Master Programs in Materials

Materials science & engineering is an interdisciplinary field involving the properties of matter and its applications to various areas of science and engineering. This science investigates the relationship between the structure of materials at atomic or molecular scales and their macroscopic properties. It includes elements of applied physics and chemistry, as well as chemical, mechanical, civil and electrical engineering.

Bagi yang berminat melanjutkan studi Master di bidang Teknik Material, terbuka banyak kesempatan. Berikut beberapa program master yang ditawarkan oleh program Erasmus Mundus, dimana terdapat kesempatan beasiswa:

• Erasmus Mundus Master in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (EMM Nano)
• Advanced Materials Science and Engeneering (AMASE)
• European Master Course Materials for Energy Storage and Conversion (MESC)
• Master in Materials Science Exploiting European Large scale Facilities (MaMaSELF)
• Functionalized Advanced Materials and Engineering (FAME)
• European Masters in Materials Science (EMMS)
• International Master in Materials and Sensor System for Environmental Technologies (IMMSSET)

MaMaSELF

MaMaSELF (Master in Materials Science Exploiting Large scale Facilities) is a one year European Master program (2nd Master year) in Materials Science, which aims to teach the application of “Large Scale Facilities” for the characterization and development of materials.

Modern life and globalisation imply new and additional exigencies for scientists and scientific engineers in the field of scientific and industrial competitiveness. This holds specifically for the development of new technologies and new materials which are important key-products and which contribute to the technological and scientific competitiveness of highly industrialized countries. The characterisation of these materials and also the optimising of technologies strongly demand sophisticated methods, some of them uniquely available at “Large Scale Facilities” using neutrons or synchrotron radiation.

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http://etudes.univ-rennes1.fr/mamaself/english

Bagi yang berminat, terutama yang memiliki latar belakang Material, Physics & Chemistry.. Pendaftaran untuk program akademik 2009/2010 telah dibuka dengan adanya kesempatan beasiswa dari konsorsium Erasmus Mundus. Deadline pendaftaran untuk Non-European Students adalah 16 February 2009.

Study of Calcium Phosphate Bioceramics Powders Syntheszied via Biomimetic Process

The need of better and faster healing method for patients has increase the demand of biomaterial in the biomedical field. One type of the biomaterial that interested scientist and clinician to be study and developed are synthetic “Calcium Phosphate” based bioceramics. As we know, calcium and phosphate are the main element of the human hard tissue mineral.

The most widely used calcium phosphate based bioceramics are hydroxyapatite [HA, Ca10(PO4)6(OH)2], β-tricalcium phosphate [β-TCP, Ca3(PO4)2] and biphasic mixtures of these two. In the present time, synthetic calcium phosphate bioceramics are widely used in the area of orthopedic, dentistry and drug delivery. Further research shown that calcium phosphate bioceramics are possible to be use as ocular implant and also genetic therapy for certain types of tumors/cancers.

Considering the numerous applications of calcium phosphate bioceramics in biomedical fields, various synthesis techniques have been developed. Calcium phosphate bioceramics have been synthesized using several methods including the wet chemical precipitation, sol-gel, solid state reaction and hydrothermal method. Their presences are in the form of powders, granules, foams, dense and porous blocks, coating, cement, also various composites.

Another possible technique to synthesize calcium phosphate bioceramics is the biomimetic (bio=life, mimetic=mimicking) method. In this method, calcium phosphate based bioceramics are precipitated in mimicking the condition of the physiological environment of the human body. The media use for the precipitation is simulated body fluid (SBF), an inorganic solution with ion concentrations and a pH value similar to human blood plasma. Some study of this method reported that this technique is successful in synthesizing calcium phosphate bioceramics powders which are similar with those in the human bone.

(Taken from introduction of Undergraduate Thesis of Weko Abhinimpuno)