William Daniel Davenport
Bo Su, PhD
Professor of Biomedical Materials
  • School of Oral & Dental Sciences
    University of Bristol
    Bristol, England, UK
    Phone: 01173429493
    E-mail: B.Su@bristol.ac.uk

Education

1995-1998

PhD

University of Birmingham, UK

1983-1986

MEng

Changsha Institute of Technology (CIT), China

1979-1983

BSc

Changsha Institute of Technology (CIT), China

Biography

Bo Su is Professor of Biomedical Materials within the School of Oral & Dental Sciences at the University of Bristol. He has research experience in materials for over 25 years, including structural, functional and biomedical materials. After obtaining his PhD at the University of Birmingham in 1998, he spent five years as a post-doctoral researcher at Imperial College and Birmingham University respectively and was awarded an EPSRC Advanced Research Fellowship in 2003. He joined Bristol as a Senior Lecturer in 2005 and was promoted to Reader in 2009 and Professor in 2013. He has published more than 100 journal papers and holds two patents. He has received funding from EPSRC, BBSRC, MRC, NIHR, GWR, charities and industries.

Bo is a Fellow of Institute of Materials, Mineral and Mining (FIMMM) and a member of EPSRC Peer Review College.  His research interests are in materials processing and fabrication, including micro- and nano-fabrication and surface patterning of titanium, ceramics, and composites for biomedical applications. He leads the Biomaterials Engineering Group (bioMEG) and is the School Postgraduate Tutor.

 

Research Interest

  • Physical modulation of stem cells and bacteria
  • Multifunctional cell-instructive materials
  • Biomimetic and bio-inspired materials
  • Tissue engineering scaffolds
  • Orthopaedic and dental implants

 

Scientific Activities:

Experience

2005–2012

Senior Lecturer, Reader in Biomaterials, University of Bristol

2003-2008

EPSRC Advanced Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

1999-2003

Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Birmingham

1998-1999

Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Imperial College

1994-1995

Visiting Research Fellow, University of Oxford

1986-1994

Assistant Lecturer & Lecturer, CIT, China

 

Publications

  1. Chambers, C, Stewart, S, Su, B, Jenkinson, HE, Sandy, J & Ireland, A, 2016, ‘Silver doped titanium dioxide nanoparticles as antimicrobial additives to dental polymers’. Dental Materials.
  2. May, PW, Clegg, M, Silva, T, Zanin, H, Fatibello-Filho, O, Celorrio, V, Fermin, D, Welch, C, Hazell, GDA, Fisher, LE, Nobbs, AH & Su, B, 2016, ‘Diamond-coated ‘black silicon’ as a promising material for high-surface-area electrochemical electrodes and antibacterial surfaces’. Journal of Materials Chemistry B, vol 34., pp. 5737-5746
  3. Beddoes, CM, Whitehouse, MR, Briscoe, WH & Su, B, 2016, ‘Hydrogels as a Replacement Material for Damaged Articular Hyaline Cartilage’. Materials, vol 9.
  4. Tsimbouri, PM, Fisher, L, Holloway, N, Sjostrom, T, Nobbs, A, Meek, D, Su, B & Dalby, MJ, 2016, ‘Osteogenic and bactericidal surfaces from hydrothermal titania nanowires on titanium substrates’. Scientific Reports, vol 6.
  5. Ching, K, Andriotis, O, Li, S, Basnett, P, Su, B, Roy, I, Tare, R, Sengers, B & Stolz, M, 2016, ‘Nanofibrous poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)/ poly(3-hydroxyoctanoate) scaffolds provide a functional microenvironment for cartilage repair’. Journal of Biomaterials Applications.
  6. Fisher, LE, Yang, Y, Yuen, M-F, Zhang, W, Nobbs, AH & Su, B, 2016, ‘Bactericidal activity of biomimetic diamond nanocone surfaces’. Biointerphases, vol 11.
  7. Nadeem, D, Smith, CA, Dalby, MJ, Meek, RMD, Lin, S, Li, G & Su, B, 2015, ‘Three-dimensional CaP/gelatin lattice scaffolds with integrated osteoinductive surface topographies for bone tissue engineering’. Biofabrication, vol 7.
  8. Silverwood, RK, Fairhurst, PG, Sjöström, T, Welsh, F, Sun, Y, Li, G, Yu, B, Young, PS, Su, B, Meek, RMD, Dalby, MJ & Tsimbouri, PM, 2015, ‘Analysis of Osteoclastogenesis/Osteoblastogenesis on Nanotopographical Titania Surfaces’. Advanced Healthcare Materials, vol 5., pp. 947-955
  9. Sjostrom, T, Nobbs, A & Su, B, 2015, ‘Bactericidal nanospike surfaces via thermal oxidation of Ti alloy substrates’. Materials Letters, vol 167., pp. 22-26
  10. Diu, T, Faruqui, N, Sjöström, T, Lamarre, B, Jenkinson, HF, Su, B & Ryadnov, MG, 2014, ‘Cicada-inspired cell-instructive nanopatterned arrays’. Scientific Reports, vol 4., pp. 7122.
  11. P. M.Tsimbouri, L. Fisher, N. Holloway, T. Sjostrom, A. H. Nobbs, R. M. D Meek,
  12. B. Su & M. J. Dalby, Osteogenic and bactericidal surfaces from hydrothermal titania nanowires on titanium substrates, Scientific Reports, 6 (2016) 36857
  13. Leanne E. Fisher, Yang Yang, Muk-­‐Fung Yuen, Wenjun Zhang , Angela H. Nobbs and Bo Su , Bactericidal activity of biomimetic diamond nanocone surfaces, Biointerphases 11(1), 2016
  14. Terje Sjöström, Angela H Nobbs, Bo Su , Bactericidal nanospike surfaces via thermal oxidation of Ti alloy substrates, Materials Letters 167 (2016) 22-­‐26
  15. Danish Nadeem, Carol-Anne Smith, Matthew J Dalby, R M Dominic Meek, Sien Lin, Gang Li and Bo Su, Three-­‐dimensional CaP/gelatin lattice scaffolds with integrated osteoinductive surface topographies for bone tissue engineering, Biofabrication 7 (2015) 015005.
  16. Ting Diu, Nilofar Faruqui, Terje Sjostrom, Baptiste Lamarre, Howard F. Jenkinson, Bo Su & Maxim G. Ryadnov, Cicada-inspired cell-­‐instructive nanopatterned arrays, Scientific Reports 4 (2014) 7122.
  17. Terje Sjöström, Laura E. McNamara, Krishna Seunarine, R. M. Dominic Meek, Matthew J. Dalby and Bo Su, 2D and 3D nanopatterning of titanium for enhancing osteoinduction of stem cells at implant surfaces, Advanced Healthcare Materials 2 (2013) 1285-1293.

 

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