Victor Santos Rosales wins the Flucomp Prize to the Best PhD Thesis on Supercritical Fluids

Víctor Santos-Rosales, post-doctoral researcher of BIOAEROGEL2HEAL project team, has been awarded with the Flucomp Prize for the PhD Thesis entitled “New strategies for the production of ready-to-implant bone scaffolds using supercritical fluid technology”.

This prize to the Best PhD Thesis in the 2020-2021 period is awarded by the Flucomp Association, the Spanish-Portuguese association of experts in compressed fluid technology.

The PhD Thesis of Víctor Santos-Rosales is a step-forward to the development of advanced processing strategies for biomaterials applied to biomedical applications, particularly for bone regenerative medicine. A key outcome of his interdisciplinary and collaborative PhD research is his contribution in the research line of solvent-free processing strategies for medicated bone scaffolds using supercritical CO2. Several technological strategies for the production of bone scaffolds with tunable porosity and high incorporation yields of drugs were herein developed. In other innovation of his PhD Thesis, the supercritical sterilization was incorporated and integrated in the preparation of bone scaffolds from biomaterials and this approach was even compatible with drug-loaded scaffolds.