Magnesium Mg corrosion a challenging concept for degradable implants

Magnesium (Mg) corrosion a challenging concept for degradable implants 

Hannover Medical School, Germany, N. HORT and F. FEYERABEND, Helmholtz-Zentmm Geesthacht, Germany, and C. V OGT, Leibniz Universitat Hannover, 

Key words degradable metals, biocompatibility, in vivo corrosion, in vitro corrosion, magnesium implant. 

More than 200 years after the first production of elemental magnesium (Mg) by Sir Humphrey Davy, the attention to magnesium-based alloys as biomaterials has increased during the past decade with biomaterial scientists and medical device developers (Mantovani and Witte, 2010). Surprisingly, 

This degradation process can also be used to release drugs supporting or modulating the implant surroimding tissue response. The control and adaptation 

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