2012

On 13th September, Ms Alexandra Grigore (student of the Elite Masters Course: Advanced Materials and Processes) presented successfully the results of her Master thesis project entitled "Development and characterization of soft matrices for cell encapsulation". This research project was carried out ...

The Diploma-thesis of Mr S. Kreppel on "Influence of bioactive nanoparticles on the mechanical properties of dental adhesives" co-supervised by Dr. U. Lohbauer (Dental School), Dr. H. Hornberger and Prof. A. R. Boccaccini (pictured with Mr Kreppel and Dr Lohbauer) has been submitted. This is the fir...

On August 23-26, 2012, Prof. A. R. Boccaccini and Dr. J. A. Roether (Institute of Polymer Materials, FAU) visited the Catholic University of Salta (UCASAL) in Argentina. They were invited speakers at the Biomaterials Workshop organised by Dr. A. Gorustovich, a CONICET researcher at UCASAL (in the pi...

On August 21st, 2012, Prof. A. R. Boccaccini visited the Faculty of Industrial Applied Sciences (FCAI), University of Cuyo, in San Rafael, Argentina. Prof. Boccaccini is international advisor of the research group "Materials" at FCAI, specifically in projects dealing with the electrophoretic deposi...

On July 30th - August 3rd, 2012, Prof. A. R. Boccaccini (WW7) and Dr J. A. Roether (WW5, Institute of Polymer Technology, FAU) visited the Department of Pharmaceutical Technology of the Faculty of Pharmacy and Biochemistry, University of Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina, in the framework of the project...

On 26th July we received the visit of Prof. Diana Golodnitsky, professor at the School of Chemistry and Wolfson Applied Materials Research Centre, Tel Aviv University (Israel). Prof Golodnitsky discussed with Prof. Boccaccini topics for research collaboration between TAU and FAU in the field of elec...

Mr. Mark Hull, publishing manager at Maney Publishing (UK) visited our Institute on 18th July. He discussed with Prof. Boccaccini and with other members of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering about publications opportunities in several materials science journals published by Maney. P...