Smith + Nephew

Timothy John Band

Shilesh C Jani

Vivek Devidas Pawar

Jeffrey Joel Shea

Abraham Biglari Salehi

Gordon Bruce Hunter

Mark Lee Morrison

Hamish Forster

A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example cobalt chrome, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.

Applications of diffusion hardening techniques

A device, for example a medical implant, and a method of making the same, the device having a metal or metal alloy substrate, for example CoCr, and a diffusion hardened metallic surface, for example a plasma carburized surface, contacting a non-diffusion hardened surface or a diffusion hardened surface having a diffusion hardening species different from that of the opposing surface.

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Matlock Bath, United Kingdom

Timothy John Band