Powder Metallurgy Preparation and Characterization of Titanium-Titanium Diboride Composite Targeted for Dental Implant

Due to the advantages over other metallic materials, such as superior corrosion resistance, excellent biocompatibility, and favorable mechanical properties, titanium, its alloys related composites, are frequently utilized in biomedical applications, particularly orthopedics dentistry. This work focuses on developing novel titanium-titanium diboride (TiB2; ceramic material) composites for dental implants where TiB2 additions were estimated be 9 wt.%. In a steel mold, Ti-TiB2 fabricated using powder metallurgy technique sintered five hours at 1200 °C. Microstructural chemical properties analyzed by energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), diffraction (XRD) evaluate impact of addition. Compressive strength, Brinell hardness, porosity, density, among physical also measured characterized. It has been found that adding Ti increases porosity (35.53%), compressive strength (203.04 MPa), surface hardness (296.3 kg/mm2) but decreases density (3.79 gm/cm3). The lightweight strong composite could suitable implant applications.