While titanium hip and knee implants do restore mobility to a great many people, they're still subject to failure. A new alloy could help change that, simply by adding a smidge of bendy, ...
NEW YORK — Bradley Little, a physical education teacher in Arizona, was leading his class through a school hallway in 2017 when he collapsed. Little feared he was having a stroke. Or, in a sign of the ...
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Titanium implants for hurt troops
The government and its private sector partner have teamed up to produce titanium bone implants for injured border soldiers, said deputy government spokesman Anukul Pruksanusak. The government has ...
A rapid manufacturing and prototyping system based on electron-beam melting technology can produce titanium bone implants with a high flexural strength and long cycle life. The system is based on ...
Titanium alloy Ti6Al4V, was used by researchers at the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing and Advanced Materials (IFAM) in Dresden, Germany. Scientists created the foam using a powder ...
Every year, more than a million Americans receive an artificial hip or knee prosthesis. Such implants are designed to last many years, but in about 17 percent of patients who receive a total joint ...
Medical implants could fail less often when coated with a microscopically crinkled, ceramic material designed by researchers at the University of Michigan. The coating is described in a paper ...
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