The paper “Creating geomimetic polymers” on hydrothermal polymerization just went online in Materials Today – it’s open access, so check it out! [Read more]

Ana Subotic and Tobia Cavalli joined the team. Ana’s internship project will deal with the synthesis of hybrid materials, and Tobia’s MSc project will focus on hydrothermal polymerizations. We are glad to have Ana and Tobia with us and wish them lots of success for their research! [Read more]

2015 marks the 200 year anniversary of TU Vienna. On this special occasion the Austrian radio station Ö1 broadcasted a radio show featuring research carried out at TU Vienna. Among other researchers, Miriam was interviewed and explained our work on hydrothermal polymerization to the general public. The radio show can be found here. [Read more]

In today’s issue, the Austrian magazine profil wissen published an article on creativity and improvisation in research labs. The article focusses on ’self-made’ equipment, and featured Alonso’s injection set-up, together with a description of our research and illustrated with very artistic pictures by photographer Reiner Riedler. The article can be found here (in German only). [Read more]

We are glad to have our friend and collaboration partner Michael J. Bojdys, Assistant Professor at Charles University in Prague, as a guest today. His seminar is entitled “Layered functional materials – extending the ‘grapheme’ family” and will take place in room BA10B, 10^th floor, building BA, campus Getreidemarkt, TU Wien, at 4.30pm. [Read more]

Miriam has been awarded the Anton-Paar Science Award 2014 of the Austrian Society of Chemistry (GOeCH). The prize was awarded at this years general assembly on Nov 6^th in Vienna. We are honored that our work receives that much appreciation! Link to the press release by TU Vienna, and the press release by Anton Paar. [Read more]

Miriam has been nominated one of six finalists for the “Innovator of the year 2014” award by future zone  We are honored by the nomination for our work on hydrothermal polymerizations! [Read more]

Evgeniya Khaybulkina joined the team as a research intern. Her project deals with the synthesis and analysis of emulsions. We are glad to have Evgeniya with us and wish her a lot of success for her research! [Read more]

Miriam will be attending the Polydays 2014 (conference topic: “Beyond Self-Assembly – Making Polymeric Materials More Versatile”) held in Berlin, Germany, from Sept 30^th to Oct 2^nd. Miriam will give her talk “Monomer Pre-Organization in Salt Crystals and Their Solid-State Polymerizations to Anisotropic Homopolymer Particles” on Oct 1^st. [Read more]

Sebastian has successfully applied for participation in the 18^th Jülich Center for Neutron Scattering (JCNS) Lab course taking place from Sept 1^st-12^th in Jülich and Garching. We wish him a great workshop! [Read more]