Month: April 2020

Our paper entitled: "Nanocomposite coatings obtained by electrophoretic co-deposition of poly(etheretherketone)/graphene oxide suspensions" (co-authors: Eduin I. Gonzalez-Castillo, Tommaso Costantini, Milo S. P. Shaffer, and Aldo R. Boccaccini) has been published in the J. Mater. Sci.  . The paper p...

Our Review paper on sol-gel processing of bioactive glass nanoparticles (authors: Kai Zheng, Aldo R. Boccaccini) has been listed as one of the 25 most cited papers  publshed since 2017 in Advances in Colloid and Interface Science. Given the increasing research in the field of silicate-based bioactiv...

The cover  of Issue 8 (Vol. 8, 2020) of the RSC journal "Biomaterials Science" features artwork representing our Open Access paper: "Cu, Zn doped borate bioactive glasses: Antibacterial efficacy and dose-dependent in vitromodulation of murine dendritic cells", just published in the journal . The art...

Our paper entitled "Multi-targeted B and Co co-doped 45S5 bioactive glasses with angiogenicpotential for bone regeneration" has been published in Mater. Sci. Eng. C . This paper presents results of our collaboration with researchers at the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunG...

In the fight against the corona virus, urgently needed breathing masks for doctors and staff of the University Hospital Erlangen are being produced in cooperation with the Chair of Polymer Materials (LSP, Prof. Dirk W. Schubert). The design of the masks made of spunbond fleece allows them to be adju...

The Scientific Board meeting of the Centre for Functional and Surface Functionalized Glass (FunGlass) was held on 2nd April 2020 by teleconference. FunGlass Centere is based at Alexander Dubček University in Trenčín, Slovakia. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani attended the meeting in...

Our new paper "Cu, Zn doped borate bioactive glasses: Antibacterial efficacy and dose-dependent in vitromodulation of murine dendritic cells", . This is the result of a research collaboration with Dr. Elisabeth Zinser, Department of Immune Modulation,  University Hospital Erlangen (Head: Prof. A. St...