Month: February 2020

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the meeting of the Executive Committee (EC)of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), which took place in the premises of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3) in London, UK, on 26th February. FEMS is a not-for profit association of E...

On 19th February 2020 we received the visit of Dr. Romain Lucas, from the Institute of Research for Ceramics (IRCER) at University of Limoges, France. There are several initiatives for collaboration between IRCER and the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engineering, including the Institute of...

On 11-14 February 2020 we received the visit of Dr. George Kyzas, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry at the International Hellenic University (IHU), Kavala Greece, in the framework of an Erasmus lecturership. Dr. Kyzas presented the invited talk: "Materials for environmental applicat...

On 14th February we received the visit of Dr. Priscila Schilrreff, Alexander von Humboldt-Foundation Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Pharmacy. Dr. Schilrreff presented the invited talk: "Smart nanocarriers for topical and oral drug delivery" in the framewok of ...

Our paper entitled: "Antioxidant mesoporous Ce-doped bioactive glass nanoparticles with anti-inflammatory and pro-osteogenic activities" has been just published in Materials Today Bio Zheng, K., et al., Mater. Today Bio 5 (2020) 100041. The study reported in this paper was carried out with collabora...

On 11th Feb. 2020 we received the visit of Dr. Ajita Jindal, PhD graduate from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. Dr. Jindal presented the invited lecture: "Development of mesoporous silica-based materials  for biomedical applications" in the framework of the Advanced Biomaterials Semina...

On 11th Feb. 2020 we received the visit of Prof. Humberto Palza,, Department of Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology and Materials, Faculty of Physical and Mathematical Sciences,  University of Chile, Santiago, Chile. Prof. Palza presented the invited seminar "3D printing of bioactive scaffolds based...

On 6th February we received the visit of Dr. Liliang Ouyang , post-doctoral research associate in the Stevens Group, Department of Materials,  Imperial College London. Previously, Dr. Liliang Ouyang presented the _invited lecture: "Extrusion-based Bioprinting of Photo-crosslinkable Bioinks“ in the f...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, Dr. Julia Will and Dr. Liliana Liverani attended the Poster presentations evening of Master students of the Elite Master’s Programme “Advanced Materials and Processes“ (MAP), which took place on 5th February at Fraunhofer-Institut IISB, Erlangen. It was attended by numerous...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani attended the kick-off meeting of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE) at Riga Technical University (RTU), Latvia. Prof. Boccaccini attended also the first meeting of the steering committe of BBCE. The project´s main objective is to est...