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Chapter 1c Metallic Biomaterials: Titanium and Titanium Alloys

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Comparison of international standards for titanium and titanium alloys (Refs. 1, 2)

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    H. Breme & V. Biehl

  2. Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Bayer School of Natural and Environmental Sciences, Mellon 337, 600 Forbes Ave., Pittsburgh, PA, 15282, USA

    Nina Reger & Ellen Gawalt

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Breme, H., Biehl, V., Reger, N., Gawalt, E. (2016). Chapter 1c Metallic Biomaterials: Titanium and Titanium Alloys. In: Murphy, W., Black, J., Hastings, G. (eds) Handbook of Biomaterial Properties. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-3305-1_16

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