Biological Evaluation of Materials The interaction of materials with their environment Biological Evaluation of Materials The interaction of materials with their environment Bogdan Walkowiak Department of Biophysics, Lodz University of Technology, Stefanowskiego st. 1/15, 90-537 Lodz, Poland, and Bionanopark Laboratories, Bionanopark Ltd, Dubois st. 114/116, 93-465 Lodz, Poland Magdalena Walkowiak-Przybyło Aflofarm Farmacja Polska Sp. z o.o. Partyzancka 133/15, 95-200 Pabianice, Poland and Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, Stefanowskiego st. 1/15, 90-537 Lodz, Poland Piotr Komorowski Bionanopark Laboratories, Bionanopark Ltd, Dubois st. 114/116, 93-465 Lodz, Poland and Department of Biophysics Lodz University of Technology Stefanowskiego st. 1/15 90-537 Lodz, Poland IOP Publishing, Bristol, UK ªIOPPublishingLtd2022 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedinaretrievalsystem ortransmittedinanyformorbyanymeans,electronic,mechanical,photocopying,recording orotherwise,withoutthepriorpermissionofthepublisher,orasexpresslypermittedbylawor undertermsagreedwiththeappropriaterightsorganization.Multiplecopyingispermittedin accordancewiththetermsoflicencesissuedbytheCopyrightLicensingAgency,theCopyright ClearanceCentreandotherreproductionrightsorganizations. PermissiontomakeuseofIOPPublishingcontentotherthanassetoutabovemaybesought [email protected]. 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PublishedbyIOPPublishing,whollyownedbyTheInstituteofPhysics,London IOPPublishing,TempleCircus,TempleWay,Bristol,BS16HG,UK USOffice:IOPPublishing,Inc.,190NorthIndependenceMallWest,Suite601,Philadelphia, PA19106,USA iv Contents Preface vii Author biographies viii Symbols x 1 Introduction 1-1 1.1 What is this book about? 1-1 1.2 The evolution of the Universe 1-1 1.3 The evolution of human thought 1-4 1.4 The birth of modern physics 1-8 1.5 Life sciences and their contribution to understanding the world 1-13 References 1-16 2 Materials science and life sciences 2-1 2.1 The impact of the production and use of material technology products 2-1 2.2 The industrial revolution and its impact on the environment 2-2 2.3 Environmental monitoring 2-4 2.4 The potential of micro-organisms to decompose waste 2-7 2.5 Micro-organisms in technological processes 2-8 2.6 Problems with nanomaterials 2-9 2.7 Threats from nanotechnology products 2-14 References 2-17 3 Materiomics 3-1 3.1 The importance of microscopic techniques for the development 3-1 of science 3.2 Other research techniques allowing the development of science 3-5 3.3 Definition of materiomics 3-8 3.4 Current applications of materiomics 3-10 References 3-13 4 Biological recognition of materials 4-1 4.1 Life and matter 4-1 4.2 The principle of correspondence in science 4-4 4.3 Artificial cell 4-5 v BiologicalEvaluationofMaterials 4.4 Molecular interactions and recognition 4-7 4.5 Signal transduction and particles uptake 4-9 4.6 Molecular biology methods 4-11 4.7 Biological recognition of stress 4-14 References 4-15 5 Quantum basis of materials recognition by cells 5-1 5.1 A new strategy for the identification and grouping of nanomaterials 5-1 5.2 Postulates 5-2 5.3 Supporting arguments 5-3 5.4 The quantum effects of nanomaterials 5-3 5.5 More on biological material recognition 5-9 5.6 Some practical considerations 5-12 References 5-15 6 Considerations of substrate bonding and catalysis models 6-1 6.1 The essence of the chemical reaction 6-1 6.2 Reaction kinetics 6-2 6.3 Kinetic theory of collisions 6-4 6.4 Catalysis and tunneling 6-4 6.5 Chemical bonds 6-7 6.6 Hydrogen bonds and electrostatic interactions 6-10 6.7 Molecular tunneling and molecular interactions 6-12 6.8 Interactions with nanomaterials 6-13 References 6-14 7 Summary 7-1 vi Preface At first glance, materials science and the life sciences are so far removed from each otherthatitisdifficulttofindanyconnectionbetweenthem,butsucharelationship exists and is extremely important for further development. New materials with intentionalproperties,belongingtothegroupofbiomaterials,allowforapplications and medical technologies which have not been achieved until recently. However, with the current state of knowledge and technology, the dreams of creating one ‘super biomaterial’ suitable for all biomedical applications should be shelved. Even nature has not coped with such a challenge and for the performance of various functions ithasdevelopeddifferenttissueswithdifferentmechanicalpropertiesand differentprofilesofbiologicalactivity,althoughtheformationandfunctioningofall these tissues is based on one polymer material, which is the genetic material contained in the cell. This material is identical in every cell of a given organism, regardless of the function of the cell