Surface Modification of Titanium and Titanium Alloys by Ion Implantation

Titanium and titanium alloys are widely used in biomedical devices and components, especially as hard tissue replacements as well as in cardiac and cardiovascular applications, because of their desirable properties, such as relatively low modulus, good fatigue strength, formability, machinability, corrosion resistance, and biocompatibility However, titanium and its alloys cannot meet all of the clinical requirements Therefore, to improve the biological, chemical, and mechanical properties, surface modification is often performed. In view of this, the current review casts on surface modification of titanium and titanium ion beam implantation (C) 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc Mater Res Part B Appl Biomater 93B 581-591, 2010