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]

The 10^th 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]

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]

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]

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]

Miriam participated in the “Speed dating with Scientists” event within the FIT Days in Vienna. This program sponsored by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT). The review of this event is now online: Read it here. [Read more]

Our work on the hydrothermal synthesis of perylene bisimide fluorescence dyes has been featured in a press release by TU Wien.

Picture: Fabian (left) and Max (right) demonstrate the fluorescence of a perylene bisimide solution. [Read more]

Miriam receives an aws (Austria Wirtschaftsservice | Federal Ministry of Science Research and Economy) PRIZE grant for the project “Aqueous Polyimide Processing”. Press releases by the Austrian Press Agency and TU Wien can be read here: APA press release & TU Wien press release. Moreover, Miriam acts as work package leader in the aws project “Fluidized bed heat-exchanger” (PI Markus Haider; Institut of Energy Systems and Thermodynamics, TU Wien). [Read more]