February 2017 › Institute of Biomaterials

First exchange visit to Northwestern Polytechnical University in China

From 15.2. until 8.3.17 two PhD students of our Institute (Ms Yuyun Yang and Ms Svenja Heise) and one PhD student of WW4 (Mr Juncen Zhou) visited the School of Life Sciences, Northwestern Polytechnical University in Xi'an, China. They worked in the Laboratory for Biomaterials and Pharmaceutical Tech...

DFG project “Bioadaptive Coatings on Mg alloys”: new publications

Two new publications have resulted recently from our DFG funded project "Bioadaptive Coatings on Mg alloys" in collaboration with the research group of Prof. Sanna Virtanen, Institute for Surface Science and Corrosion at FAU. The paper of Hoehlinger et al. presents innovative surface pre-treatments...

Governing Council and General Assembly meetings of European Virtual Institute KMM-VIN in Brussels

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, member of the Governing Council (GC) of the European Virtual Institute on Knowledge-based Multifunctional Materials (KMM-VIN), attended the GC and General Assembly meetings of KMM-VIN that took place on 21st February 2017 in Brussels. Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini is coordinat...

Kick-off meeting of collaborative project in Japan

The kick-off meeting of the project "Development of nano-scale artificial magnetic lattice (AML) and application for controlling light and electromagnetic wave" led by Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan, took place on 17th February 2017 at Toyohashi University of Technology, Tempaku, Toyohash...

EU project ReBioStent: final project meeting in Brussels.

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the final meeting of the project "Reinforced Bioresorbable Biomaterials for Therapeutic Drug Eluting Stents (ReBioStent)", held in Brussels on 15th February 2017. Prof. Boccaccini was the leader of the work package (WP) 3 in this project and he presented a summary o...

Prof. Boccaccini in the Advisory Committee of iMEDITEC conference in Malaysia

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini will serve in the Advisory Committee of the International Medical Device and Technology Conference (iMEDITEC 2017) to be held on 6-7 September 2017 in Universiti Teknologi Malaysia, Johor, Malaysia. The call for abstracts for presentations at the conference is available.

Highly cited review paper on bioactive glass scaffolds

Our review paper "Bioactive Glass and Glass-Ceramic Scaffolds for Bone Tissue Engineering" written by Dr. Lutz-Christian Gerhardt and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, published in the Open Access journal "Materials" is listed as one of the most cited papers published in the journal. The paper presents a c...

Emerging Fields Initiative: Molecular Communications project kick-off meeting

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the kick-off meeting of the project "Molecular Communication", funded by the Emerging Fields Initiative (EFI) of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. The meeting took place on 3rd Feb. 2017, organised by project coordinator Prof. Robert Schober, Chair for Digital C...

Professor Boccaccini visits University of Saarland

On 1st Feb. 2017 Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini visited the Chair for Functional Materials of University of Saarland, Saarbruecken (Head: Prof. Frank Muecklich, pictured with Prof. Boccaccini and Dr. Flavio Soldera, Functional Materials Saarbruecken). FAU and Univ. of Saarland are partners with Nation...

Month: February 2017