Coating, Encapsulation, and Surface Patterning

Summary of Courses

MEMS 209: Soft Wet Materials and Interfaces
This is an introductory course in the materials science and engineering of soft, wet materials and interfaces. The course emphasizes the relationships between composition, structure, properties and performance of macromolecules, self-assembling colloidal systems, linear polymers and hydrogels in aqueous and non-aqueous liquid media, including the role of water as an “organizing” solvent.

BME 207: Transport Phenomena in Biological System
This course introduces the modeling of complex biological systems using principles of transport phenomena and biochemical kinetics. Topics include the conservation of mass and momentum using differential and integral balances; rheology of Newtonian and non-Newtonian fluids; steady and transient diffusion in reacting systems; dimensional analysis; homogeneous versus heterogeneous reaction systems.

BME 247: Drug Delivery
This is a survey course on drug delivery in solid tumors and normal organs. The course emphasizes quantitative analysis of drug transport. Various engineering-related topics on drug and gene delivery are discussed.

CHEM 326: Transition Metal Ion Reactivity and Mechanisms
This course surveys the reactivity patterns found for transition metal and main group metal ions in solution. Mechanisms of their reactions are discussed with respect to ligand exchange, stereochemical isomerization, catalysis, and oxidation-reduction.

CHEM 311: Biological Chemistry
This course reveals the chemistry of the major classes of biological molecules, including nucleic acids, amino acids and proteins, carbohydrates and lipids. Topics to be covered include structure, reactivity and synthesis, and the interaction of biological molecules.

CHEM 336: Bioorganic Chemistry
Basic enzymology, mechanisms of enzymatic reactions, cofactors, oxidoreductases, C1 chemistry, carbon-carbon bond formation, carboxylation/ decarboxylation, heme, pyridoxal enzymes, thiamine enzymes are considered in this course.