Due to their excellent comprehensive properties, titanium and titanium alloys are widely used in the field of biomedicine for implant materials, surgical and rehabilitation equipment, medical equipment, etc.
1. Implant materials
As load-bearing components are implanted in the body, implant materials must have a certain strength, and at the same time need to have good deflection and elastic modulus matching the human body to avoid material fracture and failure in the body. Through alloy design, material preparation subsequent thermomechanical treatment, and other process processes, titanium alloys can meet the requirements of medical mechanical properties. In addition, they have the characteristics of high specific strength, corrosion resistance, and good biocompatibility. They have been widely used in orthopedics, dentistry, interventional medicine, cardiac surgery, and other fields. They are used to manufacture bone plates, orthopedic wires, implants, and interventional equipment. With the continuous advancement of titanium alloy instrument design and manufacturing and medical diagnosis and treatment technology, the demand for medical titanium alloys is increasing.
2. Surgical and rehabilitation equipment
Titanium alloy has the following advantages as surgical instruments: the instruments are light, which can relieve doctors’ fatigue and reduce patients’ body damage; they are corrosion-resistant and non-toxic, and the wounds are not easy to be infected and heal quickly; they are moderately elastic and suitable for surgical forceps, surgical tweezers, and suture needles and threads; they have weak reflective properties and are suitable for operation under shadowless lamps. Therefore, titanium alloy surgical instruments are favored by surgeons.
Due to its advantages such as high specific strength, light use, and strong corrosion resistance, titanium alloy is also used to make wheelchairs, crutches, splints, and other rehabilitation equipment.
3. Medical equipment
Chemical substances such as acids, alkalis, and salts are used in the production process of medicines, which puts high demands on the corrosion resistance of pharmaceutical equipment. Because titanium alloys are corrosion-resistant, have high specific strength, and have good heat transfer properties, pharmaceutical equipment such as reactors, heat exchangers, condensers, and porous filters made of titanium materials, on the one hand, greatly alleviate the corrosion of key pharmaceutical equipment components, and on the other hand, improve production efficiency and drug quality, and are widely used in the production process of analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs, vitamins, anesthetics, and pharmaceutical raw materials.
In addition, titanium alloy has become the preferred material for the manufacture of nuclear magnetic resonance equipment components and medical infrared devices due to its lightweight, corrosion resistance, and non-magnetic properties.
Edgetech Industries LLC provide a variety of commercial pure Titanium and Titanium alloys in wire, sheet, bar, tube, and other forms. We also provide Titanium expanded/stamped mesh, Titanium wire mesh.