2020 marks the 100^th anniversary of Nobel prize winner Hermann Staudinger’s conceptualization of polymers. On this occasion the board members of Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics (founded by Staudinger in 1953) have joint forces to write a perspective article (read here) on the future of polymer science entitled “The next 100 years of polymer science”. [Read more]

Our paper entitled “Hydrothermal Generation of Conjugated Polymers on the Example of Pyrrone Polymers and Polybenzimidazoles” published in Angewandte Chemie is featured on the back cover page! Congratulations to the first author Michael and all co-authors! [Read more]

One of our patents on hydrothermally producing polyimides was selected as on of three finalists for Austrian patent award “Staatspreis Patent”! We are very happy about being among the finalists and are crossing fingers for the results, which will be revealed at the award ceremony on November 9^th. Read TU Wien’s press release here. [Read more]

Hipassia participated in this years extraordinary online version of the Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, the “Online Science Days 2020”. The entire Unterlass Lab is very proud of Hipassia, and congratulates her for being selected for participation! [Read more]

Our  review article “Biogenic metal oxides” just appeared in Biomimetics! We summarize how and why the materials class of metal oxides is generated by living organisms. Congratulations to the first author Hipassia! [Read more]

Together with Laura Hartmann and Mara Staffilani, Miriam is guest editing a special issue in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics entitled “Polymers for the Future”. Read the editorial to the issue here. The issue celebrates the 100^th anniversary of polymer science by providing a collection of feature articles. [Read more]

Dear students, this is an update regarding all courses offered by our lab in summer semester 2020. We have been working hard on adapting all content to distance learning. We will offer all lectures taught by Prof. Unterlass as video courses. Furthermore, we offer all oral exams as online exams. Please see the teaching section on our webpage for more information. [Read more]

Jenny attended the “AI Reaction Outcome & Synthetic Route Prediction 2020” (AI REACT) Conference in Gloucestershire, UK. Jenny had a great time there and learned a lot about the current state-of-the-art of AI in chemistry through great talks, posters and discussions. [Read more]

Professor Ryohei Ishige of the Tokyo Institute of Technology visited our Lab this week and gave a very interesting talk entitled “Control of Molecular Orientation for Rigid Polyimides Based on Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Precursors” at the Institute of Materials Chemistry seminar. We are very grateful to Professor Ishige for his contribution! [Read more]

Professor Shinji Ando of the Tokyo Institute of Technology visited us this week at TU Wien as external examiner for Michael’s PhD defense. Moreover, Professor Ando gave a wonderful lecture entitled “Control and Enhancement of Anisotropic Thermal Diffusivity of Boron Nitride and Zinc Oxide Filled Polyimide Films” at the Institute of Materials Chemistry seminar. [Read more]