Sophia was awarded one of two best presentation awards at FuNMat 2017 in Pilsen. The other prize was awarded to Ivan Ilic from Prof. Arne Thomas group at TU Berlin. Congratulations to both! [Read more]

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]