Biointerfaces

The Biointerfaces Team recently went on a lab excursion and had a great and not too wet day in the Tamina Gorge and enjoyed lunch at 'Altes Bad Pfäfers'. A big thank you to the the team at Oerlikon Balzers for hosting us for a guided company tour.

Looking forward to co-hosting this great event! Thank you Florence [Pfammatter] L. for organizing!

🆕#Welcome to Empa 🎉 We wish you a very successful #Master project! Lucas Nourrisson will work with Katharina Hast on a multicomponent #Supramolecular #Hydrogel

🎉 Congratulations to Katharina Hast on her excellent #poster presentation showcasing our collaborative work between three Empa Labs! 🎈 Biointerfaces Biomimetic Membranes and Textiles @Particles-Biology Interactions https://lnkd.in/daMU4ugP

New paper out in Advanced Functional Materials! Great multidisplinary collaboration between Empa researchers from the Biointerfaces Lab, the Mechanics of Materials & Nanostructures Lab, and ETH Zürich D-MATL to investigate how the surface chemistry of palladium, platinum, and titanium-based bull metallic glasses can steer their response to biological systems https://lnkd.in/ehQJSHfR

What started out as an unexpected observation, led to some interesting findings where a single amino acid turns out to be responsible for impairing thiol-ene coupling and instead initiating heterogeneous crosslinking in a norbornene-functionalized polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel system. Check out the full story published in Cell Reports Physical Science

Thrilled to share our latest research published in Advanced Healthcare Materials on the application of femtosecond laser technology to enhance implant integration into bone tissue. Our study describes novel designer surface topographies featuring micro- and nano-scale surface features and a simple method to make implant surfaces hydrophilic. Laser-textured implant surfaces enhance bone progenitor cell mineralization capacity and show superior early osseointegration in comparison to sandblasted and acid-etched state-of-the-art implant surfaces. Mechanistically, we show that the enhanced osseointegration is primarily driven by the biological response to the surface and not the mechanical interlocking provided by the roughness of the surface! This marks another output from our Innosuisse-funded project in collaboration with researchers from Empa labs in St. Gallen, Dübendorf, and Thun, and industrial partners Straumann Group, GF Machining Solutions, and ANTHOGYR. Dive into the full study to learn more: https://lnkd.in/dA-2KAwr

Having spent the last 2 days at the Swiss Society for Biomaterials & Regenerative Medicine (SSB+RM) annual meeting 2024, I could listen to inspiring presentations by top senior and young scientists, connect with great researchers in the field and develop new ideas for future collaborations. It was fun to organize this event together with Maartje Bastings and Anna Marsano and it would not have been possible without the constant support by Maite Strasser, Nunzia Di Maggio, Martina Viola, Max Urbanczyk (and many other helping hands in the background). Many thanks to Empa for having been such a great and super-supportive host of the meeting and also a big thanks to our sponsors (Exabone GmbH, AO Research Institute Davos (ARI), RMS foundation, Cellec Biotek AG, Zeiss) and exhibitor (TissueLabs).    Very much looking forward to meeting the community again at the SSB+RM annual meeting 2025 at EPFL – stay tuned for more information! 

#OBAFair #StGallen  📣 vom Donnerstag, 29. August bis Sonntag, 1. September 2024  👉 haben alle die Möglichkeit, die unterschiedlichsten Bildungs- und Karrierewege zu entdecken und auszuprobieren. Wir freuen uns auf Ihren Besuch an unserem Empa-Stand! https://lnkd.in/dgRjiwF5