Year: 2024

The first Retreat of the Research Unit “Bioinspired Anti-Fatigue” (FOR 5657, BIOAntiFatigue), funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG), took place on 4-6 September 2024 in Kloster Lehnin, Brandenburg, organised by Prof. Claudia Fleck, from the Institute for Materials Science, TU Berlin. At the...

On 3-4 September 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the Workshop NATUGEL 2024 - Natural Hydrogels for Applications in Tissue Engineering at the Campus Mechanical Engineering Garbsen, Leibniz University Hannover (LUH), organised by Professor Birgit Glasmacher and Sara Leal Marin, M.Sc., Institut...

In the week 2-6 September 2024, our Institute was part of the BEST (Board of European Students of Technology)  course in Erlangen on "Additive Manufacturing", in which engineering students from several EU countries participated. Prof. Boccaccini attended the Opening Ceremony of the course and delive...

Dr. Behnam Akhavan, Head of the Plasma Bio-Engineering Group Laboratory at University of Newcastle, Australia, visited the FAU Institute of Biomaterials on 26th August 2024. Dr. Akhavan presented the invited lecture "Plasma Bio-Engineering: Advancing Biomimetic Devices, Bio-fabrication, and Nanomedi...

The 6th French-Brazilian Meeting on Polymers (FBPOL) took place on April 21-26 in Florianópolis, Brazil. The event, renowned for its success in previous editions, continued to serve as a premier platform for discussing the latest advances in polymeric systems. This year, notable participants include...

Marking his recent invited plenary lecture at Faculty of Applied Sciences in Industry (FCAI) at National University of Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Rafael, Argentina, Prof. Boccaccini was interviewed (in Spanish) by the local media in San Rafael, his hometown. He gave an interview to the FM Vos radio sender a...

On 14th August 2024, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented an invited plenary talk at Faculty of Applied Sciences in Industry (FCAI) at National University of Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Rafael, Argentina. Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture: “Bioactive materials and 3D biopriting: Engineering solutions ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini has been appointed (from 1st June 2024) Editor of the high impact Elsevier journal "Progress in Materials Science" (IF =  33.6, CiteScore = 59.6). He will collaborate with a group of 9 Editors and Editor-in-Chief Prof. Eduard Arzt in the editorial team of the journal. Progre...

Congratulations to Lulseged for receiving the Best Dissertation in polymer science and engineering Award from the Department of Chemical and Food Engineering at Bahir Dar University, Ethiopia. Lulseged carried his doctoral thesis titled “False Banana Fiber-Reinforced Alkali Activated Low-Calcium...

Prof. Boccaccini has been appointed member of the Advisory Board of BAYLAT, the Bavarian University Center for Latin America (“Centro Universitario de Baviera para América Latina”)  for a second period (2024-2027) after having served already for three years. Prof. Boccaccini said: “I am happy to hav...