2010

This special issue was edited by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The 15 papers published in this issue were selected from the high quality contributions presented at the Euromat 2009 Conference, held in Glasgow, UK, in September 2009. The papers cover a great variety of biomaterial systems, i.e. biopolyme...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini is organising the symposium "Biomaterial Applications" in the framework of the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE 2010) Conference, organised by the German Materials Society (DGM) in Darmstadt, Germany, on 24-26 August 2010. MORE INFORMATION HERE: http://www.dgm.de/dg...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini member of the organising committee of the 18. Symposium "Verbundwerkstoffe und Werkstoffverbunde", Chemnitz, Germany, 30th March - 1st April, 2011. The call for abstracts is now open: http://www.dgm.de/dgm/verbund/index.php?lg=de

Prof. Boccaccini has been reelected as member of the Peer Review College of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) of the UK. He has served as member of the College since 2003.

The Workshop "Nanoparticles, Environment and Health" was held at Imperial College London on 18th June 2010. This workshop was organised by the NaNoRISK (Nanotoxicology Research in South Kensington) Initiative with participation of Prof. Boccaccini as a member of the Management Committee of NaNoRISK....

Our Institute has been approved as one of the 35 partners of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials AISBL (KMM-VIN). KMM-VIN was founded under the auspices of the European Commission as a single legal entity with a supranational character to offer integrated bas...

Our Institute is one of the international institutions collaborating with the UK Centre for Advanced Structural Ceramics (CASC), based at Imperial College London and directed by Prof. W. E. Lee.More information: http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/structuralceramics The Centre is organising the First CASC S...