Volume 21, Nos. 2-3, 2003

CORROSION REVIEWS

SPECIAL ISSUE: BIOMATERIALS CORROSION

Edited by N. Eliaz and U.K. Mudali

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Preface:

N. Eliaz and U. Kamachi Mudali................................................................................ i

Preface 2:

An Overview of Biomaterials-Novel Approaches and Applications

N. Lotan...................................................................................................................... iii

Biomaterials: Past Successes and Future Problems

D.J. Blackwood......................................................................................................... 97

Corrosion and Microstructural Aspects of Titanium and its Alloys as Orthopaedic Devices

Geetha Manivasagam, U. Kamachi Mudali, R. Asokamani and Baldev Raj . 125

Reconstruction and Regeneration of Surface Oxide Film on Metallic Materials in Biological Environments

T. Hanawa................................................................................................................ 161

Orthopedic Implant Fretting Corrosion

N.J. Hallab and J.J. Jacobs.................................................................................... 183

Corrosion of Copper Contraceptive Intrauterine Implants

B. Valdez, J. Sampedro, M. Carrillo, M. Schorr, T. Perez, and G. Hernandez-Duque 215

Failures of Stainless Steel Orthopedic Devices – Causes and Remedies

U. Kamachi Mudali, T.M. Sridhar, N. Eliaz and Baldev Raj.............................. 231

Book Review / Structural Biomaterials for the 21^st Century....................... 269

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