This MSc. course focuses on the interaction between materials and biology. This includes the surfaces of medical implants as well as other situations where materials and biological systems interact.
This MSc. is intended for students who have completed a materials, chemistry, biology or medical first degree and wish to investigate the interdisciplinary area between these subjects further in more detail.
The degree concludes as most MSc.s do with a thesis, which can be completed with a company or in research.
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Implant materials are in direct contact with human/animal cells and must interact with them in various ways to function.
Materials can be created that degrade in the environment. It is also possible to create normal industrial chemicals from biological sources. These two aspects seem linked, but are not necessarily.
Biological Materials are often structured in a complex fashion. Similarly structured materials have been and will be developed to take advantage of the properties of such structures.
Plasma Coating of titanium under slightly different conditions