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Tohoku University

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The novel Co-Cr-based biomaterial not only has a low Young's modulus (10-30 GPa) similar to human bones, but also has high wear resistance, disrupting the trade-off relation in conventional metallic biomaterials. These alloys also show a huge recoverable superelastic strain up to 17.0% - twice that of commercial Ti-Ni.

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Takumi Odaira et al.

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