Role of biomineralization on the degradation of fine grained AZ31 magnesium alloy processed by groove pressing.pdf

Materials Science and Engineering C 33 (2013) 1607–1615 Contents lists available at SciVerse ScienceDirect Materials Science and Engineering C journal homepage: www. else vi er. com/ locate /msec Role of biomineralization on the degradation of fine grained AZ31 magnesium alloy processed by groove pressing B. Ratna Sunil a, Arun Anil Kumar b, T.S. Sampath Kumar a,⁎, Uday Chakkingal a a Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, 600036, India b Department of Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, National Institute of Technology, Tiruchirappalli, 620015, India a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Groove pressing (GP) has been successfully adopted to achieve fine grain size up to 7 μm in AZ31 magnesium Received 3 June 2012 alloy with an initial grain size of 55 μm. The effect of microstructural evolution and surface features on Received in revised form 11 November 2012 wettability, corrosion resistance, bioactivity and cell adhesion were investigated with an emphasis to study Accepted 17 December 2012 the influence of deposited phases when the samples were immersed in simulated body fluid (SBF 5×). The Available online 9 January 2013 role of microstructure was also evaluated without any surface treatments or coatings on the material. GPed samples exhibit improved hydrophilicity compared to the annealed sample. After i