Material design and bioactivity of 3D printed biofunctional tantalum-based bone implants (IMAGE)

International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing

Material design and bioactivity of 3D printed biofunctional tantalum-based bone implants

Caption

By optimizing the material design during 3D printing, the enhancement of the bioactivity of porous tantalum (pTa) bone implants can be better achieved.

Credit

By Manyuan Wu, Mingchun Zhao, Ying Cai*, Jiangang Yao, Ping Wang, and Andrej Atrens.

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CC BY

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