BMEN3318 - Engineered Biomaterials

BMEN 3318 Engineered Biomaterials (3 semester credit hours) Covers properties and processing of engineered materials used in biomedical devices. Emphasis on the chemistry and structure-property relationships that control the mechanical, corrosion, and biocompatibility of materials used in acute and chronically implanted medical devices. Includes crystalline and amorphous states of metals, glasses and polymers; glass formation and bioactive glasses; mechanical properties; passivity and galvanic corrosion; phase diagrams; and macromolecular bonding and structure. Covers basic material characterization techniques including uniaxial tensile tests, x-ray-diffraction, SEM/optical microscopy, potentiodynamic polarization, infrared spectroscopy, and differential scanning calorimetry. Prerequisites or Corequisites: BMEN 1208 and (CHEM 1312 or CHEM 1301). (3-0) R