Polymer technology course (from 7.1.)
Polymers are everywhere—from packaging and toys to thermal insulation in buildings and components for renewable energy. In medicine, polymers enable a wide variety of products from 3D-printed, biodegradable implants and resorbable sutures to controlled drug delivery systems and advanced wound dressings.
This Polymer Technology course gives you a practical, technology-focused understanding of how polymers are built, how they behave, and how we turn them into real products—especially in medical and pharmaceutical contexts. We will explore questions such as:
- What structures can polymers form? (architecture, crystallinity, blends, composites)
- How do polymers respond to their environment?
- with temperature (e.g., glass transition, melting)
- under mechanical load (e.g., elasticity, toughness)
- during flow and motion (rheology and processability)
- How are these properties measured? (key characterization methods and how to interpret results)
- How do properties drive processing and performance? (extrusion, molding, fiber/film production, additive manufacturing)
- What happens after use? (recycling, degradation)
The course focuses on synthetic polymers and the core principles that apply across applications, with examples from medical materials—so you can connect polymer structure–processing–properties directly to real challenges in biomaterials, devices, and drug delivery.
First lecture Wednesday 7.1.2025 at 12.30 in aud Chromium, Aurum (3rd floor). Enrolment to the course in Peppi.
For more information, please contact Peter Uppstu (peter.uppstu@abo.fi).
