Course detail

Biopolymers

FCH-MAA_BAcad. year: 2022/2023

In the course "Biopolymers" students will be introduced with the basic biopolymers used in medicine, cosmetics, pharmacy and target applications of these biopolymers. Basic information will be given about the structure, physico-chemical properties and biochemistry directly relevant to their application. A significant modification of native biopolymers and the impact of these modifications on the final properties will be mentioned. The course includes basic principles of analysis and control of biopolymers. During the course, students will be acquainted with the ethical problems of application and testing of biopolymers.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Filip Mravec, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Physical and Applied Chemistry (ÚFSCH)

Offered to foreign students

The home faculty only

Learning outcomes of the course unit

After completing the course Biopolymers, students will understand the problems of relationships and characteristics of important representatives of biopolymers. Emphasis will be placed not only on the understanding of the relationship between primary structure and higher structures but also on the involvement of individual compounds in complex matrices, occurring in living systems. Selected examples will be able to derive general properties for that group of substances. Students will understand the evolution of biopolymers as well as you will be aware of the environmental implications of obtaining biopolymers. It also assumes basic knowledge of the ethics of the use of biopolymers.

Prerequisites

Recommended: Biology, Biochemistry

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching in the course takes place through consultations or is properly scheduled.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

The course is closed by an oral exam.

Course curriculum

01-Introduction
02-Drug delivery
03-Scaffold
04-Hyaluronan
05-Hyaluronan fragments
06-Collagen
07-Chitosan
08-Chitosan-Glucan
09-Synthetic polymers
10-Synthetic polymers II
11- Hydrogels
12-Analysis I
13-Analysis II

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The aim of the course is to introduce students a broad topic of biocompatible and biodegradable polymers. Topics are of two kinds: focusing on specific usage with a list of appropriate biopolymers; focused on specific biopolymers, whose examples are the general principles applicable to a particular group of biopolymers. Emphasis is placed on the context and application potential of the individual biopolymers.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

none

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

Abe A., Dušek K., Kobayashi S.: Biopolymers: Lignin, Proteins, Bioactive Nanocomposites. Berlin Heidelberg, Springer -Verlag GmbH, 2010 (EN)
Bhat S.V.,Nagasampagi B.A., Sivakumar M.: Chemistry of Natural Products. Springer Science & Business Media, 2005 (EN)
Carraher Jr. C. E. Seymour/Carraher's Polymer Chemistry: Sixth Edition. CRC Press, 2003 (EN)
Vandamme E. J., Steinbüchel A.: Biopolymers Vol. 5-6. Weinheim, Wiley-VCH, 2002. (EN)

Type of course unit

Guided consultation in combined form of studies

26 hod., optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Filip Mravec, Ph.D.

Elearning

eLearning: currently opened course