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]

We are happy to welcome Max Schürmann, who joins our lab for his MSc thesis. Max will work with Robert Pazdzior on in-line/on-line spectroscopy for flow chemistry. We wish Max a wonderful and successful time with us. [Read more]

Our group’s Science Day took place on February 15^th in Konstanz. We had a full day of discussion on sustainable science and a long brainstorming session for future projects. We enjoyed an impromptu gathering afterwards and a nice dinner in one of our favorite restaurants. Thanks to all group members for your participation and especially to Lukas from CeMM, for joining remotely! [Read more]

Brendan presented his MSc thesis entitled “Hydrothermal synthesis of spirobifluorene-based polyimides”. The whole team congratulates Brendan for his work and wishes him all the best for his next endeavors! [Read more]

We are beyond happy to welcome back Celine Kuchler, who joins our lab as a research assistant on a project on morphology control of microparticles. We wish Celine a wonderful  time with us and maximal success for her research! [Read more]

Our manuscript “Dual redox-active porous polyimides as high performance and versatile electrode material for next-generation batteries” was just published in Materials Horizons. We synthesized the presented advanced polyimide material in a sustainable fashion, i.e., in solely water. We thank all co-authors for their contributions and Prof. David Mecerreyes (POLYMAT, San Sebastián) for the fantastic collaboration!  [Read more]

We are very happy to welcome Arthur, who joins our group as an exchange PhD student.  Arthur is carrying out his PhD at Polytechnique Montréal working on high-performance polymer processing in the group of Prof. Nick Virgilio. We are thrilled to have Arthur stay with us for 4 months and we wish him a great time in the lab and in beautiful Konstanz! [Read more]

We are very excited to welcome Josiah Walker to our team! Josiah joins our group as a research assistant working together with Alonso on the synthesis of porous polyimide materials. We wish Josiah maximal successes and fun with his research project! [Read more]

We are excited to welcome the latest member of our group, Florian Vollstädt, who joins our group for his master thesis on the hydrothermal synthesis of organic high-performance nanomaterials. We wish Florian an exciting time in the lab and maximal  success for his research! [Read more]