Month: September 2016

Prof. Boccaccini was a member of the MSE Experts Committee of the MSE 2016 congress held in Darmstadt, Germany, on 27-29 September 2016, organised by the German Materials Society (DGM). Together with Prof. K. Jandt (University of Jena), Prof. Boccaccini was responsible for the organization of Topic ...

The 7th International Workshop on Advanced Ceramics (IWAC-07) was held in Limoges, France on 26-28 September 2016, organized by "Laboratory of Science of Ceramic Processing and Surface Treatments” (SPCTS) and held under the auspices of the French Group of Ceramics. Professor Boccaccini presented the...

On 21-23 September, Prof. Boccaccini visited the Department of Materials at Imperial College London (UK). Prof. Boccaccini is visiting professor at Imperial College London (LINK: http://www.imperial.ac.uk/people/a.boccaccini ) and we currently have several collaborations with colleagues in the Depar...

Prof. Boccaccini was a plenary speaker at the 14th Int. Symposium on Functionally Graded Materials (ISFGMs) held in Bayreuth, Germany, on Sept. 18-21, 2016, chaired by Prof. Monika Willert-Porada (Univ. of Bayreuth). The title of his presentation was: Functionally Graded Materials in Biomedical Appl...

On 15th September, we received the visit of Dr. Irma de Melo-Reiners and Dipl.-Pol. Luise Freitag representatives of BAYLAT (Bavarian University Centre for LatinAmerica) (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini). The objectives of BAYLAT are directly related to the university internationalitation strategy of...

Yuyun Yang, who is carrying out her PhD thesis at the Institute of Biomaterials, supervised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and co-supervised by Prof. Sanna Virtannen (Institute of Surface Science and Corrosion), has won the 2015 Frans Habraken Best Paper Award of the journal Applied Surface Science. Th...

In the week of 11-18 September 2016 we received the visit of Dr. Josefina Ballarre, researcher and professor at National Institute of Materials Technology (INTEMA), University of Mar del Plata, Argentina, in the framework of the I.DEAR (Ingenieure Deutschland-Argentinien), program funded by the Germ...

Our paper entitled: "Electrophoretic deposition of nanostructured TiO2/alginate and TiO2-bioactive glass/alginate composite coatings on stainless steel" , based on the research results of the doctoral thesis of Dr. Luis Cordero-Arias, in collaboration with the group of Dr E. Sanchez, Institute of Ce...

Prof. Boccaccini was a member of the International Advisory Board of the SGT Centenary Conference & ESG2016, held in Sheffield, UK, on 4th - 8th September 2016. He co-organised, with Prof. E. Zanotto (CeRTEV), Univ. of San Carlos, Brazil), the symposium "Glasses in Healthcare - Hench Memorial Sy...