Rolling Zinc for Stents

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Episode 160 of the Professor Alex Volinsky podcast. As-cast Zn-0.8Li is brittle (0.2% elongation) and stent-useless; hot-warm rolling rebuilt it with sub-micron grains and nano-sized metastable precipitates, delivering strength with ductility. Companion to episode 158's implant study. Only the data table and conclusions were retrievable — stated plainly; nothing beyond them claimed. Based on the paper: High-performance hot-warm rolled Zn-0.8Li alloy with nano-sized metastable precipitates and sub-micron grains for biodegradable stents; Z. Li, Z.-Z. Shi, Y. Hao, H. Li, X. Liu, A.A. Volinsky, H. Zhang, L. Wang; Journal of Materials Science and Technology, 2019, Vol. 35, pp. 2618–2624. Hosts Elena and Marcus. AI-generated voices.

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