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 29^th 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]

Frank presented his MSc thesis entitled “Synthesis of dye@metal oxide hybrid materials”. The whole team congratulates Frank for his impressive work! [Read more]

Miriam will give an invited talk entitled “Water as near-universal solvent for materials synthesis and processing” at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) on February 27th, 2023. [Read more]

Our latest publication entitled “Urethane functions can reduce metal salts under hydrothermal conditions: synthesis of noble metal nanoparticles on flexible sponges applied in semi-automated organic reduction” just appeared in the Journal of Materials Chemistry A. Congratulations to all co-authors and especially to first author Olivier! [Read more]