Metallic glass for bone surgery

Tuesday, September 29, 2009 - 13:07 in Physics & Chemistry

It is possible that broken bones will in the near future be fixed using metallic glass. Materials researchers at ETH Zurich have developed an alloy that could herald a new generation of biodegradable bone implants. Their results have been published in the online edition of Nature Materials...

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