely used among other groups of biomaterials. These include titanium and its alloys, cobalt alloys, and austenitic steels. Less frequently, but with great potential, tantalum, gold, palladium, and their alloys are used. Great interest in this group of materials results from their very good mechanical, physicochemical, and biological properties. There is also a great potential to modify the chemical composition, structure, and properties, as well as the potential to modify the surface of products made of them. Susceptibility to the many processes of surface treatment, such as, for example, anodic oxidation, PVD, CVD, thermal spraying, and so on, makes them as materials with unlimited biomedical possibilities. Particular attention should be paid to their use in orthopaedic, cardiology, and stomatology. There are new methods of production and modification, including, in particular, additive techniques, emphasizing the production of excellent materials at low costs. This topic is dedicated to new and old type metallic biomaterials made by new and conventional techniques but with new and extraordinary properties.

It is my pleasure to invite you to submit a manuscript to this Special Issue that is related to the above topic. Full papers, communications, and reviews are all welcomed.

Prof. Dr. Jarosław Jakubowicz
Guest Editor

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• metallic biomaterials
• metals and alloys as biomaterials
• titanium and its alloys as biomaterials
• steels as biomaterials
• cobalt alloys as biomaterials
• tantalum as biomaterials
• noble metals as biomaterials
• new technologies used in metallic biomaterials
• additive techniques
• surface treatment
• metals biofunctionalization
• coatings on metallic biomaterials
• properties of metallic biomaterials