High-wear-resistance and high-tenacity medical zirconium alloy and preparation method and application thereof

The invention belongs to the technical field of high-performance medical alloy materials and particularly relates to a medical zirconium alloy high in surface wear resistance and integral tenacity and a preparation method and application thereof. The surface of the medical zirconium alloy is provided with a micron-level thick oxide ceramic layer is mainly composed of nonoclinic-system zirconia and a small amount of tetragonal-system zirconia; the matrix of the medical zirconium alloy is zirconium alloy, which is specifically composed of, by weight percentage, 76.5-100 wt.% of Zr, 0-19 wt.% of Nb, 0-4.5 wt.% of Hf and inevitable trace impurities as balance; an oxygen-enriched transition layer is arranged between the oxide ceramic layer and the matrix alloy, namely, oxygen is dissolved inside the matrix to form zirconium-oxygen solid solution. The high-wear-resistance and high-tenacity medical zirconium alloy combines the plastic deformation technology and the high-temperature oxidation technology and greatly improves the surface hardness, the wear resistance and the alloy strength, thereby having a broad application prospect in biomedicine, particularly in the aspect of biomedical implants.