Marianne was awarded with the FemChem travel grant for attending the International Symposium on Porous Organic Polymers (POPs 2019) in Heidelberg. Well done Marianne!

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Marwan was awarded with the prestigious VATAT Fellowship by the Israeli Ministry of Higher Education for his postdoc research on hydrothermal synthesis of dyes. The whole team is very proud  – congratulations Marwan! [Read more]

We welcome Eleonora and Johannes, who will be working together with Marianne and Musthafa respectively on hydrothermal synthesis of high performance materials. We wish you all the best with your syntheses! In the picture from left to write: Musthafa, Johannes, Eleonora, and Marianne. [Read more]

Miriam visited the University of Liverpool this week and gave an inspirational talk at the career event “What do you want to be when you grow up? ” for PhD students and postdocs. Moreover, Miriam also gave a talk on our research at the chemistry department’s seminar entitled “Hydrothermal Synthesis of Organic Materials”. [Read more]

We are delighted to have participated in the International Symposium on Porous Organic Polymers (POPs 2019) in Heidelberg. Miriam gave a talk entitled “Green Synthesis of Porous Polyheterocyclics by Hydrothermal Polymerization” and Marianne and Musthafa each presented their posters: “Monodisperse Porous Polyimide Network Particles: No Need for Crystallinity? [Read more]

Fabián attended the International Symposium on Dyes and Pigments (ISDP 2019) in Sevilla and gave a colorful talk entitled “Synthesis of novel imidazole derivatives exhibiting solid state fluorescence”. [Read more]

Miriam represented the Austrian Academy of Science (ÖAW) at the 32^nd European Crystallographic Meeting (ECM32) in Vienna, where she handed over the ÖAW poster awards. Congratulations to all awardees and participants. [Read more]

New paper published in Macromolecules entitled “Highly crystalline, nanostructured polyimide microparticles via green and tunable solvothermal polymerization”, where we show how nanostructured polyimides can be generated using solely the required monomers and non-harmful alcohols. Congratulations to first author Michael! [Read more]

We were very happy to have Professor Susanta Banerjee of the Institute of Technology Kharagpur as a guest in our group today! Professor Banerjee gave an inspiring talk entitled “Semi-fluorinated polymers and their membrane properties” and we had great discussions on high-performance materials. We thank Susanta for his visit! [Read more]

We are happy to announce that as of today Miriam joins the team of Colloid and Polymer Science as an associate editor. Miriam is very much looking forward to handling articles in the field of colloid and polymer chemistry. [Read more]