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Scharnweber D, Beutner R, Rössler S, et al. Electrochemical behavior of titanium-based materials - are there relations to biocompatibility?. J Mater Sci Mater Med. 2002;13(12):1215-20doi: 10.1023/a:1021118811893.
Scharnweber, D., Beutner, R., Rössler, S., & Worch, H. (2002). Electrochemical behavior of titanium-based materials - are there relations to biocompatibility?. Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine, 13(12), 1215-20. https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1021118811893
Scharnweber, D, et al. "Electrochemical behavior of titanium-based materials - are there relations to biocompatibility?." Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine vol. 13,12 (2002): 1215-20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1021118811893
Scharnweber D, Beutner R, Rössler S, Worch H. Electrochemical behavior of titanium-based materials - are there relations to biocompatibility?. J Mater Sci Mater Med. 2002 Dec;13(12):1215-20. doi: 10.1023/a:1021118811893. PMID: 15348668.
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J Mater Sci Mater Med. 2002 Dec;13(12):1215-20. doi: 10.1023/a:1021118811893.

Electrochemical behavior of titanium-based materials - are there relations to biocompatibility?.

Journal of materials science. Materials in medicine

D Scharnweber, R Beutner, S Rössler, H Worch

Affiliations

  1. Dresden University of Technology (TUD), Institute of Materials Science, 01062 Dresden, Germany. [email protected]

PMID: 15348668 DOI: 10.1023/a:1021118811893

Abstract

For biomedical applications the physico-chemical properties of oxide layers, always present in titanium-based materials, are of special interest because the biological system is in direct contact only with these oxides. Using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and galvanostatic polarization it is shown that the different compositions of c.p.-titanium, Ti6Al4V, and Ti6Al7Nb result in different physico-chemical properties of air formed passive layers and anodic oxide layers. This may have a direct impact on the biocompatibility of these materials. Results of impedance spectroscopy distinctly differ in the flatband potentials as well as in the donor densities of air-formed passive layers with Ti6Al7Nb showing an approximately 50% smaller donor density than the other materials. Anodic galvanostatic polarization results in voltage-charge density curves with distinct differences in the Faraday efficiency epsilon of the oxide formation between Ti6Al7Nb and c.p.-titanium/Ti6Al4V, especially for low current densities. These effects correlate strongly with the donor densities in the air formed passive films of the examined materials. SEM-images of anodic oxide layers show a blister containing surface morphology of the outer part of the oxide layers for all materials. This morphology is probably caused by oxygen evolution, a process which relies on the transfer of electrons through the growing anodic oxide layers and strongly depends on the donor density in the air formed passive layers. Again, the much more pronounced morphology on c.p. titanium/Ti6Al4V agrees with the different donor densities in the air formed passive layers on the materials. These findings correlate with the good biocompatibility of Ti6Al7Nb and suggest that conduction mechanisms, in air formed passive layers and anodic oxide layers, contribute to processes that determine the biocompatibility of these materials.

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