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]

Miriam answers the question “Why is glas breaking so easily?” asked by a four-year old girl in the Austrian magazine “NEWS”. The short answer can be found here. [Read more]

Miriam will deliver a talk on the 12^th of May at the DVSPM 2015 in Gmunden, Austria. Her talk will be entitled  “Hydrothermal polymerization: towards highly crystalline high- performance polymers”. [Read more]

We are very happy that three students joined our team for their BSc theses. Thomas Roiss (left) will be working on high-performance polymers via  preorganized precursors, and Sophia Steinbacher (middle) and Heribert Gerstner (right) will work on hydrothermal polymerization during their time in the UnterlassLab. We wish you all the best of luck with your projects! [Read more]

In the first issue of the new Austrian magazine 2030 – Das Zukunftsmagazin, Miriam was interviewed as one of 30 young researchers that might shape the Austrian research landscape in 2030. The interview can be found here. [Read more]

The paper “Creating geomimetic polymers” on hydrothermal polymerization just went online in Materials Today – it’s open access, so check it out! [Read more]

Ana Subotic and Tobia Cavalli joined the team. Ana’s internship project will deal with the synthesis of hybrid materials, and Tobia’s MSc project will focus on hydrothermal polymerizations. We are glad to have Ana and Tobia with us and wish them lots of success for their research! [Read more]

2015 marks the 200 year anniversary of TU Vienna. On this special occasion the Austrian radio station Ö1 broadcasted a radio show featuring research carried out at TU Vienna. Among other researchers, Miriam was interviewed and explained our work on hydrothermal polymerization to the general public. The radio show can be found here. [Read more]

In today’s issue, the Austrian magazine profil wissen published an article on creativity and improvisation in research labs. The article focusses on ’self-made’ equipment, and featured Alonso’s injection set-up, together with a description of our research and illustrated with very artistic pictures by photographer Reiner Riedler. The article can be found here (in German only). [Read more]

We are glad to have our friend and collaboration partner Michael J. Bojdys, Assistant Professor at Charles University in Prague, as a guest today. His seminar is entitled “Layered functional materials – extending the ‘grapheme’ family” and will take place in room BA10B, 10^th floor, building BA, campus Getreidemarkt, TU Wien, at 4.30pm. [Read more]