Fig.2. Test results reported about self-ageing performance of medical zinc alloys at room temperature (a)[37] compared with those of degradable Zn-Cu alloys developed by our research team (b) (Fig.2a shows that the tensile elongation of the Zn-Mg alloy[37] was 30% when it was newly made, and dropped sharply to 4% after one year's storage at room temperature, indicating obvious self-ageing characteristics. While the patent Zn-Cu alloy developed by our team showed almost the same tensile elongation of 58% after 20 months' storage at room temperature, showing excellent anti-ageing and deformability)
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