Processing, Properties and Potential Applications of Magnesium Alloy-Based Nanocomposites: A Review

摘要

Strong, ductile, lightweight, biocompatible and non-toxic materials are the need of the hour for metal-based industries such as aerospace, automotive, electronics and biomedical sectors. Magnesium-based materials, due to their lightweight, excellent dimensional stability and mechanical integrity, have a tremendous potential to replace the existing commercial Al, Ti alloys and steels currently being used. Due to these attractive qualities of magnesium, there has been a spurt in the quest of a variety of magnesium materials targeting different functionalities. One subset of magnesium-based materials is magnesium alloy-based nanocomposites that exhibit advantages of both magnesium alloys and magnesium nanocomposites. There has been advancement in this field through careful selection of alloying elements and reinforcement and optimization to obtain the best combination of properties. Accordingly, this paper will focus on the recent developments of magnesium alloy-based nanocomposites capable of replacing conventional materials in multiple engineering and biomedical applications.