Month: October 2020

On 27th October, Prof.  Boccaccini presented the invited lecture "Bioactive Glass Innovations: From Bone Regeneration to Wound Healing" in the framework of the MSE seminar at the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, University of Florida, USA, hos...

The online meeting of the Working Group "Environment and Health" (FG6  "Umwelt und Gesundheit")  of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) took place on 22nd October 2020, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Working group leader). The activities of the Working Group for 2021 were discussed, which include ...

Three of our recent review papers published in Acta Biomaterialia  are listed as Most Downloaded Acta Biomaterialia Articles in the last 90 days. The papers review very important and novel topics that attract the attention of our biomaterials colleagues. Congratulations to Susanne Heid, Thomas Dist...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr. Liliana Liverani attended the meeting of the partners of the Baltic Biomaterials Centre of Excellence (BBCE), which was held online, hosted by project coordinator Prof. Janis Locs (Riga Technical University) on 16th October 2020. The project´s main objective is to es...

The review paper "Electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotubes: recent progress and remaining challenges" ,  has been published in Open Access mode in International Materials Reviews. This is a very comprehensive review of the literature in the field of electrophoretic deposition (EPD) of carbon n...

The kick-off meeting of our new DFG funded project "Additive Manufacturing of Bone Substitutes from Bioactive Glasses" took place online on 13th October 2020. This project is a joint research effort with the group of Dr. Ralf Mueller, Head of Division 5.6 "Glass", at the Federal Institute for Materi...

On 13th October 2020 Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Qaisar Nawaz (PhD student) attended the progress meeting of the _DFG_ (LINK: _https://www.dfg.de/_ ) funded project on advanced microstructural characterisation of bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics, which was held remotely. In this project, we col...

The meeting of the Executive Board of the DGM Regionalforum Erlangen was held remotely on 12th October 2020, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (chair of the board). The Board members present were: Prof. Carolin Koerner (FAU), Dr. Tobias Fey (FAU), Prof. Uwe Glatzel (Univ. of Bayreuth), Dr. Thomas G...

Susanne Heid, Jonas Hazur, Emine Karakaya (PhD students), Dr. Rainer Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the retreat of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models”, held online on 6-9 October 2020. TRR225 has recei...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was a keynote speaker at the 6th Cellular Materials conference (CellMAT 2020) held remotely on 07-09 September 2020, a conference organized by the German Materials Society, DGM. Prof. Boccaccini presented the talk "Porous Bioceramics and Bioglasses (for Tissue Engineering an...