Ms Kristin Engel, who carried out her Bachelor thesis in our Institute, has won the Society of Glass Technology (UK) Oldfield Award 2020 (3rd prize) for her Bachelor thesis: “Influence of the replacement of silica by boron trioxide on the properties of bioactive glass scaffolds”. The project was car... Continue

A new microtesting device is now available in our biomaterials laboratory in Ulrich Schalk Strasse. The instrument enables mechanical characterization of small biomaterial samples (specially hydrogels). The device offers a variety of testing setups for parallel plate compression, microindentation (u... Continue

On 26th Feb. 2021, Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini presented an online lecture in the framework of the "Materials Science" Seminar series of the Jacobs School of Engineering of University of California, San Diego (UCSD). He was introduced by Prof. Olivia Graeve, Department of  Mechanical and Aerospace ... Continue

Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini started the third consecutive period (2021/22) as member of the Executive Committee (EC) of the Federation of European Materials Societies (FEMS), representing the German Materials Society (DGM). The latest meeting of the FEMS EC took place on 24th February 2021 in remote fo... Continue

The third Review Meeting of the Centre for Functional and Surface-functionalised Glasses (FunGlass), EU funded project under the H2020-WIDESPREAD-01-2016-2017-TeamingPhase2 scheme, took place on February 23-24, 2021. This was an online meeting hosted by Prof. Dušan Galusek, director of the FunGlass ... Continue

The restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic have not stopped many researchers, PhD students and undergraduate visiting students to come to our Institute to carry out their research projects. They are investigating a wide range of topics, including 3D bioprinting, electrospinning, biopolymer-bi... Continue

Prof. Boccaccini will be an international partner of the project "Development and characterization of drug free bioactive glass nanoparticles for biomedical applications" funded by the Britisch Council  under the Pakistan-UK Education Gateway scheme. The principal investigator is Dr. Muhammad Atiq U... Continue

Our paper "Porous bioactive glass micro- and nanospheres with controlled morphology: developments, properties and emerging biomedical applications" co-authored by Dr. Kai Zheng, Dr. Baiyan Sui (Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, China), Ms Kanwal Ilyas (PhD student), and Prof. Aldo R.... Continue

On 11th February 2021, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini was an invited speaker at the London Materials Society (LMS) the London branch of the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining (IOM3). He presented the talk entitled: "Bioactive materials and biofabrication for tissue engineering: progress and chall... Continue

The latest progress meeting our international project: “Development of electrophoretic co-deposition of bioactive and antibacterial ceramics with biodegradable polymers to produce novel composite coatings for biomedical applications” was held remotely on 9th February 2021. The project has received f... Continue