Year: 2020

On 19th June, Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture "Bioactive materials  in tissue engineering: progress and challenges" in the framework of the "Distinguished Lecture Series" of the Faculty of Engineering,  Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The lecture, delivered remotely, addressed one of the Unite...

Three of our papers have been named Top Downloaded Papers 2018-2019 in the journals Adv. Eng. Mater. , J. Biomed. Mater. Res. and Macromol. Bioscience . The list includes papers published in the respective journals between January 2018 and December 2019. We thank all co-authors for their great cont...

Our new paper entitled "Ionically and Enzymatically Dual Cross-Linked Oxidized Alginate Gelatin Hydrogels with Tunable Stiffness and Degradation Behavior for Tissue Engineering", has just been published in ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. This paper results from our research activities in the framework of th...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the Board meeting of the German Materials Society (DGM), held remotely on 10th June 2020. Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of DGM to the Executive Committee of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). Prof. Boccaccini currently chairs the Board of the DG...

A new publication featuring the collaboration of subprojects A01, A02, A07, B06, B08 if the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” has been accepted for publication (Open Access) in the journal Biofabrication. The study ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini celebrates 10 years as Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of Materials Letters. The journal is one of the "classical" journals in the field of materials science and engineering. It was founded in 1982 and has seen a continuous increase of the impact factor (IF) over the years, the curren...

Dr. Elisa Mele, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Materials, Loughborough University, UK, was an invited speaker in our (remote) seminar series "Advances in Biomaterials", held on 28th May 2020. Dr. Mele presented the lecture: "Porous materials for biomedical applications: from electrospinning to...

On 25th May 2020 Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Qaisar Nawaz (PhD student) attended the remote progress meeting of the DFG funded project on advanced microstructural characterisation of bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics. In this project, researchers from Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of M...

Waldemar will help in our increasing outreach and teaching activities in the field of biomedical materials and applications of materials in medicine as part of a new set of demonstration materials and models. We participate in several initiatives of the FAU Department of Materials Science and Engin...

Our paper entitled "Effects of Medium pH and Preconditioning Treatment on Protein Adsorption on 45S5 Bioactive Glass Surfaces" has been published (Open Access) in Adv. Mater. Interf. . This paper presents results of a successful collaboration with different research groups at the FAU Faculty of Engi...