Titanium has a tendency to gall when in rubbing contact with itself and other surfaces. A number of techniques have been developed to engineer the titanium surface and overcome this problem: In the ...

Titanium-based materials are widely used in medical implant technology, and coating the surface of titanium materials with biologically active molecules has recently shown promise to improve how cells ...

Numerous surface treatments are applied to titanium for a variety of reasons. The prevention of galling and the improvement of corrosion, being perhaps, the most important reasons. Galling not only ...