biomaterials

BIOMATERIALSBIOMATERIALS

E. Garrone

Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali e Ingegneria Chimica,

Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy

Europe

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Italia

Torino Torino (Piedmont)(Piedmont)

…about Torino:

• Village founded by Celts, became a Rome military colony Augusta Taurinorum (29-28 B.C.) and the first capital of Italy (1861 A.D.)

• Cultural sites: Egyptian Museum, Savoy Residences (baroque architecture), Mole Antonelliana

• Population: about two million people (with the surroundings)

• Sports: Juventus and Torino soccer teams.

• Industry: cars (FIAT) , advanced technology (ALENIA), telecommunication, textiles, industrial research, food (wine)

Has hosted the Winter Olimpic Games 2006!

Turin, a “white night” in the Olympic games

Two in the morning…

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Il Politecnico di Torino

http://www.polito.it

Our 7 Campuses in

Piedmont train about 15% of

all new chartered

engineers in Italy every year

Work opportunities

92 employed 2 years after 92 employed 2 years after graduation (national average 71)graduation (national average 71)

Out of 100 graduates:Out of 100 graduates:

84 employed 1 year after 84 employed 1 year after graduation (national average 61)graduation (national average 61)

• Founded in 1859

• 6 Faculties

• 18 Departments

• 900 Lecturers and Researchers

• 1,000 Administrative and Staff members

PoliTO: facts and figures

4 Engineering (17,000 Students)4 Engineering (17,000 Students)2 Architecture (8,000 Students)2 Architecture (8,000 Students)

• 17,000 full time engineering students, with around 4.000 new enrolled students and 1,200 graduate engineers each year;

• YEARLY 170.000 hours of classes • This year 608 Ph.D. students (3rd cycle) • 40 different degrees• 70 research laboratories, working in close contact

with industries and relevant public institutions

Teaching and Research Highlights

• Teaching (governed by Faculties)

• Construction• Civil Engineering• Construction Engineering

• Information Technology• Electronic Engineering• Informatics Engineering• Telecommunication Engineering

• Industry• Aviation Engineering• Biomedical Engineering• Car Engineering• Chemical Engineering• Electrical Engineering• Energy Engineering• Material Science Engineering• Mechanical Engineering• Technology and International Business

• Others• Environment and Land Engineering• Management Engineering

• Research (governed by Departments)

Aerospace systemsAnalysis & architecture of systemsAutomatic & computer-based systmAutomotive engineeringBiomedical engineeringCatalysisCatalysisIndustrial automationMaterials & construction durability

Material scienceMaterial scienceMechanical engineering

NanotechnolgiesNanotechnolgiesPhysics of condensed state matterSustainable energy systems Statistics & probabilities Mathematics for industry & physicsOther

International Links

• > 70 agreements with Universities located on the 55 Continents

• > 50 agreements with European Universities

• Joint and Double Degrees policy being enforced

• Specific programmes: ALPIPALPIP, MED, TIME, CLUSTER, LPI + MPI (from 2004/05 joint programme with Paris, Barcellona and Athlone(Ireland))

Incoming students: about 700 students from abroad

Asia : ~ 5 % Africa : ~ 5 %Far East : ~ 5 % European U. : ~ 45% Eastern E: ~ 15 % N. America : ~ 5 %S.America : ~ 20 %

Outgoing students: about 400 students to abroad

Courses Organisation (since year 2000)

Stage 1:foundation

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(Laurea Specialistica)

Stage 4:doctorate

6 7 8

(PhD)End of Secondary Education(Maths, Physics, Chemistry,… 13 years of school)

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The routes to the degrees

Politecnico di TorinoSCUola di DOttorato

The “third level” education is organized into a single horizontal structure, gathering all individual PhD courses

www.polito.it/scudo

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http://www2.polito.it/didattica/alpip/http://www2.polito.it/didattica/alpip/

TheThe ALPiP ALPiP project

Grants for students coming from Latino America to study at the Politecnico provided by Compagnia di S.Paolo, a major

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Teaching: DICHI provides teaching staff for degree courses in:

• Materials engineering • Mechanical engineering • Chemical engineering • Environmental engineering with various courses in chemistry, as well as ceramic, metallic,

polymeric and composite materials science and technology.DICHI organises student laboratories for Chemistry, Materials Science and Chemical Processes and Plants.

PhD courses:

• Chemical Engineering

• Materials Science and Technology with about 25 attendees every year. also involved in the Doctorate in Devices and Materials for Micro and Optoelectronics. .

Research Activities:

various areas ranging from

fundamentals of chemistry and materials fundamentals of chemistry and materials science to the production and behaviour of science to the production and behaviour of

engineered materialsengineered materials

In Material Science:In Material Science:

• metallurgy

• bulk ceramics

• preparation of ceramic nanoparticles

• preparation of nanostructured solids

and in particular…

Biomaterials:Biomaterials:

• Active bioglasses (E. Vernè, C. Vitale)

• Scaffolds (the same)

• Drug delivery systems based on

nanostructured solids (E.Garrone, B. Onida)

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E. Garrone: chemist (physical

chemist)Work on ceramic surfacesWork on ceramic surfaces

by spectroscopy, thermodynamics by spectroscopy, thermodynamics

and computational methodsand computational methods

(not really a specialist in (not really a specialist in

biomaterials…)biomaterials…)

Responsible for the PhD course in

“Material science and technology”

Content of these talks?Content of these talks?

“Biomaterial is a material conceived to interface with biological systems to monitor, support or substitute any tissue, organ or body functionality” (II International Consensus Conference on Biomaterials, Chester, Great Bretain, 1991).

A classical book, about 10 years old

Its table of contents

Continued…

The program of a course in Biomaterials at your University

The index of a well known firm (Aldrich) of biocompatible-biodegradable materials on sale

In this course:a selection of topics, based mainly on

the research at the Department, preceded by some general knowledge

on material science

Layout of the presentations

• Materials in general

• Biomaterials sensu stricto

• Case studies

biomaterials

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