Plastics in Medical Applications

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This course focuses on plastics materials and properties and how they meet the unique medical application and device requirements. PL ET 483 Plastics in Medical Applications (3) This course studies plastics materials in medical applications and devices. The course focuses on the properties that are important to medical devices such as chemical resistance, sterilization and biocompatibility. A broad range of polymers will be reviewed including commodity resins, such as polyolefins, engineering resins such as polycarbonates, acrylics, nylons and advanced polymers including polysulfones, polyetherether ketones and aramids.The synthesis, production and structure property relationships will be studied with particular emphasis on the effect on sterilization, biocompatibility and FDA regulatory requirements. The effect of additives, stabilizers, fillers and blends will also be reviewed.