in the tissue, and the tissue in the body. In this sense, deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) can be described as a ‘super biomaterial’. Of course, in the future it may turn out that materials science is able to produce materialswithunlimitedabilitytoadapttoenvironmentalconditions andthusable to replace different types of tissues in terms of both strength and function. To achieve this aim, close co-operation between the representatives of both materials science and the life sciences is necessary. Traditionally, the representatives of materialsscienceusuallyusephysicochemicalmethodsofproducingandresearching newmaterials,includingnanomaterials,usuallynotfeelingeventhesmallestneedto use biological methods in their research. The only exception is biomaterials engineering, where the need for biological assessment of biomaterials is obvious. It seems, however, that the era of biology in materials science has already arrived and the joint use of physicochemical and biological methods is key to progress and solving the most complicated problems in materials science. In this way, at the beginning of the twenty-first century, the field of materiomics, combining materials science with the life sciences, has appeared and emphasized the need for the biological assessment of materials. vii Author biographies Bogdan Walkowiak BogdanWalkowiak,agraduateofnuclearphysicsattheUniversity of Lodz, Poland (1978), obtained his PhD in natural sciences from theMedicalAcademyinLodz,Poland(1985).In1989–90hewasa postdoctoralfellowattheStateUniversityofNewYork,Brooklyn, NY, USA. He was then employed at the Medical University of Lodz, Poland, at the same time receiving training at the companies PerkinElmer,PharmaciaBiotech,AmershamBiosciences,BiaCore AB, AlphaMOS, and General Electric Life Sciences. In the years 1993–2012 he was a scientific advisor in the Warsaw office of GE Healthcare (formerly Amersham Bioscience, Pharmacia, and LKB). In 1994 he obtained his habilitationinmedicalbiology,andin2003thetitleofProfessorofMedicalSciences inthefieldofmedicalbiology.In2000hefoundedtheDepartmentofBiophysicsat the Lodz University of Technology which he managed until the end of 2021, coordinated the Center for Advanced Technologies BioTechMed, and participated in the implementation of the BioNanoPark project at the Technopark in Lodz, Poland,wherehewasemployedasthescientificleaderofBionanoparkLaboratories (2012–21). From 2012–20 he represented Poland in the Nanomaterials Expert Group of the European Chemicals Agency, Helsinki, Finland. Currently, he is a Professor at the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering of the Lodz University of Technology. Magdalena Walkowiak-Przybyło Magdalena Walkowiak-Przybyło, a graduate of Pharmacy at the Medical University of Lodz, Poland (2009), obtained her PhD in materials science at the Lodz University of Technology, Poland (2014). During her PhD studies (2009–14) she was granted several scholarships (e.g. ‘Scholarships to support innovative research of PhD students’ (2009), ‘Research scholarships for the best PhD studentsinthefieldofnewtechnologies’(2012–13)).From2019to 2021sheworkedasaScientificandTechnicalSpecialistinthefield of materiomics at the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Lodz University of Technology, and in the years 2020–21 she was employed as an AssistantProfessoratthesameinstitute.Duringtheyears2009–20,inparallelwith her scientific path, she continued working as a pharmacist in a community pharmacy. Currently she works for a pharmaceutical company, involved in medicinal product development in foreign markets with a great emphasis on regulatory activities. viii BiologicalEvaluationofMaterials Piotr Komorowski Piotr Komorowski graduated from the Lodz University of Technology, Poland, in 2003 with a Master’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering, specialty—Medical Apparatus and Equipment. He started his scientific career at the Department of Biophysics of the Institute of Materials Science and Engineering atthe LodzUniversity ofTechnology. After receiv- ing his PhD in materials science (2010), he took the position of Head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Nanostructural Biophysics and the Laboratory of Structural Research of Nanomaterials in BioNanoPark Ltd, Lodz, Poland. Dr Komorowski has completed several training courses in molecular biology, proteomics, and biophysics, and is a specialist in the field of biological evaluation of nanomaterials and other products of innovative technologies.Hasextensiveexperience inimplementingthe currenttechniques used incellularandmolecularbiology,includingcellviability,cytotoxicityandgenotox- icity, as well as transcriptomics and proteomics. ix