Miriam was interviewed in Radio NJoy‘s radio show “start me up” on her experiences in founding her own company UGP materials. Listen to the show here. [Read more]

The study “Acid Free Oxidation and Simple Dispersion Method of MWCNT for High-Performance CFRP” lead by Prof. Helga Lichtenegger (Chair of Materials Physics, BOKU – University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna) just got published in the journal Nanomaterials! We are happy to have contributed to this study! [Read more]

As prize for Miriam winning the science slam at the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) Be Open Festival, we obtained a ticket (sponsored by the FWF and the I.E.C.T. – the Institute for Entrepreneurship Cambridge Tyrol Hermann Hauser) to the Falling Walls Labs in Berlin. PhD student Tobia attended the event – thanks to the FWF and the I.E.C.T. [Read more]

We are extremely happy to share that Miriam is one of the newly appointed Adjunct PIs at CeMM – Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences! [Read more]

Lukas, Patrick, Marianne, Hipassia, and Musthafa (from left to right) attended the Green Chemistry Conference Vienna 2018, held in the framework of the Austrian Presidency of the Council of the European Union. [Read more]

Alonso‘s & Miriam‘s review article on environmentally friendly synthesis of colorants just appeared in Revista de Quimica and is featured on the cover page! The review “Ecofriendly synthesis of colorants” (Síntesis ecoamigables de colorantes) is open access and can be downloaded here. [Read more]

Elias presented at poster at the Infineon Campeon Innovation Week 2018 in Munich. His poster was entitled: “High-Performance Polyimides for Microelectronics”. [Read more]

Tonight, the Vienna lecture (Wiener Vorlesung) on “Curiosity in Science” took place. Together with Helga Nowotny, Elisabeth Oberzaucher, and Michael Eichmair, Miriam participated as one of the panelists. [Read more]

We attended the Polycondensation 2018 conference, held in Alexandria, VA, and hosted by the American Chemical Society (ACS). Alonso, Lukas, and Patrick presented their posters entitled “Fluorescent Polyimide Films from Aqueous Monomer Salt Solutions” (Alonso), “Green Synthesis and Characterization of Polyimides Derived from Extensively Fused Aromatic Monomers” (Lukas), and “Polyimide Networks by Hydrothermal Polymerization” (Patrick), and Miriam gave an invited keynote lecture on “Condensation polymers by hydrothermal polymerization“. [Read more]

We congratulate  Michael J. Taublaender on winning a poster prize at the Japan Polyimide Conference 2018 in Tokyo – well done Michael! [Read more]