In-vitro bioactivity evaluation of titanium layers manufactured on implants with LENS method
Laser Engineering Net Shaping (LENS), which is one of the 3DP techniques, allows for both, the fabrication and the modification of surface layer of the product previously prepared. In the current work, using LENS technique, highly developed bioactive layers, were prepared on the surface of the hip prosthesis. Both, fabricated layers and hip prosthesis, were fabricated from Ti-6Al-4V alloy. The tests were carried out using Simulated Body Fluid (SBF) solution, having all the necessary components on the inorganic human blood plasma. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) showed the nucleation of calcium phosphates even after 2 days of immersion. Based on the results obtained in SEM and EDX tests, it can be claimed that Ti-6Al-4V layers manufactured using LENS technique exhibit high bioactivity in in-vitro, in the SBF solution.