Month: May 2018

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini will serve as member of the Scientific Committee of the next European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes, EUROMAT 2019 to be held in Stockholm, Sweden, on September 1-5, 2019. Prof. Boccaccini, together with Prof. Håkan Engqvist, Applied Materials Sc...

The progress meeting of the EU (Horizon 2020) project "Additive Manufacturing Initiative for Transnational Innovation in Europe" (AMITIE) (Marie Skłodowska Curie Grant Agreement 734342), was held in Berlin, Germany on 14-15 May 2018. Prof. Boccaccini attended the meeting representing the Institute o...

Prof. Ratana Rujiravanit, The Petroleum and Petrochemical College, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand, was a guest at the Institute of Biomaterials on 30th April - 5th May 2018. On 4th May, she presented the seminar "Transformation of biopolymers derived from agricultural wastes to value-added produ...

The kick-off meeting of project B03 (Simultaneous printing of biofabricated constructs and tailored bioreactors) within the Collaborative Research Centre TRR 225 "From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models" took place on 17th April 2018 at the Institute of Biomaterials,...

On 26th April 2018 Prof. Boccaccini attended the German Materials Society (DGM) Board meeting, held in Berlin. He presented the latest developments of FEMS (Federation of European Materials Societies). Prof. Boccaccini is a member of the Executive Committee of FEMS, where he represents the DGM. Prof...

The volume "Nanostructured Biomaterials for Cranio-Maxillofacial and Oral Applications, 1st Edition" has been published by Elsevier. Editors are: Dr. Júlio Souza (Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), Brazil, and University of Minho, Portugal), Prof. Dachamir Hotza (Federal University of Sant...

Many thanks to Lena Vogt, Thomas Distler, Florian Ruther and Marcela Arango, PhD students in the Institute of Biomaterials, for their great efforts representing our Institute at the Erlangen Knowledge market days ("Markttage des Wissens") on 5th May 2018, an activity organized as part of the celebra...

The Special Issue "Bioactive Glasses 2017" has been published in the open access journal Materials. The Special Issue was co-edited by Dr. Francesco Baino and Prof. Enrica Verné (Polytechnic of Turin, Italy) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and contains 12 papers from renowned authors in the field...