Magnesium alloy covered stents have rarely been used in the common carotid artery (CCA). We evaluated the long-term efficacy of magnesium alloy covered stents in a lateral aneurysm model in rabbit CCA. Magnesium alloy covered stents (group A, n = 7) or Willis covered stents (group B, n = 5) were inserted in 12 New Zealand White rabbits and they were followed up for 12 months. The long-term feas...

The atmospheric corrosion of Mg and MgAl alloys was investigated. Corrosion tests were performed in the laboratory under controlled environment. CP Mg, AM50 and AZ91 samples were exposed at 95% RH and 22°C in the presence and in the absence of 400 ppm CO2 for 24 h to 672 h. The passive film was characterized by means of XPS, FTIR, AES and XRD. The film consisted of MgO/Mg(OH)2 with carbonate on...

Cavitation normally causes severe damage in hydraulic machinery such as pumps, valves and so on. However, cavitation impact can be utilized to surface treatment to improve fatigue strength of metallic materials in the same way as shot peening. A peening method using cavitation impact was named as “cavitation shotless peening” or “cavitation peening” as shots are not required. As increase of sur...

J. Przondziono, E. Hadasik, J.Szala, J. Wieczorek, Faculty of Materials Science and Metallurgy, The Silesian University of Technology, Katowice, Poland, W. Walke, Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, The Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland The purpose of the study was t o evaluate resistance to electrochemical corrosion of magnesium alloy WE43 after plastic working. Potentiodynamic...

magnesium is extracted with a chloroform solution of n-p-tolyl-2- thenohydroxamic acid (pttha) from aqueous solution of ph 9.5 .mg-pttha complex is colourless and the colour is developed by adding quinalizarin into the extract. lmax and e of the complex are 590nm and 2.8´103 lmol -1cm-1respectively.most common  ions do not interfere in the determination of magnesium. the spectral characteristic...