The patient will experience "chunking" of metal especially w/ bare Mg because of the super fast rate.
Would anodizing result in a extremely slow degradation rate(over 10 months)? Or would the oxide even break down in the body?
Thank you so much for your reply. Your actually very right, variables that effect corrosion are essentially unlimited and it would be impossible to model the rate in any software. I guess we can use the model only as a stress-point indicator to formulate an appropriate geometry for the stent...
Hi everyone,
Noob to the forums, but forum junkie in different hobbies. Anyways, my senior project is to identify appropriate bench test to characterize degradation behaviors of magnesium-based alloys (stents). Form of final device and complexities of an in vivo environment can impact...