We are very happy to welcome Frank, who joined our group for his MSc thesis on the hydrothermal synthesis of hybrid materials. We wish Frank lots of success for his project! [Read more]

We warmly welcome Brendan, who is joining us as our first MSc student at the University of Konstanz. Brendan will be developing hydrothermal syntheses of framework materials. We wish him all the best for his MSc thesis research! [Read more]

We are very happy to welcome Pauline, who is joining our group for her Bachelor thesis on materials processing. We wish Pauline all the success for her project! [Read more]

We very warmly welcome our three new team members Daniel Block, Suman Chandra, and Robert Pazdzior, who all join us as postdocs. Daniel will be working with novel polymer materials and their processing, and Rob will work on the exploration of new hydrothermal syntheses at the University of  Konstanz. Suman joins us in the framework of CeMM’s Pre-ERC Postdoc Program in Vienna and will be working on the microwave-assisted hydrothermal synthesis of covalent organic frameworks for biomedical applications. [Read more]

We are very happy to have contributed to the Austrian pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai! The electron microscopy images of sand taken by Hipassia are projected onto sand sculptures in the pavilion. We are grateful for the fantastic collaboration with Ars Electronica Solutions. To read more, access here. [Read more]

Miriam gave an invited talk entitled “Making and breaking heterocyclics- and aromatics-based materials with hot water” at the European Young Chemists’ Meeting 2022 held at the Universität Fribourg. Thank you very much to the organizers for the invitation and to all participants for their interest! [Read more]

Miriam gave an invited talk entitled “Towards highly crystalline polyimides by hydrothermal synthesis” at the 29th Japan Polyimide and Aromatic Polymers Conference held at  the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Thank you very much to the organizers and to all participants! [Read more]

We are very excited to share our latest publication entitled “Siloxane-based main-chain poly(ionic liquid)s via Debus-Radziszewski reaction”. The article is the result of our collaboration with the research group of Prof. Jiayin Yuan (Stockholm University). We would like to congratulate all co-authors, especially first author Manuel! [Read more]

We proudly present our latest publication entitled “Compression and Thermal Expansion Behaviors of Highly Crystalline Polyimide Particles Prepared from Poly(amic acid) and Monomer Salts”. This study is the result of  our collaboration  with Prof. Shinji Ando’s Group from Tokyo Institute of Technology. [Read more]

Several press releases and articles have been published, featuring our latest study on the hydrothermal polymerization of porous aromatic polyimide networks including the use of artificial intelligence for deciphering complex morphology evolutions. Press coverages have appeared in Kurier, Chemeurope.com, Solarify / Max-Planck-Institut für chemische Energiekonversion, CeMM, and the Austrian Press Agency APA. [Read more]