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Figure 4. Step 1: the 3D entangled titanium wire material (A and E) was prepared with Ti wires. Step 2: the Ti-Mg composite (B and F) was prepared with high-purity Mg melts. Step 3: Ti wires were removed by HF solution and an open-porous magnesium scaffold (C and G) was successfully manufactured. Step4:open-porous magnesium scaffolds were implanted into the lateral epicondyle of rabbits (D). Image reproduced from ref.[82] licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 unported license, Copyright © 2016, Meng-qi Cheng.