New reactor installed
Our new high-T-high-p reactor was installed today – we are all very excited to start working with the equipment!
Picture: Alonso with the new set-up. [Read more]
MSc graduation: Tobia successfully defends his masters thesis
Tobia has defended his MSc thesis entitled “The effect of pressure on the hydrothermal polymerization of polyimides’’. The whole team congratulates!
Picture: Tobia with his relatore Silvia Gross [Read more]
NEW BSc STUDENT – Welcome Manuel!
We are very happy that Manuel Reiter joined our team for his BSc thesis. We wish you all the best of luck with your project! [Read more]
Kick-off symposium of BIOINTERFACE
Today, the doctoral school BIOINTERFACE was officially inaugurated. We celebrated both BIOINTERFACE and the doctoral school TU-D, which were both granted funding in the end of 2016, by a 1-day symposium at TU Wien. The program included, both presentations and pitch talks by the newly hired PhD students, invited lectures by Bharath Bhushan (Ohio State) and Steven Louie (Berkley), as well as presentations of the two doctoral schools by their coordinators. [Read more]
NEW TEAM MEMBER – we extend a warm welcome to Elias
We are happy that Elias Bumbaris joined our team as project assistant and wish him all the best for his project. Elias’ project deals with green, aqueous polyimide processing, and is funded by the aws (Austria Wirtschaftsservice – Federal Ministry of Science Research and Economy). Welcome Elias! [Read more]
Miriam gives lecture at the 10th NESY winter school
The 10th European NESY Winterschool & Symposium on Neutron and Synchrotron Radiation took place this week in Altaussee – including loads of snow. Miriam gave an invited talk entitled “Highly crystalline polymers by non-classical syntheses”. Glad to have been invited to this great symposium! [Read more]
Michael starts his PhD thesis
We are glad that Michael Taubländer re-joined our team as PhD student and wish him all the best for his project. Michael’s thesis is carried out in the framework of the project “Polyimide Particle-Reinforced High-Performance Composites”, funded by the FWF (Austrian Science Fund) and the CDG (Christian Doppler Research Association). [Read more]
New paper accepted in Journal of Materials Chemistry C!
Florian’s article “Dicyano- and Tetracyanopentacene: Foundation of an Intriguing New Class of Easy-to-Synthesize Organic Semiconductors” (open access) has been accepted by J. Mater. Chem. C. Congratulations to first author Florian and all co-authors! [Read more]
MSc graduation: Michael successfully defends his masters thesis
Today, Michael defended his MSc thesis entitled “Development of Novel Synthetic Routes Towards Polyimides and Poly(perinone)s’’. The whole team congratulates Diplomingenieur Taubländer! [Read more]
Comment on hydrothermal synthesis of perylene bisimides in Die Presse
The Austrian daily newspaper published a small comment on our benign synthesis of perylene bisimide dyes today. Read the comment here (in German only). [Read more]