Structural investigation of biodegradable Mg-based bulk metallic glass

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Mg-Zn-Ca glasses show considerable promise for use as medical implants. Magnesium, zinc and calcium are all elements found within the human body, and the biocompatibility of these glasses has been shown both in vitro and in vivo. Glasses in the Mg-Zn-Ca system have elastic moduli comparable to that of human bone, which minimises stress mismatch for orthopaedic applications. In order to model and predict the behaviour of these materials and potentially optimise these glasses for implantation it is important to have a good understanding of the local structure. We therefore propose to undertake a detailed study of these materials using a combination of neutron and X-ray diffraction and computer modelling including principal component analysis and classical molecular dynamics.

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DOI https://doi.org/10.5286/ISIS.E.61004242
Metadata Access https://icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk/oaipmh/request?verb=GetRecord&metadataPrefix=oai_datacite&identifier=oai:icatisis.esc.rl.ac.uk:inv/61004242
Provenance
Creator Mr Louis Forto Chungong; Dr Richard Martin; Dr Anastasia Gulenko; Dr Jamieson Christie
Publisher ISIS Neutron and Muon Source
Publication Year 2018
Rights CC-BY Attribution 4.0 International; https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
OpenAccess true
Contact isisdata(at)stfc.ac.uk
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Resource Type Dataset
Discipline Photon- and Neutron Geosciences
Temporal Coverage Begin 2015-06-04T07:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2015-06-06T07:00:00Z