3 credits
Spring 2025 Lecture Distance Learning Upper Division
This course aims to introduce students to Biomaterials concepts: structure, properties, and applications. The class will cover the main classes of materials: metals, ceramics and polymers in the context of their use in medicine as implant materials, drug delivery vehicles, and as tissue engineering scaffolds. Permission of instructor required.
Learning Outcomes1Be familiar with the main concepts of Biomaterials principles: biocompatibility, structure-property-applications relationships, mechanical response of natural tissues, cellular pathways for tissue-material ingrowth.
2Understand the requirements for metals and alloys, as well as ceramic materials to be used in load bearing implants (corrosion concepts, stress shielding, mechanical properties, composition).
3Understand what properties of polymers impact their use in medicine (leaching and swelling, creep and stress relaxation).
4Understand the tissue response to biomaterials: cytotoxicity, carcinogenicity, immune reactions.
5Be able to expand the understanding of materials concepts to drug delivery applications (polymer degradation, encapsulation) and tissue engineering (scaffold porosity, diffusion of nutrients, mechanical properties).
Restrictions
made by Purdue students.