Bioactive glass-apatite composite coating for titanium implant synthesized by electrophoretic deposition

Abstract

Titanium and titanium alloys are widely used as materials for implants, because of their mechanical properties and nontoxic behaviour, but unfortunately, are bioinert. In order to solve this problem, the metal implant could be coated with bioactive materials with good adhesion to metal and could be also bonded interfacially to the bone. The aim of this work is to investigate the synthesis of functionally graded glass-apatite coating on Ti6A14V alloys by the electrophoretic method. In order to enhance bioactivity of the surface, nanostructured hydroxyapatite particles were embedded in the glass coating. The influence of synthesis condition such as deposition voltage and time on the coating properties and deposit weights were examined. It was shown that controlling the deposition voltage and time, the deposition weight and thickness of coating could be controlled. It was shown that electrophoretic deposition can be successfully employed for the preparation graded glass-apatite coating on Ti6A14V substrate.