78649 - Laboratory of Biomedical Material and Technologies

Academic Year 2021/2022

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Chemical and Process Engineering (cod. 8896)

    Also valid for Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Chemical and Process Engineering (cod. 8896)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student has skills on the design and test of technologies and materials applied in the biomedical sector.

Course contents

The course will transfer knowledge on:

  • Fundamental structure and properties of the materials used in the biomedical field: ceramics and glasses, metallic biomaterials, polymeric biomaterials.
  • Structure, composition and characteristics of the main tissues involved in tissue engineering.
  • Interaction between biomaterials and living tissues.
  • Degradation and absorption of biomaterials.
  • Applications of biomaterials for the production of biomedical devices: biomaterials for dental and orthopedic implants, ophthalmic biomaterials, cardiovascular medical devices, scaffolds for tissue engineering, drug delivery systems, magnetic particles for biomedical applications, sutures, rapid prototyping and custom-made devices.
  • Specific processes for the biomedical field: sterilization, antimicrobial surfaces.
  • Introduction to biomaterials testing methods.

Readings/Bibliography

  • Slides from the lectures are made available on Virtuale.
  • M. C. Tanzi, S. Farè, G. Candiani. Foundations of biomaterials engineering. Academic Press Elsevier, 2017.
  • B. D. Ratner, A. S. Hoffman, F. J. Schoen, J. E. Lemons. Biomaterials science - An introduction to materials in medicine. Academic Press Elsevier, 2013.
  • R. Narayan, Biomedical materials. Springer, 2009.

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons.

Assessment methods

Achievements will be assessed by means of an oral examination. The assessment of the learning consists in the preparation and discussion of an oral presentation on a specific topic in between those described during the course.

The presentation should contain updated information on the topic collected by:

  • bibliographic research (reading of scientific papers on Scopus, Google Scholar, Web of Science… and patents)
  • web sites
  • companies’ reports
  • press releases...

Students have to expand and implement the knowledge of the subject and its discussion by updating/adding information to the main subject.

Teaching tools

Slides from the lectures are made available on Virtuale.

Office hours

See the website of Micaela Degli Esposti