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Our new paper "Cu, Zn doped borate bioactive glasses: Antibacterial efficacy and dose-dependent in vitromodulation of murine dendritic cells", . This is the result of a research collaboration with Dr. Elisabeth Zinser, Department of Immune Modulation,  University Hospital Erlangen (Head: Prof. A. St... Continue

The Special Issue "50 Years of Bioactive Glasses" has been published in the journal Biomedical Glasses. Guest editors of this special issue were Prof. Julian Jones (UK), Prof. Francesco Baino (Italy), Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini (Germany). This special issue includes a collection of papers written by m... Continue

The review article "Antibacterial biohybrid nanofibers for wound dressings"  (authors: Dr Shahin Homaeigohar and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini) is available online in the journal Acta Biomaterialia. In this review paper, the field of antibacterial biohybrid nanofibrous materials for wound healing applica... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini and Prof. Ivo Dlouhy , senior researcher at Institute of Physics of Materials (IPM), Czech Academy of Sciences and Director, Institute of Materials Science and Engineering, Brno University of Technology, Brno, Czech Republic, who met recently at the KMM VIN  General Assembly... Continue

Our publication (short communication) entitled "Cell-laden alginate dialdehyde–gelatin hydrogels formed in 3D printed sacrificial gel"has been published in J. Mater. Sci. Mater. Med. The research presented in this paper was carried out in the context of the doctoral thesis of Dr. Supachai Reakasame ... Continue

Dr. Rainer Detsch and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the progress meeting of the Collaborative Research Centre TRR/SFB 225 "From the fundamentals of biofabrication towards functional tissue models" held on 9-11 March 2020 in Kloster Banz, Germany. The Centre has received funding from the German R... Continue

On 6th March 2020, Prof. Boccaccini met with the collaborators at TU Darmstadt  to discuss the progress of our DFG funded project on ion-doped bioactive glasses with outstanding high temperature crystallization resistance. The meeting took place at the Institute for Materials Science, Dispersive Sol... Continue

Prof. Thomas Moskalewicz, from Faculty of Metals Engineering and Industrial Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland, visited the Institute of Biomaterials on 5th March. Prof. Moskalewicz  and Prof. Boccaccini are the principal investigators of the new project entitled: "De... Continue

On 4th March 2020 we received the visit of Prof. Carsten Werner , Leibniz Institute for Polymer Research, and Head of the Institute Biofunctional Polymer Materials within the Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials, Dresden, hosted by Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini. Prof. Werner presented the invited talk "Ce... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini attended the XRM (X-ray microscopy)-Workshop held on 3rd March 2020 at Fraunhofer Institute for Microstructure of Materials and Systems (Fraunhofer IMWS)  in Halle, Germany. In this symposium, chaired by Prof. Thomas Höche, Head of Business Unit Optical Materials and Technol... Continue