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ArticleNature2025

Stronger and coarser-grained biodegradable zinc alloys.

Chengcheng Wu, Fengxiang Lin, Hong Liu, Matthew H Pelletier, Max Lloyd, Williams R Walsh, Jian-Feng Nie

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Article in Nature, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Chengcheng WuDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
Fengxiang LinDepartment of Physics and Engineering Sciences, Karlstad University, Karlstad, Sweden.
Hong LiuNational Engineering Research Centre of Light Alloy Net Forming, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China.
Matthew H PelletierSurgical & Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1643-6696
Max LloydSurgical & Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Williams R WalshSurgical & Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Prince of Wales Clinical School, UNSW Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
Jian-Feng NieDepartment of Materials Science and Engineering, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. jianfeng.nie@monash.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2768-2414

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Zinc is emerging as a key material for next-generation biodegradable implants

Identifiers

PMID39939767

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