Mechanical, corrosion, and wear performances of a biocompatible Ti-based glassy alloy

The mechanical, electrochemical, wear, and corrosive-wear behaviors of a TiZrCuPd bulk glassy alloy were investigated. The Ti-based glassy alloy demonstrates a high yield strength of 2.3 GPa, low Young's modulus of 95 GPa, and Vickers microhardness of 7.2 GPa, which are superior to those of the Ti-6Al-4V biomedical alloy. The TiZrCuPd glassy alloy shows a good corrosion resistance in the phosphate buffer saline (PBS) solution, owing to the...