BMES 4244-0

Brief

This course is designed to provide background in basic polymer chemistry, biomedical polymer and recent advances in smart polymers for applications in pharmaceutics, biomaterials, tissue engineering and biotechnology.

Description

Course keywords: polymers, biomaterials, analysis 一、課程說明 (Course Description) This course is designed to provide background in basic polymer chemistry, biomedical polymer and recent advances in smart polymers for applications in pharmaceutics, biomaterials, tissue engineering and biotechnology. 二、指定用書 (Text Books) 1. Charles E. Carraher, Jr., Polymer Chemistry 7/e. 2. J. S. Temenoff and A. G. Mikos, Biomaterials: The Intersection of Biology and Materials Science, Pearson, International Edition, 2008. 三、參考書籍 (References) 1. B. D. Ratner, Biomaterials Science, 3rd Ed., 2013. 四、教學方式 (Teaching Method) Lectures 五、教學進度 (Syllabus) 1. Introduction to Polymers 2. Polymer Structures: Introduction to polymers, Synthetic polymers, Natural polymers 3. Polymer Syntheses: Addition (chain-growth) polymerization, Step-growth polymerization, Ring-opening polymerization 4. Polymer Solution Properties: Dimension of an ideal polymer chain, Statistical thermodynamics of polymer solution, Dilute polymer solution, Frictional property 5. Polymer Bulk Properties: Transition behaviors, Viscoelsticity and mechanical behavior, Rubber elasticity, Swelling theory of network polymer, Diffusion in polymers and hydrogels 6. Smart Polymers: Stimuli-sensitive polymers, Biodegradable polymers, 7. Polymers in Tissue Engineering and Cell Delivery 8. Soluble Drug Carriers/Polymeric Micelles: Polymeric soluble drug carrier, Polymeric micelles and nanoparticles 9. Polyelectrolytes 10. Polymers in Pharmaceutics: Polymers & macromolecules in controlled drug delivery 11. Polymers in Biotechnology: Polymers in separation, Self-organizing polymers 六、成績考核(Evaluation) 30% The 1st Midterm Exam, 30% The 2nd Midterm Exam, 30% Final Exam, 10% On- class discussion, 100% Total

Timetable

Scores

Average Percentage 90.61

Std. Deviation 10.4

Remarks

本課程為16週課程

Restrictions

Compulsory

Elective

Cross Discipline

First Specialization

Second Specialization