Tribological behavior and biocompatibility of novel Nickel-Free stainless steel manufactured via laser powder bed fusion for biomedical applications

Chinmayee Nayak; Abhinav Anand; Nikhil Kamboj; Tuomas Kantonen; Karoliina Kajander; Vilma Tupala; Terhi J. Heino; Rahul Cherukuri; Gaurav Mohanty; Jan Čapek; Efthymios Polatidis; Sneha Goel; Antti Salminen; Ashish Ganvir

doi:10.1016/j.matdes.2024.113013

Tribological behavior and biocompatibility of novel Nickel-Free stainless steel manufactured via laser powder bed fusion for biomedical applications

Chinmayee Nayak^*
, Abhinav Anand
, Nikhil Kamboj
, Tuomas Kantonen
, Karoliina Kajander
, Vilma Tupala
, Terhi J. Heino
, Rahul Cherukuri
, Gaurav Mohanty
, Jan Čapek
, Efthymios Polatidis
, Sneha Goel
, Antti Salminen
, Ashish Ganvir

^*Corresponding author for this work

University of Turku
Tampere University
Paul Scherrer Institute (PSI)
University of Patras

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Abstract

Due to the risk of releasing carcinogenic nickel ions from conventional 316L stainless steel under a corrosive human body environment, a new variant of steel termed nickel-free stainless steel (NiFSS) has been investigated. The present study investigates the tribological properties and biocompatibility of NiFSS manufactured via laser powder bed fusion (PBF-LB/M). The ferritic NiFSS exhibited significantly lower coefficient of friction (0.08 to 0.28) and wear rate (1.60 × 10^-6 mm³/Nm to 6.60 × 10^-6 mm³/Nm) compared to reported values for austenitic 316L SS, under both dry and simulated body fluid (SBF) conditions and various sliding geometries. This improvement is attributed to the superior hardness (3.394 ± 0.1340 GPa) and elastic modulus (238 ± 9.0797 GPa) of NiFSS. To assess the biocompatibility, the viability of mouse pre-osteoblastic MC3T3-E1 cells was evaluated with an Alamar Blue assay when the cells were cultured on top of PBF-LB/M built NiFSS and 316L SS samples. The results indicated that even though cell growth was most optimal on regular cell culture plastic, cell viability was better maintained on PBF-LB/M built NiFSS compared to 316L SS. Therefore, the results of the present study propose that PBF-LB/M fabricated NiFSS holds promise for application in biomedical devices for joint arthroplasty.

Original language	English
Article number	113013
Number of pages	13
Journal	Materials and Design
Volume	242
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.113013
Publication status	Published - 9 Mar 2024
MoE publication type	A1 Journal article-refereed

Funding

Funding: DREAMS TEKN TOT (2600577911); Tenure-track grant to Prof. Ganvir by UTU. Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering for funding the MSc thesis of Mr. Tuomas Kantonen. Adjunct Prof. Terhi J. Heino holds Business Finland Co-innovation Grant number 11/31/2023.

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Keywords

Additive Manufacturing
Biocompatibility
Biomedical Engineering
Laser Powder Bed Fusion
Nickel-Free Stainless Steel
Tribology

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Nayak, C., Anand, A., Kamboj, N., Kantonen, T., Kajander, K., Tupala, V., Heino, T. J., Cherukuri, R., Mohanty, G., Čapek, J., Polatidis, E., Goel, S., Salminen, A., & Ganvir, A. (2024). Tribological behavior and biocompatibility of novel Nickel-Free stainless steel manufactured via laser powder bed fusion for biomedical applications. Materials and Design, 242, Article 113013. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.113013

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