We are attending the Functional Nanomaterials (FuNMat) symposium 2017 in Pilsen, CZ, with a large number: Sophia, Manuel,  Lukas, Elias, Alonso, Tobia, Michael J. T., Michael H. and Miriam are attending and all going to give talks. Looking forward to a great symposium, meeting old friends and making new ones! [Read more]

The Austrian newspaper Die Presse has published an article about Miriam and our research in the series “Junge Forschung”. Read the article entitled “Sie kocht doch nur mit Wasser” here. [Read more]

Alonso’s poster “Implications of Monomer Salt Structures for Their Solid-State Polycondensation to polyimides” was awarded with one of three poster prizes at DVSPM 2017. The whole team congratulates Alonso to this great success! [Read more]

Several team members will attend and present their work at the Danube Vltava Sava Polymer Meeting (DVSPM 2017) held in Vienna, Austria. Michael is going to give a talk entitled “Influence of solvent composition and additives on polyimide microparticle morphology” and Alonso (Implications of Monomer Salt Structures for Their Solid-State Polycondensation to Polyimides), Manuel (From rigid-rod to hairy rod polyimides) Elias (Novel Monomer Salts and Their Solid-State Polymerization to Polyimides), Tobia (En route to monomer salts of multifunctional amines with pyromellitic acid as polyimide precursors) and Lukas (Green One-Pot Synthesis and Processing of Polyimide-Silica Hybrid Materials) will present their work as posters. [Read more]

Michael’s and Manuel’s full paper “Exerting Additive-Assisted Morphological Control During Hydrothermal Polymerization” has been accepted for publication in Macromolecular Chemistry and Physics! Congratulations to both! [Read more]

Michael Caldera’s beautiful visualization of a co-complex crystal network (a collaboration between the Menche Lab and the Unterlass Lab) won a prize in the art & science competition of this year’s YSA conference. Indeed, the network is beautiful! Congratulations Michael! [Read more]

We are very happy that Sophia Thiele joined our team for her BSc thesis. We wish you all the best of luck with your project! [Read more]

Left picture: Dr. Harald Mahrer (Federal Minister for Science, Research and Economy; left) and Prof. Dr. Klement Tockner (President of the Austrian Science Fund FWF) awarding the START prize to Miriam. Copyright: FWF. Right picture:  The team celebrating at the Wittgenstein & START gala; from left to right: Elias, Lukas, Manuel, Miriam Tobia and Alonso. [Read more]

On May 4^th, Miriam participated in the 22^nd TU Forum entitled “Everything is chemistry (too)”. There, four experts engaged in an active discussion with the interested public (audience of ca. 150 people) on  chemistry in everyday life. Snapshots and a short video are now online at the TU Forum archive. [Read more]