Month: June 2020

Our collaborative paper with the group of Prof.  J. Muñoz-Saldaña, at Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-Querétaro), Mexico, has been published in Materials Letters. This paper entitled "In-vitro bioactivity and cytotoxicity of polarized (Bi0.5N...

The University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) tops the list of German universities in the category "Citations per Faculty", according the the latest edition of the prestigious "QS World University Rankings(R)". In this important category that indicates the impact of the research being carried out in th...

On Monday 22nd June, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini delivered an invited lecture in the framework of the BioEngineering and Therapeutic Solutions (BEaTS) Seminar series, Ottawa Heart Institute, University of Ottawa, Canada. The seminar was hosted by Prof. Emilio I. Alarcon, Principal Investigator and Labo...

On 19th June, Prof. Boccaccini presented the lecture "Bioactive materials  in tissue engineering: progress and challenges" in the framework of the "Distinguished Lecture Series" of the Faculty of Engineering,  Universiti Teknologi Malaysia. The lecture, delivered remotely, addressed one of the Unite...

Three of our papers have been named Top Downloaded Papers 2018-2019 in the journals Adv. Eng. Mater. , J. Biomed. Mater. Res. and Macromol. Bioscience . The list includes papers published in the respective journals between January 2018 and December 2019. We thank all co-authors for their great cont...

Our new paper entitled "Ionically and Enzymatically Dual Cross-Linked Oxidized Alginate Gelatin Hydrogels with Tunable Stiffness and Degradation Behavior for Tissue Engineering", has just been published in ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. This paper results from our research activities in the framework of th...

Prof. Boccaccini attended the Board meeting of the German Materials Society (DGM), held remotely on 10th June 2020. Prof. Boccaccini is the representative of DGM to the Executive Committee of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS). Prof. Boccaccini currently chairs the Board of the DG...

A new publication featuring the collaboration of subprojects A01, A02, A07, B06, B08 if the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” has been accepted for publication (Open Access) in the journal Biofabrication. The study ...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini celebrates 10 years as Editor-in-Chief (EiC) of Materials Letters. The journal is one of the "classical" journals in the field of materials science and engineering. It was founded in 1982 and has seen a continuous increase of the impact factor (IF) over the years, the curren...

Dr. Elisa Mele, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Materials, Loughborough University, UK, was an invited speaker in our (remote) seminar series "Advances in Biomaterials", held on 28th May 2020. Dr. Mele presented the lecture: "Porous materials for biomedical applications: from electrospinning to...