Preparation and Characterization of Polylactic Acid Coating on the Surface of Magnesium Alloy

Abstract:

Magnesium is one of the elements necessary for the body, is the man behind the body’s content of potassium ions within the cell are involved in a series of metabolic processes in vivo, including the formation of bone cells , acceleration of bone healing ability. Resulting from the good mechanical properties and biocompatibility, magnesium alloy is used in medical intervention material, but the high corrosion rate of magnesium alloys is the main drawback to their widespread use, especially in biomedical applications. There is a need for developing new coatings that provide simultaneously corrosion resistance and enhanced biocompatibility. In this work the medical magnesium alloy surface are dipped and coated with polylactic acid, so that obtain a dense uniform polylactic acid coating. And the corrosion resistance of the coating is studied in order to obtain controlled degradable and corrosion resisted magnesium alloy biological material. This paper mainly studies the influence of different concentrations of polylactic acid coating on AZ91D magnesium alloy corrosion resistance. The coated samples were immersed in Hank’s solution and the coating performance was studied by electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. This research is about the influence of the coating on the corrosion resistance of magnesium alloy through the open circuit potential, polarization curves, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy and Mott-Schottky. The results confirmed that the polylactic acid slow down the corrosion rate of AZ91D magnesium alloys in Hank’s solution. And along with the increase of poly lactic acid concentration, the corrosion resistance of magnesium alloys is improved. There is a wide variation of the corrosion morphology magnesium alloy AZ91D specimens after the surface modification using polylactic acid coating, compared with the unmodified.

• Periodical: Materials Science Forum (Volume 814)
• Pages: 132-136
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/MSF.814.132
• Online since: March 2015
• Authors: Xian Yang Hua, Mei Feng He*, Xiao Qin Zhou
• Keywords: Biocompatibility, Biological Magnesium Alloy, Corrosion Resistance, Polylactic Acid Coating

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