The project “Nanostructured Composites for Structural Applications in Aviation (Turbocomp)” in cooperation with BOKU, MedUni Wien and Secar Technologies GmbH is going to be funded by the FFG! [Read more]

The magazine Forschen & Entdecken by the city of Vienna features a lay article on hydrothermal polymerization in its current issue. The article appeared in the category “Science Slam – Viennese young researchers explain their projects” and is directed at a non-specialist audience. Read the article here (in German only). [Read more]

The poster jury at FuNMat 2015 has selected Bettina’s poster “Geomimetic Synthesis of Highly Crystalline Polymers: High-Performance Polyimides by Hydrothermal Polymerization” as best poster contribution and awarded it with the 1st poster prize sponsored by Wiley-VCH. Congratulations to Bettina! The press release can be found here. [Read more]

Martina successfully defended her MSc thesis today. We congratulate Martina and wish her all the best for her future! [Read more]

We are going to participate in the Functional Nanomaterials Symposium – FuNMat 2015 taking place on July 30^th at Charles University in Prague. Bettina, Sebastian and Tobia are presenting posters and Miriam is going to give a talk on hydrothermal polymerization of polyimides. [Read more]

Bettina was selected for participation in the profil HIGH POTENTIAL DAY  taking place on July 1^st in the town hall of the city of Vienna. We congratulate Bettina to this achievement and wish her a great day! [Read more]

Miriam will be attending the 65^th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting taking place from June 28^th to July 3^rd in Lindau, Germany.  This year’s meeting is centered around chemistry, physics and medicine/physiology and will be attended by 65 laureates and over 650 young scientists from over 90 countries. Looking forward to a great week! [Read more]

Several members of our group will present their research projects at the Vienna young Scientist Symposium (VSS) taking place on June 25^th-26^th at TU Wien. Bettina will deliver her talk “Geomimetic polymer synthesis: Highly crystalline polyimides by hydrothermal polymerization”, Catarina will present her poster “Highly controlled magnetic iron oxide nano particle assemblies using tailored precursors”, and Martina will present her poster “Novel ferrocene- containing high-performance polymers”. [Read more]

Miriam will be attending the Precision Polymer Meeting (P²M) taking place from May 26^th to 29^th in Lacanau, France. [Read more]

Polymer Chemistry has named Miriam one of the “Emerging Investigators 2015”. In this context we were invited to contribute a full paper, which appeared online today. We congratulate Bettina et al. to the paper: “Towards a General Understanding of Hydrothermal Polymerization of Polyimides”. [Read more]