Course title: Advanced Materials

Department of Chemical Engineering

Yeditepe University

CHBE 561

Fall 2008

Meetings: Tuesday: 16:00-16:50 Room B-520

Friday: 09:00-09:50 Room B-520

10:00-10:50

Instructor: Prof. Dr. A. Cuneyt Tas (Dept. of Biomedical Engineering)

www.cuneyttas.com

Textbook: A number of scientific papers will be assigned (in a case-study format).

Reference books: 1.) Principles of Biochemistry: Mammalian biochemistry

Emil L. Smith, Robert L. Hill, I. Robert Lehman, Robert J. Lefkowitz, Philip Handler, Abraham White

McGraw-Hill, 7^th Edition

ISBN 0-07-069763-9

2.) Molecular Biology of the Cell

Bruce Alberts, Alexander Johnson, Julian Lewis, Martin Raff, Keith Roberts, Peter Walter

Garland Science, 4^th Edition

ISBN 0-8153-4072-9

3.) Biomaterials Science: An introduction to materials in medicine

Buddy D. Ratner, Allan S. Hoffman, Frederick J. Schoen, Jack E. Lemons

Elsevier Academic Press, 2nd Edition

ISBN 0-12-582463-7

Course content:

Integration of the principles of chemistry, biology and engineering to create new biomedical products,

Case-study format to examine recently developed biomedical products,

How a product evolves from initial idea; through patents, testing, evaluation, production and marketing,

Principles of materials science and cell biology underlying the design of biomedical implants,

Biomaterials-tissue interactions,

Artificial organs,

Synthesis of scaffolds for hard and soft tissue engineering,

Clinical design of implants and prostheses,

Comparative analysis of bioinert, bioactive and bioresorbable implants (case-study).

Grading:

Midterm Exam (50% ) + Final (50%) 100%