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Welcome to the website of the Institute of Biomaterials, seventh Institute of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg.
The Institute of Biomaterials at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg started teaching and research activities on 1st October 2009 with the appointment of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Dr. h.c. Aldo R. Boccaccini (formerly at Imperial College London, UK), as Professor and Head of the Institute of Biomaterials.
Besuchen Sie auch die deutsche Webseite des Lehrstuhls Biomaterialien.
Several papers co-authored by members of our Institute have been included in the list of Top Viewed Articles of journals published by the publisher Wiley.
These include:
"Reinforcing Tissue-Engineered Cartilage: Nanofibrillated Cellulose Enhances Mechanical Properties of Alginate Dialdehyde–Gela...
Our recent paper in Advanced Materials Interfaces titled "3D Printing of Photocrosslinked Alginate Dialdehyde-Gelatin Hydrogels Reinforced with Cobalt-Containing Mesoporous Bioactive Glass Nanoparticles for Developing Skin Wound Dressings", led by Dr. Ehsan Zeimaran, co-authored by Dr. Sara Pourshah...
On 14th April 2025, Prof. Boccaccini visited DTU Health Tech (Department of Health Technology, Technical University of Denmark) in Lyngby (near Copenhagen), Denmark, invited by Prof. Alireza Dolatshahi-Pirouz and Dr. Tatiane Eufrásio-da-Silva. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture "Bioactive glasse...
