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X N Gu1, Y F Zheng, Q X Lan, Y Cheng, Z X Zhang, T F Xi, D Y Zhang.
Abstract
The surface morphologies before and after immersion corrosion test of various chitosan-coated Mg-1Ca alloy samples were studied to investigate the effect of chitosan dip coating on the slowdown of biocorrosion. It showed that the corrosion resistance of the Mg-Ca alloy increased after coating with chitosan, and depended on both the chitosan molecular weight and layer numbers of coating. The Mg-Ca alloy coated by chitosan with a molecular weight of 2.7 x 10(5) for six layers has smooth and intact surface morphology, and exhibits the highest corrosion resistance in a simulated body fluid.Entities:
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Year: 2009 PMID: 19671953 DOI: 10.1088/1748-6041/4/4/044109
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Biomed Mater ISSN: 1748-6041 Impact factor: 3.715