ABSTRACT Objective: The number of revision surgical interventions for degenerative spine disorders has increased steadily. However, the formation of adhesions is one of the more serious conditions accompanying this type of surgery. There are some generally accepted options for its prevention, such as delicate surgical technique, preserving the inte...
Ti and its alloys have a variety of applications in aerospace industry and medical implants. The formation of hydride has been used in biomedical areas and can significantly influence the mechanical performance of materials. In this work, we investigate the orientation dependence of hydride precipitation in commercially pure titanium via interrupte...
Optimized conditions for Ti film electrodeposition were investigated in water-soluble KF–KCl (45:55 mol%) molten salt at 923 K. K₃TiF₆ was prepared in the melt via a comproportionation reaction between K₂TiF₆ and Ti sponges. The K₃TiF₆ solubility was determined to be 1.48 mol%. Galvanostatic electrolysis was conducted on Ni plate substrates at vari...
Most of the vanadium (V) is industrially extracted from vanadium slag, a byproduct in steelmaking, via the sodium roasting-water leaching or calcification roasting-acid leaching process, which usually suffers from environment pollution or decrease in product purity. In this paper, a novel process of vanadium extraction featuring carbochlorination o...
Published in Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces
Bacterial infection of orthopaedic implants, often caused by Staphylococcus species, may ultimately lead to implant failure. The development of infection-resistant, osteoblast-compatible biomaterials could represent an effective strategy to prevent bacterial colonization of implants, reducing the need for antibiotics. In this study, the widely used...
Published in Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces
Nanoparticular form of titanium dioxide (TiO2 NPs) belongs to important industrial material. Despite being widely used, serious contradictions regarding biosafety of TiO2 NPs remain. We anticipate that such discrepancies could be due to a lack of understanding of a linkage between TiO2 NPs phase composition and cytotoxicity. Therefore, we synthesiz...
Published in Colloids and surfaces. B, Biointerfaces
Wnt/β-catenin signal transduction is involved in the homeostatic control of bone mass. It is well established that a titanium surface with nanotopography (Ti-Nano) favors osteoblast differentiation by modulating different signaling pathways. However, few studies have investigated the participation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway in the osteogenic effe...
The bachelor thesis on subject Ca / P bioactive coatings on titanium alloys summarizes current knowledge in the field of bioactive materials, especially titanium alloys. Their surface treatments and use of surface layers to increase bioactivity, osteointegration and to achieve better adhesion for subsequent bioactive coating. Its production and app...
Published in Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering
Titanium is predominantly used in the industrial sectors such as bio-medical, chemical, aircraft and marine because of its improved properties such as corrosion resistance and strength. Other properties such as increased toughness, hardness, poor thermal diffusivity make the material to fall under the category of difficult-to-cut, and this gave ris...
Published in Journal of Korean Neurosurgical Society
We introduce innovative method of cervical column reconstruction and performed the reconstruction with a flanged titanium mesh cage (TMC) instead of a plate after anterior corpectomy for cervical spondylotic myelopathy (CSM) and an ossified posterior longitudinal ligament (OPLL). Fifty patients with CSM or OPLL who underwent anterior cervical recon...
