Reconciling in vivo and in vitro kinetics of the polymorphic transformation in zirconia-toughened alumina for hip joints: I. Phenomenology

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• 作者：B. Sonny Bal^a ; ^b ; ^{BalB@health.missouri.edu} ; Wenliang Zhu^c ; Matteo Zanocco^d ; Elia Marin^d ; Nobuhiko Sugano^c ; Bryan J. McEntire^b ; Giuseppe Pezzotti^d
• 关键词：Hip arthroplasty ; Zirconia-toughened alumina ; Femoral heads ; Polymorphic phase transformation ; Metal stain
• 刊名：Materials Science and Engineering: C
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：1 March 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：72
• 期：Complete
• 页码：252-258
• 全文大小：1174 K
• 卷排序：72

文摘

ZTA retrievals exhibit more severe degradation than that predicted by in vitro ageing kinetics. Retrievals' data suggest metallic stain as key in accelerating transformation kinetics. The initial monoclinic volume fraction influences the rate of zirconia transformation.