Month: July 2020

The review article "Advancing bioinks for 3D bioprinting using reactive fillers: A review" (co-authors: Susanne Heid and Aldo R. Boccaccini) has been published in Acta Biomaterialia . Here we review the group of multi-material bioinks incorporating inorganic bioreactive fillers being developed for b...

The on-line Summer School "Technologies for Biofabrication” organized in the framework of the Collaborative Research Centre (TRR 225) „From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” was successfully held on 20.-24. Juli 2020, coordinated by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Dr....

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini hosted the scientific board meeting of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 “From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models” <http://trr225biofab.de/de/>  held on 24th July 2020 as a face-to-face event (the first since March 2020) at ...

At the last General Assembly of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), held remotely on 15th July 2020, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was elected unanimously to serve a third period as member of the FEMS Executive Committee representing the German Materials Society (DGM) for the period 20...

We are happy to report that Dr. Jingjing Wu, former visiting PhD student in our Institute (2018), was one of the recipients of the prestigious 2019 Acta Student Award.  The team of judges consisting of editors of the journals Acta Materialia, Scripta Materialia, Acta Biomaterialia and Materialia eva...

During the first half of 2020 our research activities in collaboration with colleagues from 20 countries have resulted in 33 publications (listed below). We are very proud to be collaborating with such a high number of distinguished colleagues and project partners from around the world. We look forw...

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the (remote) meeting of the Executive Committee (EC) <https://www.fems.org/fems-executive-committee> of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS) <https://www.fems.org/>,  chaired by FEMS president Prof. Eric Le Bourhis, which took place on 1...

A new publication (Open Access) entitled "3D printed oxidized alginate-gelatin bioink provides guidance for C2C12 muscle precursor cell orientation and differentiation via shear stress during bioprinting" has been accepted in the journal  "Biofabrication". This paper features the collaboration of su...

Our new paper entitled  "3D printing and characterization of human nasoseptal chondrocytes laden dual crosslinked oxidized alginate-gelatin hydrogels for cartilage repair approaches" has been published in the journal Materials Science and Engineering C. This is the result of a collaboration led by ...

On 2nd July 2020, Prof. Stephan Barcikowski, Faculty of Chemistry, University of Duisburg-Essen, presented the (remote) lecture "Facile nanoparticle embedding in the feedstock of biomaterials Additive Manufacturing" in the framework of our seminar series "Advances in Biomaterials". We discussed also...