When it comes to bone replacements, the go-to material is still titanium. Hard, wear-resistant, and compatible to the body, titanium looks like the best alternative to actual bone, maybe even better.

What the team didn't know at the time was that making titanium-3-gold at relatively high temperature produces an almost pure crystalline form of the beta version of the alloy—the crystal ...

Part of this mix was one alloy containing three parts titanium to one part gold, which had been formed at high temperature. Preparing the compound at high temperatures, as it turns out ...

A super-hard metal has been made in the laboratory by melting together titanium and gold. The alloy is the hardest known metallic substance compatible with living tissues, say US physicists.

There is, however, a small class of alloy systems (gold–nickel, gold–platinum and chromium–tungsten) to which this limitation does not apply. In these systems complete miscibility occurs at ...

What the team didn’t know at the time was that making titanium-3-gold at relatively high temperature produces an almost pure crystalline form of the beta version of the alloy — the crystal structure ...