Journal
MATERIALS LETTERS
Volume 64, Issue 4, Pages 524-527Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2009.11.065
Keywords
Metals and alloys; Nanomaterials; Ultra-fine grained copper; ECAP; Corrosion behavior; Ion release
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Ultra-fine grained (UFG) bulk pure copper has been successfully fabricated by equal-channel angular pressing (ECAP), with the grain size about 380 nm after 8 passes. The potentiodynamic polarization results of the ECAP copper specimens tested in Hanks solution revealed that the corrosion current of UFG copper is higher than that of the coarse grained copper. The cupric ion release behaviors of UFG copper immersed in Hanks solution for 30 days only displayed a burst release during the first 3 days (in comparison to the 1-2 months for the conventional Cu) from 115 mu g/day to 12.5 mu g/day, after which the ion release remained constant and slow. During the immersion experiments. Cu2O was the only corrosion product found on the surface and it took 10 days or so to form a uniform Cu2O layer. Uniform corrosive damage on the surface and few localized corrosion is observed. The above results indicate that UFG copper could have high potential as biomedical materials for contraception. (C) 2009 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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