Bioadaptive Coatings on Mg Alloys: DFG project meeting in Berlin
The progress meeting of the DFG funded collaborative project “Bioadaptive Coatings on Mg Alloys” was held on 27th May 2016 at the Charité – Universitätsmedizin, Berlin, hosted by Prof. Frank Witte, pictured with Prof. Boccaccini. This project is a collaborative effort of the Institute of Surface Science and Corrosion of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. S. Virtanen), the Julius Wolff Institute and Center for Musculoskeletal Surgery, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin (Prof. F. Witte) and the FAU Institute of Biomaterials (Prof. A. R. Boccaccini). At the Institute of Biomaterials, the electrophoretic deposition technique is being considered as a suitable method for the development of bioadaptive protective coatings on Mg substrates. A review paper on the application of natural polymers as protective coatings on Mg and Mg alloys, written by the Erlangen members of the consortium, has been recently published [1].
[1] S. Heise, S. Virtanen, A. R. Boccaccini, Tackling Mg alloy corrosion by natural polymer coatings – A review,_Journal of Biomedical Materials Research Part A (2016) in press.
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