“…Calcium phosphates represent a big promise for they can be used as biomedical coatings on magnesium substrates [16]. The literature of the last couple of years enumerates several methods for hydroxyapatite deposition on magnesium/Mg alloys: sol-gel coating [17], electrodeposition [18,19], a cathodic arc PVD technique [20], chemical solution deposition [21][22][23], dipping and immersion [24,25], cold spray deposition [26], plasma electrolytic oxidation [27,28], and a transonic particle acceleration deposition process [29]. However, the available literature presenting hydroxyapatite coatings deposition with atmospheric plasma spraying on magnesium alloy substrates is incomplete.…”