“…Briefly, they comprise the following approaches: microstructure tailoring including both grain sizes (Hoog, Birbilis, Zhang, & Estrin, 2008;Wang, Estrin, & Z uberov a, 2008) and texture (Xin, Wang, Gao, Liu, & Liu, 2009), alloying (Chen, Kirkland, et al, 2012;Hort et al, 2010;Kraus et al, 2012;Song, 2007;Witte et al, 2006;Xin, Hub, & Chu, 2011), preparation of biocomposites Mensah-Darkwa et al, 2013;Razavi et al, 2010;Witte, Feyerabend, et al, 2007), surface treatment (Gu et al, 2011;Guan, Zhou, & Zheng, 2009;Majumdar, Bhattacharyya, Biswas, & Manna, 2008;Xue,Yun, Schulz, & Shanov, 2011;Zhang, Zhao,Wu, Wang, & Wu, 2007), and deposition of protective coatings (Chen, Kirkland, et al, 2012;Hiromoto, 2012;Hiromoto & Yamamoto, 2009;Keim, Brunner, Fabry, & Virtanen, 2011;Mensah-Darkwa et al, 2013;Gray-Munro, Seguin, & Strong, 2009;Nassif & Ghayad, 2013;Shadanbaz & Dias, 2012;Wang, Gao, Zhang, Zhou, & Wu, 2007;Wang et al, 2012;Wang, Wei, & Gao, 2009;Waterman et al, 2011;Xiao, Yu, et al, 2013). One should stress that, to improve the corrosion resistance, the surface of Mg and its alloys might be coated by both calcium orthophosphates only (the vast majority of the cited publications in this review) and calcium orthophosphate-based biocomposites (Abdal-hay, Barakat, & Lim, 2013;Du et al, 2011;Hahn et al, 2011;…”