We are thrilled to welcome Claire and Luca, who recently joined our group to perform their bachelor theses. Claire will work with Frank on functional pigments and Luca will work with Alonso and Tobias on the hydrothermal synthesis of polyimide materials. We wish successful experiments and a great time with us! [Read more]
Dr. Fabienne Gauffre (Institut des Sciences Chimiques de Rennes (ISCR) – UMR CNRS 6226 Chimie Organique et Interfaces (COrInt), visited us this week in Konstanz. She gave an exciting invited talk in the institute seminar entitled “From surfactant free emulsions to hybrid nanocapsules: an Odyssee into Ouzo”. We are indebted to Dr. [Read more]
Miriam was invited to give a talk entitled “Accessing organic materials through hydrothermal synthesis” in the framework of the Makromolekulares Kolloquium jointly organized by the Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz and the MPI for Polymer Research in Mainz. We thank the organizers for hosting Miriam and excellent discussions. [Read more]
We are thrilled to welcome to Yurii Kolbediuk, who just joined our team as a research assistant working on minerals. We look forward to working together and wish Yurii all the best for his project! [Read more]
We would like to extend a warm welcome to Frederic Hallmann, who just joined us for his master thesis on Sulfur-containing advanced materials. We are thrilled to have Frederic join our team and wish him successful syntheses! [Read more]
Miriam kicked-off the Focus Area Materials Open House 2023 of the Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing (BAM – Bundesanstalt für Materialforschung und -prüfung) with a presentation on sustainable design and materials synthesis. [Read more]
We are happy to welcome Lisa Bernhard, who joins our lab for her BSc thesis. Lisa will work with Olivier Gazil on in situ hydrothermal synthesis of metallic nanoparticles in soft matter. We wish Lisa a wonderful and successful time with us. [Read more]
Marianne successfully defended her PhD thesis entitled “the hydrothermal route to imide-linked network and framework materials”. The whole team congratulates Marianne for her impressive work and wishes her all the best for her future endeavors! [Read more]
Our group’s Science Day took place on March 29th in Konstanz. We enjoyed a full day of presentations by all group members on their latest findings and future projects along with in-depth discussions. As usual, we celebrated the success of the event with a group dinner in our favorite restaurant. [Read more]
We are very happy to that Frank Sailer joined us as PhD candidate. Frank will focus his research in the synthesis of hybrid materials based on silicates. We wish Frank an amazing PhD research time and maximal successes for this new chapter in his career. [Read more]