A Conjugated polymers have gained significant interest as highly conducting organic materials with versatile surface morphology. In this study, we demonstrate that the electrodeposition of poly(3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene), PEDOT, in the presence of a d-glucopyranoside-...

The TERMIS-EU 2019 meeting was held from the 27th to the 31st of May 2019 at Rhodes, Greece. The theme of TERMIS this year was ‘Tissue Engineering Therapies: From concept to clinical translation and commercialisation’. The meeting is highly important to scientists, cli...

Marc Fernandez was awarded the Ph.D degree after successfully defending his thesis on September 4th, 2019. Marc was co-supervised by Prof Abhay Pandit and was examined by Dr Ted Vaughan (NUI Galway) and Prof Pere Roca Cusachs (University of Barcelona). Marc has been a...

A consortium of Neurent Medical Ltd (a BioInnovate Ireland spin out) and the Biggs lab at CÚRAM will benefit from €2.8 million in research funding following the recent announcement of the Government’s Disruptive Technologies Innovation Fund. The project, ARDENT II will...

Dr Biggs presented research by Marc Fernandez at the The IEEE 17th International Symposium on Electrets, University of Limerick. Dielectric materials possessing quasi-permanent electrical charge or dipole polarisation are known as electrets. Electrets can generate elec...

 James Britton, a PhD student in the Bigg's group was rewarded a Biomaterials and advanced physical techniques for Regenerative Cardiology and Neurology ( BIONECA ) travel scholarship to research in the lab of Dr. António Salgado. 

Dr. Salgado's...

Advancement in polymer technologies, facilitated predominantly through chemical engineering approaches or through the identification and utilization of novel renewable resources, has been a steady focus of biomaterials research for the past 50 years. Aliphatic polyeste...

Carbon nanomaterials show great promise for a wide range of applications due to their excellent physicochemical and electrical properties. Since their discovery, the state-of-the-art has expanded the scope of their application from scientific curiosity to impactful sol...

Advances in neural interface technologies have sought to identify electroactive materials that are able to translate neural depolarisation events into digital signals or modulate neural firing through ionic or electrical stimulation with greater efficiency. An ideal ma...

Topographical modification holds promise for the development of functionalized neural interfaces to mediate initial cell adhesion and the subsequent evolution of gliosis, minimizing the onset of a proinflammatory glial phenotype, to provide long‐term stability. In our...