Sustainable Advanced Materials
Gerald Singer’s paper “Processing of Carbon Nanotubes and Carbon Nanofibers towards High Performance Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymers” just appeared in Key Engineering Matererials. The work results from our project Turbocomp (“Nanostructured Composites for Structural Applications in Aviation”) lead by Helga Lichtenegger and funded by the FFG. Congratulations to all co-authors! [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 4th, Miriam participated in the 22nd 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]
Michael Taubländer wins the “best presenter award” at the Vienna young scientist symposium (VSS) 2017. Congratulations from the whole team!
Picture: Snapshot of Michael’s talk at the VSS. [Read more]
We are very happy that Michael Hahn joined our team for his BSc thesis. We wish you all the best of luck with your project! [Read more]
Miriam’s review article “Geomimetics and Extreme Biomimetics Inspired by Hydrothermal Systems – What Can We Learn from Nature for Materials Synthesis” has been accepted for publication in Biomimetics! [Read more]
We are glad that Tobia Cavalli re-joined our team as project assistant and wish him all the best for his project. Tobias’s project is carried out in the framework of the project “High-performance membranes”, funded by the aws (Austria Wirtschaftsservice – Federal Ministry of Science Research and Economy). Welcome back Tobia! [Read more]
Miriam gave her first habilitation talk today and is indebted to the Faculty of Technical Chemistry at TU Wien, all cooperation partners, the funding agencies that support our research and – most importantly – her great and hardworking coworkers. Thank you! [Read more]