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Preferred materials for personalized implants, orthopedic and medical devices are facing a multitude of high requirements at the same time. Besides biocompatibility, manufacturability and surface functionality, especially the adaption of complex geometries are current challenges that create the bottleneck between a material solution and the application reference.
The promising approach of using amorphous metals in this context has already been shown to be viable in practical studies and implementations. The properties of these metallic glasses are the focus here to form applications for previously unsolved problems.
The structural and mechanical properties, in particular the Young’s modulus close to the human bone combined with the high elasticity at high strength of the amorphous metallic materials, bring advantages in the use of compression plates or spine implants. Certifications according to ISO10993-5 and ISO10993-12 are already available for AMLOY alloys and show an excellent classification of biocompatibility.
Likewise, this product range is already applicable in 3D-printing, so that the individualized components of medical applications can be manufactured with high quality according to the state of the art. Due to their unique atomic structure and the absence of grain and phase boundaries, as well as a resulting high corrosion resistance and MRI-compatibility, amorphous metals enable their beneficial use in many other medical applications including dental and prosthetics. Advantageous approaches can also be shown for yet unsolved implementations such as bone implants in the costal arch region.
In summary, conventional materials are reaching their limits in the areas of bone-implant-interaction, reproducible manufacturability and surface functionality, for example in customized humeral plates or mechanical heart valves. At the same time, these demanding applications demonstrate the advantageous fields of action of amorphous metals, which unfold their potential in these challenges and open up new possibilities.
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| Speaker Country | Germany |
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