The Österreichisches Patentamt (Austrian Patent Agency) published an interview with Miriam, since our team  has  received the Austrian patent of the year 2020 award. The prize was awarded for one of our  patents  on the hydrothermal synthesis (HTS) of crystalline polyimides. HTS is an environmentally friendly method towards high-performance polymers. [Photo by Loacker] [Read more]

We are delighted to share our latest cover page of  the 8^th issue of ChemSusChem which comes with an author profile and accompanies our publication on hydrothermally synthesized quinoxalines. Our manuscript reports the rapid (10 minutes!) hydrothermal synthesis of quinoxalines, a large-scale computational comparison of all existing reported synthetic alternatives, and the testing of the compounds as cell-staining fluorescent dyes. [Read more]

Our article on crystalline polyimide-reinforced epoxy composites, a collaboration with Thomas Konegger’s lab, was selected to be featured on the inside cover of Materials Advances! The coverpage was designed by Miriam and is intended to reflect both joining forces in a collaboration and joining materials properties in a composite. [Read more]

We are very excited to share our latest  publication entitled “Green hydrothermal synthesis of fluorescent 2,3-diarylquinoxalines and large-scale computational comparison to existing alternatives”. This work is the result of a great collaboration with Stefan Kubicek’s Lab (CeMM  – Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences) and Jörg Menche’s Lab (Max Perutz Laboratories, University of Vienna). [Read more]

We just  published the first example of a composite reinforced with crystalline polyimide particles in Materials Advances. The high crystallinity of the polyimide particles was achieved by hydrothermal polymerization. This publication resulted from  a collaboration with Thomas Konneger’s lab and is entitled “High modulus polyimide particle-reinforcement of epoxy composites” . [Read more]

We are very excited to share Miriam’s participation on the 7th Vienna Science Ball 2021 (Wiener Ball der Wissenschaften 2021), which took place as a special Corona edition featuring six scientists, among them Miriam and the Science Busters. The Corona edition was broadcast on TV and can be watched on YouTube [Read more]

We are very happy to share Miriam’s editorial article entitled “Recent advances in hydrothermal materials synthesis“, which accompanies her editor’s choice collection on works on hydrothermal materials synthesis published in either the Journal of Materials Chemistry A or Materials Advances. The collection can be found here. [Read more]

We wish all collaborators, students, and friends of our work the very best for 2021! May the force be with you! [Read more]

Our team won  the “Staatspreis Patent 2020”, the bianually awarded Austrian state award for the best patent, for our work on the synthesis of  highly crystalline high-performance polymers in nothing but ‘hot water’. Our work was selected out of more than 300 candidates. We congratulate the whole team for the joint work! [Read more]

The Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research distinguished Michael (press release by TU Wien) with the state award “Award of Excellence” for his doctoral thesis on new and environmentally friendly synthetic methods towards special high-performance polymers. We congratulate Michael for this amazing recognition! [Read more]