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It’s a titanium alloy (Ti-6-4) that’s commonly used in medical implants, and it probably melts at pretty high temp - the wrought form is used in turbine engine
by rsfern 2y ago
It’s a titanium alloy (Ti-6-4) that’s commonly used in medical implants, and it probably melts at pretty high temp - the wrought form is used in turbine engine compression disks
This is like a 3D printed metal scaffold, in the paper they’re doing compression tests. Probably more likely structural applications than medical I’m guessing
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti-6Al-4V https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ti-6Al-4V
- capitainenemo 2y agohttps://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7634595/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7634595/ ← from a search for qualities searched for in implants. "The primary advantage of TiAlV over CoCrMb is a lower modulus of elasticity. This results in decreased stress shielding and subsequent favorable femoral remodeling." This new material might do well there.. "TiAlV has been shown to achieve excellent bone ingrowth into porous surfaces." Well, given they printed this structure almost as a sponge it probably would do well on that front too.
- rsfern 2y agoTo be honest I don’t know too much about the biomedical side, I’m probably jumping to conclusions on what the materials research directions are there - originally I was just going to joke about how you might hope it doesn’t hit its melting temperature if it’s used in a medical implant as it starts to melt around 1600 C