Month: August 2016

On 30th August 2016 Preethi Balasubramanian successfully defended her doctoral thesis in the field of bioactive glass scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, which was carried out under the supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition to Prof. Boccaccini, Prof. Jerome Che...

The progress meeting of the DFG funded collaborative project "Bioadaptive Coatings on Mg Alloys" was held on 29th August 2016 at the Institute of Biomaterials, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. This project is a collaborative effort of the Institute of Surface Sci...

The 67th Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry (ISE) was held on 21 - 26 August 2016 in The Hague, the Netherlands. Prof. Boccaccini chaired the organisation of symposium 14 (S.14): "Combined Electro and Electrophoretic Deposition for Advanced Materials Synthesis" in collab...

Our Department of Materials Science and Engineering is listed as the number 1 department in Germany in the field of materials science and engineering, according to the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU), also known as Shanghai Ranking. In the international ranking, our Department appears ...

Prof. Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the 6th Int. Congress on Ceramics (ICC-6) held on August 21-25, 2016 in Dresden, Germany. He presented the lecture "Novel applications of bioactive glasses in tissue engineering: vascularisation and soft tissue repair" in the Symposium "Bioceramics...

On 19th August, we received the visit of Prof. Juan Munoz Saldana (Head of CENAPROT National Laboratory) and Ms. Jennifer Hermann (international Master student), of Centro Nacional de Proyección Térmica (CENAPROT), Querétaro Unit of Cinvestav (both pictured with Prof. Boccaccini). We are planing a n...

In the framework of the academic exchange program "Fabrication and osteogenesis of hierarchical scaffold of mesoporous Mg-doped bioactive glass/PBS composites" with the Engineering Research Center for Biomedical Materials of Ministry of Education in East China University of Science and Technology, S...

Our paper entitled: "Bioplotting of a bioactive alginate dialdehyde-gelatin composite hydrogel containing bioactive glass nanoparticles", a study carried out in collaboration with the group of Prof. Joao Mano, Department of Chemistry, University of Aveiro, Portugal, has been recently published in th...

On 11th August 2016 we received the visit of Prof. Bernhard Hensel (Max Schaldach Endowed Professorship for Biomedical Technology), Department of Physics, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg) and members of his team, Dr. Alexander Rzany, Ms Tina Pieger (PhD student) and Mr Tobias Igelspacher (PhD student). ...