Month: March 2011

Congratulations to Deborah Desimone e Silva who recently passed her PhD oral examination at Imperial College London. The titel of her PhD thesis is: "Fabrication and Characterisation of oxide fibre-reinforced glass matrix composites for optomechanical applications". She was supervised by Prof. Dr. ...

Prof. Himanshu Jain, T.L. Diamond Distinguished Chair in Engineering and Applied Science and Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at Lehigh University, USA visited our Institute on Friday, 18th March. Prof. Jain is also Director of the NSF's International Materials Institute for New Functi...

In the framework of the international collaboration between the Nagoya Institute of Technology (NITECH) and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, we received the visit of a large delegation of academics and students from NITECH on 10th - 11th March. Their visit was part of the exchange and research ...

In the framework of the Quebec-Bavaria Collaboration on "Nanocomposite biomaterials for bone regeneration" Prof. S. Nazhat and PhD students Benedetto Marelli and Chiara Ghezzi from the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University in Montreal (Canada), visited our Institute on 8t...

Prof. Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the International Workshop Processing of Nanostructures Ceramics and Nanocomposites on 3rd - 5th March, held at Brno University of Technology, Brcno (Czech Rebublic). He delivered a talk on: "Electrophoretic Deposition: from traditional ceramics to...