BMEG 565 - Biomedical Materials and Engineering

3 Credit(s)

This course introduces the students with the progress of biomaterials used in biomedical engineering. Starting from early civilizations biomaterials this course discusses modern advanced level biomaterials and their engineering principles associated with their biomedical use. Hip, knee Prostheses, implants, grafts, sutures, stents, catheters materials and their application in Biomedical Engineering are covered. Designed biomaterials such as silicones, polyurethane, Teflon, hydrogels, bionanocomposites are detailed. Modern biology and biomedical engineering such as protein absorption, biospecific medical materials, nonfouling materials, healing and foreign body reaction, controlled release etc are discussed. Surface-immobilized biomolecules in patterned surfaces are explained with specific examples of the use of immobilized biomolecules, immobilized cell ligands, and immobilization methods. Recent advances in biomedical engineering from the perspectives of inkjet printing of cells and tissues for 3D-medical textiles, nanofibers and films in biomedical engineering by electrostatic spinning, bio-inspired materials through layer by layer (LBL) assembly and biogels and advanced instrumentations in biomedical engineering are updated. Artificial red blood and skin substitutes, orthopedic biomaterials applications adhesives and sealants, diagnostics, biomedical sensors, extracorporeal artificial organs and ethical issues of biomedical engineering are discussed.