Year: 2020

We are happy to report that Dr. Jingjing Wu, former visiting PhD student in our Institute (2018), was one of the recipients of the prestigious 2019 Acta Student Award.  The team of judges consisting of editors of the journals Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Acta Biomaterialia and Materialia eva...

During the first half of 2020 our research activities in collaboration with colleagues from 20 countries have resulted in 33 publications (listed below). We are very proud to be collaborating with such a high number of distinguished colleagues and project partners from around the world. We look forw...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the (remote) meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) <https://www.fems.org/fems-executive-committee> of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) <https://www.fems.org/>,  chaired by FEMS president Prof. Eric Le Bourhis, which took place on 1...

A new publication (Open Access) entitled "3D printed oxidized alginate-gelatin bioink provides guidance for C2C12 muscle precursor cell orientation and differentiation via shear stress during bioprinting" has been accepted in the journal  "Biofabrication". This paper features the collaboration of su...

Our new paper entitled  "3D printing and characterization of human nasoseptal chondrocytes laden dual crosslinked oxidized alginate-gelatin hydrogels for cartilage repair approaches" has been published in the journal Materials Science and Engineering C. This is the result of a collaboration led by ...

On 2nd July 2020, Prof. Stephan Barcikowski, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, presented the (remote) lecture "Facile nanoparticle embedding in the feedstock of biomaterials Additive Manufacturing" in the framework of our seminar series "Advances in Biomaterials". We discussed also...

In this study , we showed the fabrication of composite polylactic acid-bioactive glass (PLA-BG) (3D printing) filaments to 3D print open porous, bioactive and osteoinductive scaffolds for bone and osteochondral tissue engineering via fused deposition modeling (FDM). This research was conducted in th...

Our collaborative paper with the group of Prof.  J. Muñoz-Saldaña, at Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-Querétaro), Mexico, has been published in Materials Letters. This paper entitled "In-vitro bioactivity and cytotoxicity of polarized (Bi0.5N...

The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) tops the list of German universities in the category "Citations per Faculty", according the the latest edition of the prestigious "QS World University Rankings(R)". In this important category that indicates the impact of the research being carried out in th...

On Monday 22nd June, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini delivered an invited lecture in the framework of the BioEngineering and Therapeutic Solutions (BEaTS) Seminar series, Ottawa Heart Institute, University of Ottawa, Canada. The seminar was hosted by Prof. Emilio I. Alarcon, Principal Investigator and Labo...