Year: 2020

On 4th March 2020 we received the visit of Prof. Carsten Werner , Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research, and Head of the Institute Biofunctional Polymer Materials within the Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Dresden, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Prof. Werner presented the invited talk "Ce...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the XRM (X-ray microscopy)-Workshop held on 3rd March 2020 at Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems (Fraunhofer IMWS)  in Halle, Germany. In this symposium, chaired by Prof. Thomas Höche, Head of Business Unit Optical Materials and Technol...

Prof. Boccaccini visited Imperial College London on 26-27 February 2020. Prof. Boccaccini is a visiting professor in the Department of Materials at Imperial College since 2009, when he moved to Germany to take the position of Head of the Institute of Biomaterials at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg....

Our paper "Bioactive Glass (BG) ICIE16 Shows Promising Osteogenic Properties Compared to Crystallized 45S5-BG",  in collaboration with the group of Dr. Fabian Westhauser (Heidelberg University Hospital) and Prof. Leena Hupa (Åbo Akademi University, Turku, Finland) has been published (Open Access) In...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the General Assembly Meeting of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials (KMM-VIN ),  held on 25th February 2020 in Brussels. Prof. Boccaccini is the coordinator of the Working Group Biomaterials (together with Prof. C. Hellmich, T...

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...