The effect of nitrogen diffusion hardening on the surface chemistry and scratch resistance of Ti-6Al-4V alloy

Biomaterials

Volumn 21, Issue 16, 2000, Pages 1669-1677

  Venugopalan, Ramakrishna ^a   Weimer, Jeffrey J ^b   George, Michael A ^b   Lucas, Linda C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion hardening; Surface chemistry; Titanium alloy

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION EFFECTS; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; HARDENING; HIP PROSTHESES; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); NITROGEN; SPECTROSCOPY; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACES;

DIFFUSION HARDENING; ELECTROCHEMICAL IMPEDANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MECHANICAL ELECTROCHEMICAL INTERACTIONS; SCRATCH RESISTANCE; TITANIUM ALUMINIDE;

TITANIUM ALLOYS;

NITROGEN; TITANIUM;

ARTICLE; BIOCOMPATIBILITY; DIFFUSION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SAMPLING; SOLID STATE; SURFACE PROPERTY; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS;

ALLOYS; ALUMINUM; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; NITROGEN; SURFACE PROPERTIES; TITANIUM;

EID: 0034081064     PISSN: 01429612     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0142-9612(00)00049-1     Document Type: Article

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