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15 - General Engineering
University of Warwick
Freeze casting of porous bioactive glass and bioceramics
First researcher to develop a novel approach of technologically challenging fabrication of 3D porous glass and bioceramic scaffolds for hard tissue engineering. This significant original research (best paper from 239) (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1551-2916.2008.02799.x/full) demonstrated process-optimised cost-effective hard tissue augmentation (3 times less expensive than commercial Vitoss) mimicking the native structure of bone. Resulted in academic and industrial collaboration for possible commercial exploitation by Saint-Gobain (Sylvain.Deville@saint-gobain.com) and Depuy (aashby2@its.jnj.com) as non-load bearing implants; Exploitation routes being explored. 5 invited lectures with scholarly international impact in this field: ICCPS-10 (Japan), MS&T08 (USA), PACRIM-8 (Canada), Sheffield and UCL; Ceramic Transactions (2009 and 2010) (onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/9780470538357.ch11/summary); (eu.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470905484.html)