During the last 3 days, the whole team was communicating with the Viennese public at the Wiener Forschungsfest (Vienna Science Festival). We explained various aspects of color chemistry – ranging from the origin of color to dye synthesis and the use of dyes for cell labelling – illustrated by several hands-on experiments. [Read more]

Miriam successfully defended her habilitation and obtained her venia docendi in materials chemistry.Congratulations from the whole team! [Read more]

On the occasion of the Austrian Science Funds 50th anniversary, the science festival BeOpen is held this week. Today, Miriam participated in two events at BeOpen: the panel discussion on “pioneering spirit”, and the science slam on the theme “failure in science”. Miriam won the science slam – congratulations from the whole team! [Read more]

The magazine Wien Wissen, magazine on science by the city of Vienna, just published a feature on our booth on color chemistry at the upcoming “Wiener Forschungsfest” (Vienna Science Fair), which will be held from September 12-15. We are looking forward to interacting with the public! [Read more]

We are very happy that Hipassia M. Moura (Postdoc) and Olivier Gazil (visiting MSc student) joined our team. Both will be working on hydrothermal synthesis, Hipassia in the framework of our FWF START project “The hydrothermal route to functional covalent organic frameworks”, and Olivier funded by a MITACS Canada fellowship. Welcome to both! [Read more]

This week, Tobia will be attending the European Colloid and Interface Society (ECIS) Meeting in Lljubljana. He will be presenting a poster entitled: “Synthesis of Anisometric Polyhedral Homopolymer Particles”. [Read more]

Miriam participated in this years European Chemistry and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS) conference in Liverpool and gave three talks entitled “Green Synthesis of High-Performance Polymers and Their Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials” (sustainable chemistry session), “Green Hydrothermal Synthesis of N-heterocycle-based materials” (organic chemistry session), and “Hairy-Rod Polyimides from Liquid-Crystalline Monomers” (materials chemistry session). [Read more]

On the occasion of Vienna being named the city with the highest quality of life in the world, the Austrian newspaper Kurier interviewed Miriam regarding the quality of Vienna as workplace for both scientists and entrepreneurs. Read the interview here. [Read more]

The Chemical Engineer, the monthly news magazine by the Institution of Chemical Engineers (IChemE), just published the feature article “`Green` high-tech dye synthesis” on our recent report on the synthesis and crystallization of high-performance dyes in nothing but high-temperature water. Read the article here. [Read more]

Our paper “Green and Rapid Hydrothermal Crystallization and Synthesis of Fully Conjugated Aromatic Compounds” got accepted for publication in Angewandte Chemie and is featured on the inside cover page! Congratulations to first author Michael and all co-authors! Read the press release by TU Wien here. [Read more]