Miriam gave an invited talk entitled “Fully Crystalline Polymers, Liquid Crystals, And Shape-Anisotropic Particles From a Prototypical Rigid-Rod Polymer” at the Colloid and Interface Symposium (COINS 2019) in Hong Kong. Thanks to the organizers Anderson Shum (HKU Mechanical Engineering) and Yufeng Wang (HKU Chemistry) for putting together such a great symposium with lots of interesting contributions! [Read more]
Miriam attended the European Polymer Congress 2019 (EPF 2019) in Heraklion, Greece, and gave an invited keynote lecture “Hydrothermal Synthesis of Polyheterocyclics – Generating Organic High-Performance Polymers in Nothing But Hot Water” in the framework of the Europe-Australia symposium. Great conference! [Read more]
Hipassia gave a talk at the 20th International Symposium on Intercalation Compounds (ISIC 2019) in Sao Paulo, Brazil, entitled “Hydrothermal synthesis of light-harvesting organic-inorganic hybrid materials“.
Alonso, Michael, and Miriam attended the 11th Symposium on Polyimides & High-Performance Polymers (STEPI 11) in Montpellier, France. Alonso and Michael gave contributed talks, and Miriam an invited keynote lecture. [Read more]
The CeMM – Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences scientific advisory board meeting took place from May 19-22. Miriam is an Adjunct PI at CeMM and gave a talk at the SAB meeting. The meeting featured 30 excellent talks mainly by PhD students and postdocs, and we received very helpful feedback from the SAB members Carl-Henrik Heldin (Uppsala), Emmanuelle Charpentier (MPI Berlin), Janet Kelso (MPI Leipzig), Hidde Ploegh (Harvard), and Richard Flavell (Yale). [Read more]
Alonso, Fabián, Hipassia, Musthafa, Tobia, and Miriam attended the Functional Nanomaterials Symposium (FuNMat 2019) in Berlin. All gave contributed talks, and Miriam gave an invited keynote talk. Tobia won the Best Presenter Award sponsored by Wiley, with his talk “Controlling the Crystallization of All-Organic Salts“. [Read more]
The Austrian daily newspaper Die Presse published an article about our research on hydrothemal synthesis of organic materials entitled “Wasser, Druck und Wärme statt giftiger Chemie” (Water, pressure, and heat instead of toxic chemistry). Read the article here. [Read more]
Olivier‘s optical micrograph of a gold-polymer foam hybrid material prepared by hydrothermal synthesis was selected as on of the fianlists of the Canadian photography competition “La preuve par l’image“. Very cool, congratulations Olivier! [Read more]
Olivier attended the Frontiers in Polymer Science 2019 symposium in Budapest and presented his poster “Facile green hydrothermal synthesis of gold nanoparticles immobilized onto porous polyurethane foam monoliths“. [Read more]
Miriam attended this year’s High Polymer Research Group (HPRG) meeting in Pott Shrigley, UK. The meeting’s topic was “Polymers for Sustainability and Energy“. What an amazing conference! [Read more]