Miriam has been nominated one of six finalists for the “Innovator of the year 2014” award by future zone  We are honored by the nomination for our work on hydrothermal polymerizations! [Read more]

Evgeniya Khaybulkina joined the team as a research intern. Her project deals with the synthesis and analysis of emulsions. We are glad to have Evgeniya with us and wish her a lot of success for her research! [Read more]

Miriam will be attending the Polydays 2014 (conference topic: “Beyond Self-Assembly – Making Polymeric Materials More Versatile”) held in Berlin, Germany, from Sept 30^th to Oct 2^nd. Miriam will give her talk “Monomer Pre-Organization in Salt Crystals and Their Solid-State Polymerizations to Anisotropic Homopolymer Particles” on Oct 1^st. [Read more]

Sebastian has successfully applied for participation in the 18^th Jülich Center for Neutron Scattering (JCNS) Lab course taking place from Sept 1^st-12^th in Jülich and Garching. We wish him a great workshop! [Read more]

Catarina and Miriam will be attending the 5^th EuCheMS Chemistry Congress in Istanbul next week. Our group’s research will be presented in the form of two posters and a talk. We are looking forward to a great conference! [Read more]

Bettina has been awarded the excellence fellowship of the faculty of Technical Chemistry of TU Wien, for her MSc research on hydrothermal polymerization. She and Elisabeth Kolar of Karin Föttinger’s group were the only awardees this year. We are very proud that both prizes go to the Institute of Materials Chemistry. [Read more]

Bettina and Miriam will be attending the Polymer Physics GRC in Massachusetts this week. Bettina will present a poster on our research on hydrothermal polymerizations, and Miriam will present the groups’ current results in solid-state polymerizations. We are looking forward to a great conference! [Read more]

Sebastian España Orozco joined the team for his MSc thesis. His project focuses on mechanistic aspects of solid-state polymerizations, and will be co-supervised by Peter Blaha, Dept. of Theoretical Chemistry, TU Vienna. We are glad to have Sebastian and wish him a lot of success for his research! [Read more]

Our recent article “Geomimetics for Green Polymer Synthesis: Highly Ordered Polyimides via Hydrothermal Techniques” is featured on the cover of the current issue of Polymer Chemistry! The article summarizes Bettina’s results on outstandingly crystalline polyimides synthesized under hydrothermal conditions. [Read more]

Our research on hydrothermal polymerization has been highlighted by an article in the Austrian daily newspaper Der Standard. The article “Der Kunststofftrick mit dem Druckkochtopf” (engl. “The plastics-trick with the pressure cooker”) can be found here. [Read more]