We are glad that Michael Taubländer joined our team as MSc student and wish him all the best for his project. Michael’s thesis will deal with non-classical synthesis of high-performance polymers. Welcome Michael! [Read more]

Miriam is attending the 2016 Polymer Physics Gordon Research Conference at Mount Holyoke College, MA, and presenting our work on crystalline polymers in the form of a poster entitled “Crystalline Polyimides by Non-classical Polymerization Techniques”. Looking forward to a great meeting! [Read more]

Our proposal for a TU Wien Doctoral School “BIOINTERFACE”  has been accepted and a call for applications for 10 PhD positions will be opened in due course! BIOINTERFACE explores the interface between inorganic and bioorganic systems, and is coordinated by, Gerhard Schütz, Gerhard Kahl and Miriam. Link to the press release by TU Wien (in German only). [Read more]

We attend the “STEPI 10 – Polyimides and High-performance Polymers” taking place from June 6^th-9^th in Montpellier, France: Alonso, Bettina, and Lukas will present their research work in the form of poster presentations, and Miriam is giving an invited lecture on “Non-classical approaches towards polyimides: Hydrothermal polymerization and solid-state polycondensation”. [Read more]

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]