Year: 2016

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...

Prof. Boccaccini was one of the invited speakers at the International Workshop and Summer School on Advanced Materials Challenges for Health & Alternative Energy Solutions (AMAES /NanoMed), which was held on 31 August- 3rd September 2016 in Cologne, Germany, under leadership of Prof. Sanjay Math...

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...