On 24th November 2015 we received the visit of Dr. Annabel Braem, post-doctoral researcher at the Department of Materials Engineering (MTM), KU Leuven, Belgium. Dr. Braem is currently visiting the Institute of Surface Science and Corrosion at FAU, Prof. S. Virtanen. Dr. Braem has carried out extensi...
The Special Issue "GlaCERCo: "Glass and Ceramic Composites for High Technology Applications – Marie Curie Initial Training Network" has been published in the journal Advances in Applied Ceramics vol. 114 (2015) issue S1. The special issue was co-edited by Aldo R. Boccaccini (Institute of Biomaterial...
On 9th November 2015 we received the visit of Dr. Bernard Chenevier, Support Unit for Strategic Programs, Okayama University, Japan. We discussed collaborations between the Institute of Biomaterials, the FAU Institute of Particle Technology (represented by Prof. R. Klupp-Taylor, Prof. N. Vogel, Dr. ...
The progress meeting of the DFG funded collaborative project "Bioadaptive Coatings on Mg Alloys" was held on 4th November 2015 at the Institute of Biomaterials. This project is a collaborative effort of the Institute of Surface Science and Corrosion of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (Prof. S. ...
Following an invitation of Prof. Aleš Helebrant and Dr. Dana Rohanova, Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini presented on 2nd November 2015, the guest lecture "Bioactive Materials and Biofabrication in Tissue Engineering: Progress and Challenges" at the Department of Glass and Ceramics, University of Chemistry a...
The Max Bergmann Center of Biomaterials presented the Outstanding Biomaterials Thesis Award to Dr. Alexander Hoppe for his PhD thesis (Dr.-Ing.) completed in 2014 at the Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Institute of Biomaterials, under supervision of Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Aldo R. B...
On 11th September 2015 Marwa Tallawi successfully defended her doctoral thesis entitled: "Biomimetic PGS based scaffolds for cardiac tissue engineering", carried out under supervision of Professor Aldo R. Boccaccini at our Institute. In addition to Prof. Boccaccini, Dr. Ipsita Roy (Department of Mol...
Our review paper "Hoppe, A., et al., A review of the biological response to ionic dissolution products from bioactive glasses and glass-ceramics, Biomaterials 32 (2011) 2757-2774" is listed as the most cited article published in the journal Biomaterials since 2010, based on citation data extracted f...
The Journal of the Electrochemical Society (JES) Focus Issue on Electrophoretic Deposition, co-edited by Prof. Jay H. Dickerson (Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National Laboratory, and Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, USA) and Prof. Aldo R. Boccaccini, has been r...
Ms Teresa Buettner, who graduated last year from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering at FAU, has won the first place of the Oldfield Award 2015 of the Society of Glass Technology (SGT) for her Master thesis entitled "Analysis of Lithium containing Bioglass and comparison with 45S5 He...
