Our  review article “Biogenic metal oxides” just appeared in Biomimetics! We summarize how and why the materials class of metal oxides is generated by living organisms. Congratulations to the first author Hipassia! [Read more]

Together with Laura Hartmann and Mara Staffilani, Miriam is guest editing a special issue in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics entitled “Polymers for the Future”. Read the editorial to the issue here. The issue celebrates the 100^th anniversary of polymer science by providing a collection of feature articles. [Read more]

Dear students, this is an update regarding all courses offered by our lab in summer semester 2020. We have been working hard on adapting all content to distance learning. We will offer all lectures taught by Prof. Unterlass as video courses. Furthermore, we offer all oral exams as online exams. Please see the teaching section on our webpage for more information. [Read more]

Jenny attended the “AI Reaction Outcome & Synthetic Route Prediction 2020” (AI REACT) Conference in Gloucestershire, UK. Jenny had a great time there and learned a lot about the current state-of-the-art of AI in chemistry through great talks, posters and discussions. [Read more]

Professor Ryohei Ishige of the Tokyo Institute of Technology visited our Lab this week and gave a very interesting talk entitled “Control of Molecular Orientation for Rigid Polyimides Based on Lyotropic Liquid Crystalline Precursors” at the Institute of Materials Chemistry seminar. We are very grateful to Professor Ishige for his contribution! [Read more]

Professor Shinji Ando of the Tokyo Institute of Technology visited us this week at TU Wien as external examiner for Michael’s PhD defense. Moreover, Professor Ando gave a wonderful lecture entitled “Control and Enhancement of Anisotropic Thermal Diffusivity of Boron Nitride and Zinc Oxide Filled Polyimide Films” at the Institute of Materials Chemistry seminar. [Read more]

We are very proud of Michael, who passed his PhD viva with flying colours today! Michael’s PhD Thesis is entitled “Imide- and Benzimidazole-based Organic High-Performance Materials via Hydrothermal Synthesis”. Congratulations Michael, very, very well done! [Read more]

Hipassia is one of the young participants selected from all over the world to participate in the 70^th  Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting! This is an amazing honour and we are tremendously proud of Hipassia! [Read more]

Miriam gave an invited talk entitled “Hydrothermal Synthesis of Heterocycle-based High-Performance Materials” at the 200 Years Symposium on Heterocyclic Chemistry hosted by the TU Wien. We thank the organizers of this symposium for a great conference. [Read more]

Miriam kicked off the 1^st monthly meeting of the Scientific Graphic Design Club with a workshop on the topics of brainstorming and formstorming. All participants were very eager to challenge their own creativity on illustration design. We had a great time and are already looking forward to the next meeting! [Read more]