2017

Invited by the students' associations of National Technology University (UTN) FR San Rafael, and Faculty of Applied Sciences in Industry (FCAI) at National University of Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Rafael, Argentina, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented the lecture: "New Bioactive Materials for Medical Applica...

Prof. Boccaccini visited the Faculty of Applied Sciences in Industry (FCAI) at National University of Cuyo (UNCUYO), San Rafael, Argentina, where he met Ms Silvia Clavijo (pictured with Prof. Boccaccini), PhD student working in the field of electrophoretic deposition of composite coatings for orthop...

During his visit to Argentina, Prof. Boccaccini met Prof. Viviana Mourino, Department of Pharmaceutical Technology University of Buenos Aires, a research collaborator of our Institute for many years. Prof. Boccaccini and Prof. Mourino discussed current and future research collaborations in the field...

Several students and young researchers have chosen our Institute to carry out research during the next months. We welcome Ms Aleksandra Wajda, visiting PhD student from AGH Krakow, Poland, Ms Serena Miglietta, Polytechnic of Turin, Italy, visiting Master student, Mr Hassan Warraich, Polytechnic of T...

  To mark the one year anniversary of moving to our new building (Building II) in Erlangen-West, a seminar and get-together of the whole Institute took place on 3rd April. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Head of the Institute of Biomaterials) highlighted the excellent environment and modern experi...

On 3rd April 2017 we received the visit of Dr. Gary Gladysz, Empyreus Solutions, LLC, USA. Prof. Boccaccini has collaborated with Dr. Gladysz since 2004 in the organization of the international conferences on "Syntactic and Composite Foams", a series of conferences supported by Engineering Conferenc...

The 5th International Conference on Syntactic and Composite Foams was held in Siracusa, Italy, on March 26-31, 2017. Prof. Boccaccini acted as Co-Chair of the conference, which was sponsored by Engineering Conferences International (ECI). Dr. Liliana Liverani and Mr Lukas Gritsch (PhD student) atten...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was co-organizer of the symposium "Bioceramics and Biocomposites" at the 92th Annual Meeting of the German Ceramic Society (DKG) held in Berlin, Germany, on 19-22 March 2017, together with Dr. Franziska Schmidt (Department of Ceramic Materials, TU Berlin). Professor Boccac...

Dr. Tan Wai Kian, of the Centre for International Education, Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT), Japan, visited out Institute in the framework of our research collaboration with TUT, in the project "Development of nano-scale artificial magnetic lattice (AML) and application for controlling lig...