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What are the 3 classes of materials? (and describe them)

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  1. Metals - metallic bonds, sea of electrons
  2. Ceramics - ionic bonds, nondirectional
  3. Polymer - covalent bonds, directional
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What is an example of a metal?

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Titanium, gold, etc.

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What is an example of a ceramic?

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NaCl2, Hydroxyapatite

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What is an example of a polymer?

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PEG

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What is an example use of metal biomaterials?

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Dental Implants

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What is an example use of ceramic biomaterials?

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Bone scaffold, hip implants

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What is an example use of polymer biomaterials?

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Drug delivery, skin grafts

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What are the types of material degradation, and explain what their difference is?

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  • Surface - layer by layer removing
  • Bulk - equal degradation throughout the material
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What are some traits that can be controlled by changing a material’s surface properties?

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  • cell adhesion/spread, by modifying the surface texture
  • protein interactions
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What can you do to modify the surface texture?

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    • or - charge
  • increase the surface energy
  • change hydrophobicity
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What are two mechanical properties? Also, are they surface or bulk?

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  1. softness/hardness - surface
  2. compliance - bulk
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What is the equation for stress? (and units)

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σ=F/A (units N/L^2)

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What is the equation for strain? (and units)

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ε=ΔL / l₀ (units L/L)

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What are chemical characteristics?

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  • composition of biomaterial
  • chemical structure
  • conformation of reaction
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What are some imaging techniques that can determine chemical characteristics?

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  • NMR (nuclear magnetic resonance)
  • raman spectroscopy
  • FTIR
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What components make up a polymer?

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monomers

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Describe the structure of a copolymer

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different repeated monomers

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What are the steps of addition polymerization? (and products)

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  1. Initiation - radical combine with double bond to make two single bonds
  2. propagation - multiple units chain together
  3. termination - stop adding more units
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What is condensation polymeration? (and products)

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Combining multiple chemicals to form a product polymer and water

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Draw the structure of polyester

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-R-O-R-CO- (see pdf)

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Draw the structure of polyether

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-O-R- (see pdf)

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Draw the structure of polyanhydride

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-CO-R-CO-O- (see pdf)

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Draw the structure of polyamide

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-CO-R-NH- (see pdf)

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Draw the structure of polyurethane

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-O-CO-NH-R- (see pdf)

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What is the equation for PDI?
PDI = Mw / Mn
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What is the equation for Mn?
Mn = Σ Xi Mi
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What is the equation for Mw?
Mw = Σ Wi Mi
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Rank the 4 types of polymer structures from strongest > weakest
Network > Crosslinked > Linear > Branched | strongest > weakest
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Draw chain-fold structure
/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ | wewewewewewewew
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What is the thermoset process?
to set a polymer using heat
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What is a thermoplastic?
A plastic that can be reheated to change shape
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What are examples of elastomers?
* Elastic * Rubbers
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What are 4 structures of copolymers?
1. Random 2. alternating 3. bulk 4. graft
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What are types of natural polymers?
1. Polypeptides - protein - amino acids is hetero bifunctional condensation (zein, gelatin, elastin) 2. polysaccharides - sugar (hyaluronic acid)
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What is a common example of a natural polymer?
DNA (long length, bound with hydrogen bonds)
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What are the structures of proteins
* 1 (primary): Alu-gly-arg- * 2 (secondary): organization of local amino acids into alpha-helices, beta-sheets, and loops * 3 (tertiary): combine secondary structures * 4 (quaternary): 1+protein
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What are common side chains for alpha helices? (and examples)
* bulk side chains - uncommon * lack side chain - uncommon (glycine, protein)
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What are common chemical pairs in beta sheets?
* C-N in parallel * C-N * C-N antiparallel (more stable) * N-C (small hydrogen bond angle)
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What are advantages and disadvantages of natural polymers
* Advantages: bioinert, bioactivity, hydrated * Disadvantages: highly variable, hard to purify, immune response
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What are advantages and disadvantages of synthetic polymers?
* Advantages: cheap, reproductive, not animal derived (low immunigenicity) * Disadvantaes: unknown toxicity, no inherent cell interaction
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What is the equation for degredation? (and what numbers indicate surface vs. bulk?)
rate of hydrolysis / rate of H20 entry | >>1 surface, <<1 bulk
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What are 3 methods of degredation for polymers? (describe)
1. Biodegredation - mediated by biological agent 2. Bioerosion - physical dissolution 3. Bioresorption - polymers removed by cellular activity
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What is PEGylation
A process of conjugating one or more PEG polymer to a molecule to modify its size, hydrophobicity, and stability.
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What are benefits of PEG?
* Making a larger - reduce renal clearance * Stability - harder to degrade * Hydrophobicity - last longer * Increase circulation half-life
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What is bioconjugation? (give details)
A + B --> A-B (conjugation) The inative group A reacts with the initiating group EDC to form an active intermediate. This reacts with coupling target B to form the stable conjugate product A-B.
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What is the most useful functional group in cysteine?
SH
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What is the most useful functional group in serine and threonine
OH
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What is the most useful functional group in tyrosine?
PhOH
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What is the most useful functional group in lysine?
NH2
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What is the most useful functional group in aspartic and glutamic?
CO2H

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