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Overview of Current Additive Manufacturing Technologies for Titanium Bioimplants

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Titanium (Ti) and its alloys are the common biometals used for the manufacturing of various bioimplants for orthopedic and dental applications. These biometals are having fascinating physical and biological properties, such as high mechanical strength, high corrosion resistance and excellent biocompatibility. Commercially available pure titanium (CP-Ti) and (α + β)Ti-6Al-4 V are few typical Ti-commercially available biometals used for manufacturing of Ti-bioimplants. Recently, β-titanium with low modulus and innocuous elemental composition has been evolved as a new group of Ti for manufacturing bioimplants for specific orthopedic applications. Ti-bioimplants are manufactured via non-economic and conventional subtractive machining processes. Advanced manufacturing techniques, such as additive manufacturing (AM) provides an ideal platform to investigate and create more customized and complex bioimplant with porous structures. In addition, AM manufactured bioimplants have shown enhanced osseointegration over the preceding generation Ti-biomplants. This chapter reviews the current AM-technologies for manufacturing of Ti-bioimplants with an emphasis on processing parameters, developed microstructure and associated mechanical properties of the final product. The chapter also highlights the effect of porous structure on the mechanical performances of the manufactured Ti-bioimplants.

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  1. Biomedical Engineering and Technology Laboratory, Discipline of Mechanical Engineering, PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Vicky Subhash Telang, Rakesh Pemmada & Himansu Sekhar Nanda

  2. deLOGIC Laboratory, Discipline of Mechanical Engineering, PDPM Indian Institute of Information Technology, Design and Manufacturing, Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India

    Vicky Subhash Telang & Puneet Tandon

  3. Centre for Nanofibers and Nanotechnology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Seeram Ramakrishna

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Telang, V.S., Pemmada, R., Ramakrishna, S., Tandon, P., Nanda, H.S. (2022). Overview of Current Additive Manufacturing Technologies for Titanium Bioimplants. In: Pandey, L.M., Hasan, A. (eds) Nanoscale Engineering of Biomaterials: Properties and Applications . Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3667-7_5

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