Biomaterial Science and Engineering

3 cr · Graduate

The course provides students with an overview of materials that are synthesized for, or have agricultural, environmental or biomedical applications, including their sources, physical/chemical/biological properties and applications. The course includes the synthesis/isolation/fabrication and characterization of biomaterials, and the structure-property relationship of those materials. Students will be exposed to concepts on several material characterization techniques at the morphological, chemical and biological level.