Materials in Biomedical Engineering

Data is displayed for academic year: 2024./2025.

Lecturers

Zdravko Schauperl
PhD

Course Description

The course Materials in Biomedical Engineering is at the intersection of biomedical and biomaterials engineering. The focus of the course is on the development, properties and application of materials used in biomedical and tissue engineering. The materials – tissue interaction, techniques for characterization and testing of biomaterials will be learned. Students will gain fundamental knowledge in the structure of materials for biomedical application, their properties, but also processing procedures that affect the properties important in the application. Upon completion of the course, students will gain the basic knowledge needed to address to current clinical challenges in biomaterials across a breadth of biomedical fields.

Study Programmes

University graduate
[FER3-HR] Biomedical Engineering - study
(2. semester)

Learning Outcomes

  1. Use the terminology related to the properties, structure and behavior of materials in interaction with biological systems
  2. Distinguish the types of materials in biomedical engineering and explain their behavior in application according to structure and properties.
  3. Present the basic mechanisms of wear and corrosion of materials in the biological environment and characteristics related to their biocompatibility and toxicity
  4. Compare the characteristics of basic methods for characterizing the properties, structure and composition of materials in biomedical engineering
  5. Describe the relations of modern surface treatment methods on the obtained structure and properties of materials in contact woith biological tissue

Forms of Teaching

Lectures

Laboratory

Week by Week Schedule

  1. Lectures: Introducing the course. Course objectives, learning outcomes. Organization of teaching. Terminology. History., Laboratory: Introducing the laboratory and equipment
  2. Lectures: Biomaterials, biocompatibility, bioactivity, Laboratory: Testing of the biocompatibility and bioactivity
  3. Lectures: Atomic structure and bonding, Laboratory: Atomic and molecular bonds
  4. Lectures: Structure of solids, Laboratory: Crystal and amorphous structure, crystal systems
  5. Lectures: Bulk properties of materials , Laboratory: Mechanical, physical and chemical properties of materials
  6. Lectures: Surface Properties of Materials, Laboratory: Surface roughness, topography, morphology, SEM, AFM
  7. Lectures: Classes of materials used in biomedical applications, Laboratory: Surface roughness, topography, morphology, SEM, AFM
  8. Lectures: Metals, Laboratory: Metal properties
  9. Lectures: Ceramics, Laboratory: Polymer properties
  10. Lectures: Polymers, Laboratory: Ceramic properties
  11. Lectures: Composites, Laboratory: Composite properties
  12. Lectures: Surface Modification and Biological Functionalization of Biomaterial, Laboratory: Surface engineering (PACVD, PVD)
  13. Lectures: Degradation of materials in physiological environment, Laboratory: Analysis of material surfaces
  14. Lectures: Tissue engineering and regenerative medicine, Laboratory: Analysis of material surfaces
  15. Lectures: Biomaterials design and selection, Laboratory: Material selection (Ashby metods, diagram of material properties)

Literature

(.), Mohamed N. Rahaman, Roger F. Brown, Materials for Biomedical Engineering: Fundamentals and Applications, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-119-55109-6,

For students

General

ID 261432
  Summer semester
5 ECTS
L3 English Level
L1 e-Learning
30 Lectures
0 Seminar
0 Exercises
15 Laboratory exercises
0 Project laboratory
0 Physical education excercises