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Orthopedic implant surgeries including artificial joint replacement, spinal instrumentation, and fracture repair are becoming frequent. While such procedures can improve the quality of life, they have ...

Typical physical-vapor-deposition (PVD) hard coatings are 20 times thinner than a human hair, yet they can drastically improve performance, boost reliability, and extend service lives of tool and ...