212th ECS Meeting, Abstract #822, The Electrochemical Society

Passivation treatment of a Co-Ni-Cr-Mo alloy for

biomedical material application

A. Ornberg
a,b
, J. Pan
a
, M. Herstedt
b
and C. Leygraf
a

a
Div. of Corrosion Science, Dept. of Chemistry, Royal
Institute of Technology, Drottning Kristinas vg. 51, SE-
100 44 Stockholm, Sweden
b
St. Jude Medical AB, Veddestavgen 19, SE-175 84
Jrflla, Sweden

Co-based alloys are commonly used for biomedical
applications, e.g., a Co-Ni-Cr-Mo super alloy (MP35N or
35N LT) alloy is used as thin wires in implantable
medical devices. The alloy has an excellent corrosion
resistance due to the high contents of alloying elements
like Cr and Mo. In this study, to further reduce the metal
release, passivation of 35N LT was performed by a
chemical treatment in an HNO
3
solution. The corrosion
resistance of the alloy in simplified synthetic biological
solutions was evaluated by potentiodynamic polarization
and electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS)
measurements. Metal release from the alloy during the
passivation treatment and during exposure to a synthetic
biological solution was determined by solution analysis