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ProfessorMaryRyan

Central Faculty, Office of the Provost

Vice-Provost (Research and Enterprise)
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 6755m.p.ryan

 
 
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Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Koronfel:2018:10.1038/s41529-018-0029-2,
author = {Koronfel, MA and Goode, AE and Weker, JN and Tay, SER and Stitt, CA and Simoes, TA and Mosselmans, JFW and Quinn, P and Brydson, R and Hart, A and Toney, MF and Porter, AE and Ryan, MP},
doi = {10.1038/s41529-018-0029-2},
journal = {npj Materials Degradation},
title = {Understanding the reactivity of CoCrMo-implant wear particles},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41529-018-0029-2},
volume = {2},
year = {2018}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - CoCrMo-based metal-on-metal hip implants experienced unexpectedly high failure rates despite the high wear and corrosion resistance of the bulk material. Although they exhibit a lower volumetric wear compared to other implant materials, CoCrMo-based implants produced a significantly larger 'number' of smaller wear particles. CoCrMo is nominally an extremely stable material with high Cr content providing passivity. However, despite the Co:Cr ratio in the original alloy being 2:1; chemical analyses of wear particles from periprosthetic tissue have found the particles to be composed predominately of Cr species, with only trace amounts of Co remaining. Here a correlative spectroscopy and microscopy approach has shown that these particles dissolve via a non-stoichiometric, and geometrically inhomogeneous, mechanism similar to de-alloying. This mechanism is previously unreported for this material and was not apparent in any of the regulatory required tests, suggesting that such tests are insufficiently discriminating.
AU  - Koronfel,MA
AU  - Goode,AE
AU  - Weker,JN
AU  - Tay,SER
AU  - Stitt,CA
AU  - Simoes,TA
AU  - Mosselmans,JFW
AU  - Quinn,P
AU  - Brydson,R
AU  - Hart,A
AU  - Toney,MF
AU  - Porter,AE
AU  - Ryan,MP
DO  - 10.1038/s41529-018-0029-2
PY  - 2018///
SN  - 2397-2106
TI  - Understanding the reactivity of CoCrMo-implant wear particles
T2  - npj Materials Degradation
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41529-018-0029-2
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/71824
VL  - 2
ER  -
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