The ProDidactica awards honor the best courses in the BSc curriculum “Technical Chemistry” at TU Wien. With the course “Inorganic Chemistry 1”, Miriam was awarded the 2^nd place in both the category “lectures – best presentation” and “lectures – fairest exam”. We are honored, especially since the awards are based on students’ votes! [Read more]

At the “Lange Nacht der Forschung” (“Long Night of Research”) numerous research institutions open their doors to the interested public. We show our work on high-performance polymers and hydrothermal polymerization in an exhibition at the Getreidemarkt campus. The exhibition features several poster, electronic tear-downs showing polyimides in everyday life objects, rocks with hydrothermal veins, our hydrothermal reactors and volcano models. [Read more]

A video summarizing 2016s i2c networking friday at TU Wien is now online. Miriam, who participated in the event and won the INiTS StartUp Camp award also shares her view on the event in the video. [Read more]

Our recent article “Green Synthesis of Inorganic-Organic Hybrid Materials: State of the Art and Future Perspectives” is featured on the cover of the current issue of the European Journal of Inorganic Chemistry! The cover image is accompanied by an author profile, which you may read here. [Read more]

Our recent paper “Design Strategies in hydrothermal polymerization of polyimides” has been featured by a layman summary on materialsviews.com. Read the summary here. [Read more]

Sophia, Bettina and Miriam are attending the Makromolekulares Kolloquium 2016 in Freiburg, Germany. On Friday 26^th, Bettina will be presenting her poster “Highly Crystalline Polyimides by Hydrothermal Polymerization: A Mechanistic Study”. [Read more]

This week, Miriam participated in the i²c (informatics innovation center) StartAcademy, which was really cool, and won the INiTS start-up camp award on friday 19^th (again: really cool!). [Read more]

In January Miriam participated in the YO!TECH Science fair. In 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]

Miriam receives an was (Austria Wirtschaftsservice) PRIZE grant for the project “High-performance membranes”. Press releases by the Austrian Press Agency and TU Wien can be read here: APA press release & TUW press release. [Read more]

How awesome is that: our comic explaining our recent results on the solid-state-polymerization of angular polyimide particles has been selected as background image of the official TU Wien Facebook page! [Read more]