Coatings for Resorbable Magnesium Orthopaedic Implants

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Location: Coleraine, NORTHERN IRELAND

The scholarship will cover tuition fees at the Home rate and a maintenance allowance of £19,000 (tbc) per annum for three years (subject to satisfactory academic performance).

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J.G. Acheson, S. McKillop, P. Lemoine, A.R. Boyd, B.J. Meenan, Control of magnesium alloy corrosion by bioactive calcium phosphate coating: Implications for resorbable orthopaedic implants, Materialia. 6 (2019) 10. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mtla.2019.100291.

J.G. Acheson, S. McKillop, J. Ward, A. Roy, Z. Xu, A.R. Boyd, P. Lemoine, P.N. Kumta, J. Sankar, B.J. Meenan, Effects of strontium-substitution in sputter deposited calcium phosphate coatings on the rate of corrosion of magnesium alloys, Surf. Coatings Technol. 421 (2021) 127446. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2021.127446.

J.G. Acheson, E.A. Gallagher, J. Ward, S. McKillop, B. FitzGibbon, A.R. Boyd, B.J. Meenan, P. Lemoine, J.P. McGarry, Shear testing and failure modelling of calcium phosphate coated AZ31 magnesium alloys for orthopaedic applications, Surf. Coatings Technol. 429 (2022) 127944. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surfcoat.2021.127944.

P. Lemoine, J.G. Acheson, S. McKillop, J.J. van den Beucken, J. Ward, A. Boyd, B. Meenan, Nanoindentation and nano-scratching of hydroxyapatite coatings for resorbable magnesium alloy bone implant applications, J. Mech. Behav. Biomed. Mater. 133 (2022) 105306. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmbbm.2022.105306.

Y. Zheng, Magnesium Alloys as Degradable Biomaterials, 1st Editio, CRC Press, 2015. https://doi.org/10.1201/b18932.



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