Fast galvanic lithium corrosion involving a Kirkendall-type mechanism

Galvanic Corrosion Behavior of Dental Alloys

There is a wide variety of dental alloys, ranging from nearly pure gold and conventional gold-based alloys to alloys based on silver, palladium, nickel, cobalt, iron, titanium, tin, and other metals (Table 1). The types of dental alloys have increased significantly since 1980s in order to change the market price of gold and palladium. Although gold alloys are the mate‐ rials of choice in this a...

Theoretical Investigation of the Reaction Mechanism for a Type of N-heterocyclic Compound Involving Mono-N-aryl-3-aminodihydropyrrol

The kinetics of reaction between 4-methylaniline (1), dimethyl acetylenedicarboxylate (2) and formaldehyde (4) has been theoretically investigated to gain further insight into the reaction mechanism. The results of theoretical calculations were achieved using the ab initio method at the HF/6-311g (d, p) level of theory in gas phase. The mechanism of this reaction had 5 steps. Theoretical kineti...

Finite Element Modeling of Galvanic Corrosion of Metals

Galvanic corrosion between orthodontic wires and brackets in fluoride mouthwashes.

The aim of this investigation was to determine the influence of fluoride in certain mouthwashes on the risk of corrosion through galvanic coupling of orthodontic wires and brackets. Two titanium alloy wires, nickel-titanium (NiTi) and copper-nickel-titanium (CuNiTi), and the three most commonly used brackets, titanium (Ti), iron-chromium-nickel (FeCrNi) and cobalt-chromium (CoCr), were tested i...

Pseudarthrosis due to galvanic corrosion presenting as subarachnoid hemorrhage

Two unlike metals near one another can break down as they move toward electrochemical equilibrium resulting in galvanic corrosion. We describe a case of electrochemical corrosion resulting in pseudarthrosis, followed by instrumentation failure leading to subarachnoid hemorrhage. A 53-year-old female with a history of cervical instability and two separate prior cervical fusion surgery with subla...