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Enhancement of Plasticity and Biocorrosion Resistance in a Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation-Treated Mg-Based Amorphous Alloy Composite

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We report on a plasma electrolytic oxidation (PEO)-treated Mg-Zn-Ca-Si amorphous alloy composite with enhancement of plasticity and corrosion resistance. The coated composite material exhibits excellent mechanical properties in compression, with a large plastic strain of 11.2% and a high fracture strength of 709 MPa. The enhanced plasticity may mainly ascribe to the partial nanocrystallization of amorphous phase in composite during PEO process, which can not only prevent runway localized plastic flow due to work softening, but also can introduce nucleation sites for the bands resulting from stress mismatch and compositional heterogeneity. Moreover, comparing with bare amorphous alloy composite, the corrosion current density measured in stimulated body fluid for the PEO-treated specimen decreases from 1.08 × 10−3 to 4.45 × 10−7 A/cm2. The present study may provide a fundamental basis for developing high-performance biodegradable Mg alloys.Please check the edit made in the article title.Yes, I have checked. There is no problem.

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The authors are grateful to Prof. I. Todd, Dr Q. Hu, and Dr G.S. Peng for stimulating discussions. The authors would like to acknowledge the financial support by the fund of Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Province (Grant No. 1908085ME147), International Cooperation and Exchanges in Anhui Provincial Key Project of Research (Grant Nos. 202004b11020010), Natural Science Foundation of Anhui Provincial Education Department (Grant No. KJ2020A0262), Open Project of Key Laboratory of Green Fabrication and Surface Technology of Advanced Metal Materials (Grant No. GFST2022ZR10), and College Students’ Innovative Entrepreneurial Training Program (S202110360179).

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S.S. Chen involved in conceptualization and methodology. P.D. Song took part in data curtion and writing—original draft. J. Yin participated in formal analysis and investigation. K. Qi involved in writing—review & editing. H.D. Li took part in data curtion. L. Hou involved in validation. W.H. Li took part in supervision.

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Chen, S.S., Song, P.D., Yin, J. et al. Enhancement of Plasticity and Biocorrosion Resistance in a Plasma Electrolytic Oxidation-Treated Mg-Based Amorphous Alloy Composite. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 32, 2298–2306 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-022-07285-3

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