The special issue "Manufacturing meets Biofabrication", co-edited by Prof. Dietmar W. Hutmacher, Queensland University of Technology, Australia and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, has been published in the journal Bionanomaterials. The goal of the special issue is to present current research and developme...
Mr Louis-Philippe Lefebvre, Team Leader at National Research Council Canada, Boucherville (Canada), visited our Institute on 20th April 2015. Mr Lefebvre and co-workers have developed an alternative interesting foaming technique to fabricate 45S5 bioactive glass scaffolds which provides scaffolds o...
Prof. Boccaccini is a member of the organizing committee of the Prof. Boccaccini is the co-organiser of Symposium 33: "Glasses and Ceramics for Nuclear and Hazardous Waste Treatment" together with Prof. Russell Hand, University of Sheffield, UK, at the 11th International Conference of Pacific Rim Ce...
In the framework of the project of Ms Y. Schroeder, Biomedical Engineering, Ansbach University of Applied Sciences co-supervised at our Institute by Dr. R. Detsch and Prof. Boccaccini, in the field of additive manufacturing of biodegradable polymer scaffolds for bone tissue engineering, Prof. Boccac...
The first joint scientific meeting between the Institute of Biomaterials at University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the Department of Hand, Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, BG Trauma Centre, Ludwigshafen, was held on 18th March in Erlangen organised by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Several young researc...
Professor Cornelia Kasper, affiliated with the Institute of Biotechnology at University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, BOKU, Vienna, Austria, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 5-6 March 2015 to present a seminar in the framework of our "Advances in Biomaterials" seminar series. She d...
Our review paper: "Boccaccini, A. R., et al., Electrophoretic deposition of carbon nanotube-ceramic nanocomposites, J. Europ. Ceram. Soc. 30, (2010), 1115-1129" is listed as one of the Most Cited articles in the Journal of the European Ceramic Society published since 2010. The article discusses the ...
The final meeting of project TOPbiomat, funded by the Emerging Fields Initiative of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), was held on 2nd March at the Institute of Biomaterials, chaired by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. The successful completion of the project was highlighted as well as the achieve...
Our paper: Fabrication of alginate–gelatin crosslinked hydrogel microcapsules and evaluation of the microstructure and physico-chemical properties by Bapi Sarker, Dimitrios G. Papageorgiou, Raquel Silva, Tobias Zehnder, Farhana Gul-E-Noor, Marko Bertmer, Joachim Kaschta, Konstantinos Chrissafis, Rai...
Professor Showan N. Nazhat, Associate Professor in the Department of Mining and Materials Engineering, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, visited our Institute and presented the seminar: "Anisotropic injectable tissue equivalents". He gave an overview on the latest research results in his group in...
