Speakers
Description
Grzegorz Dercz, PhD, MSc, Assoc. Prof., Izabela Matuła, PhD, Assoc. Prof., Magdalena Szklarska, PhD.
The development of today's medicine and its opportunities pose a new challenge for scientists, which is the development of innovative biomaterials that meet a number of requirements determined by their destination. Optimization of the mechanical properties and biocompatibility of metallic materials can be achieved by selecting the phase and chemical composition, heat and plastic treatment, and also by modifying their surfaces. All types of biomaterials and their applications will be discussed during the lecture. A particular focus will be placed on titanium-based biomaterials as an alternative to the commonly used metallic biomaterials. The course will also present the most popular surface modification methods of biomaterials, which allow maintaining the appropriate proportions between the mechanical properties and the material's biocompatibility. The last part of the lecture will discuss issues related to the production of biomaterials. One of the methods of obtaining biomaterials is powder metallurgy, which has been developing very dynamically in recent decades. This method makes it possible to receive materials from powders without melting the main component. This method allows for products from hard-melting metals (tungsten, tantalum), sintered carbides, metals with a significant difference in melting point, which makes this method very widely applicable.