SEMINAR

Biomaterials and Tissue Engineering Research Center

Shanghai Institute of Ceramics, Chinese Academy of Sciences

中国科学院上海硅酸盐研究所生物材料与组织工程研究中心

Biomedical applications of piezoelectric and magnetoelectric scaffolds

Speaker：Prof. Roman Surmenev

(Tomsk Polytechnic University,Russia)

报告时间：2026年06月24日（星期三）10:00-12:00

报告地点：长宁园区4号楼14楼第一会议室

联系人：朱钰方 研究员（52411808）

欢迎广大科研人员和研究生参加！

Personal information:

Dr. Roman Surmenev is currently a professor at TPU. He received his Candidate of Sciences degree (equivalent to PhD) at TPU in 2008 and a Doctor of Sciences degree from the Institute of Strength Physics and Materials Science in 2020. From 2013 to 2015, he was doing research at Fraunhofer IGB (Germany) as a Marie Curie fellow, focusing on the development of novel biomedical materials and on plasma surface interactions. From 2018 to 2020, he was working as a Humboldt fellow at the University of Cologne (Germany) on the topic of novel ferroelectric and magnetoelectric materials and composites for biomedical, photovoltaic, and other prospective applications. Prof. Surmenev has served as an associate editor of RSC Advances and is currently an associate editor at Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology. Prof. Surmenev has won several international prestigious awards, e.g., Best Oral Presentation (Materials Science and Engineering [MSE] 2020), Marie Curie Fellowship IIF (2013–2015), Humboldt Fellowship (2018–2019), several DAAD fellowships, and a CRDF global grant. Dr. Surmenev is supervising (and participating in) several national and international research projects and contributing his expertise in innovative research in the field of ferroelectric, magnetoelectric, and magnetic materials. He has got H-index of 45 and more than 200 papers indexed in Scopus.

Fields of interest: electrospinning, composite materials, nanomaterials, biomaterials, tissue engineering, 3D-printing.

Abstract:

The talk will be devoted to an overview of various types of piezoelectric and magnetoelectric polymer-based materials in the form of scaffolds for stimulation of cellular activity (proliferation, differentiation, etc.), as well as for regeneration of tissues. Piezoelectric and magnetoelectric materials are being studied for tissue engineering such as bone, peripheral nerves, muscles and others. The key advantages of these materials are their capability of non-invasive electrical stimulation and/or targeted drugs delivery/release, when exposed to external physical stimuli (e.g. ultrasound, magnetic fields in modes safe for biological tissues); alternatively, shape-morphing at physiological temperatures is also possible. Currently, large-scale interdisciplinary studies are being conducted on the possibilities of using smart electroactive materials to treat various wide-spread diseases, such as bone cancer, which in some cases are not amenable to treatment by traditional methods. Some elaborated strategies to design a smart electroactive scaffold, which allows mimicking endogenous potentials, will be discussed.