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The current study evaluates the tensile response of Ti6Al4V EBMed samples subject to various electropolishing (EP) treatments. The surface roughness Ra readings can be improved from over 24 \u00b5m down to about 4.5 \u00b5m by proper EP, resulting in apparent tensile elongation improvement from 7.6% to 11.6%, or a tensile plasticity increment of 53%, without any loss of elastic modulus or tensile strength. Moreover, the in-vitro bio-corrosion test in simulating body fluid (SBF) of the as-EBMed and EP-processed samples is also conducted. The potentiodynamic polarization reveals that the bio-corrosion resistance is improved by the lower Ra through proper EP treatments. This is due to the formation of a denser and more completely passivated oxide layer with less defects after proper EP duration. But when the EBMed samples are over-electropolished, nano pitting would induce a degraded bio-corrosion performance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/ma12091466","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,9]],"date-time":"2019-05-09T08:19:59Z","timestamp":1557389999000},"page":"1466","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":50,"title":["Effects of Electropolishing on Mechanical Properties and Bio-Corrosion of Ti6Al4V Fabricated by Electron Beam Melting Additive Manufacturing"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"12","author":[{"given":"Yao-Cheng","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Materials and Optoelectronic Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0001-6538-4867","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Che-Nan","family":"Kuo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Bioinformatics and Medical Engineering, Asia University, Taichung 413, Taiwan"},{"name":"3D Printing Medical Research Institute, Asia University, Taichung 413, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yueh-Chun","family":"Chung","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Materials and Optoelectronic Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Chee-How","family":"Ng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Materials and Optoelectronic Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Jacob C.","family":"Huang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Materials and Optoelectronic Science, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung 804, Taiwan"},{"name":"Institute for Advanced Study, Department of Materials Science &amp; Engineering, City University of Hong Kong, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,7]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"371","DOI":"10.1016\/j.actamat.2016.07.019","article-title":"Additive manufacturing of metals","volume":"117","author":"Herzog","year":"2016","journal-title":"Acta Mater."},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Chang, J., He, J., Mao, M., Zhou, W., Lei, Q., Li, X., Li, D., Chua, C.K., and Zhao, X. 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