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| 15. May 2012 | New FWF Project granted |
| The Executive Board of FWF has granted a 3-year project of Prof. Günther Rupprechter (Co-Applicants Dr. Karin Föttinger und Dr. Christian Weilach) entitled "Dry Reforming - from elementary steps to better catalysts". The Project is a collaborative effort (ERA Chemistry Program) with TU München (Prof. Johannes A. Lercher) and the Institute of Isotopes of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Prof. László Guczi). | |
| 19. April 2012 | Prof. Rupprechter new member of ÖAW |
| Prof. Günther Rupprechter was elected as a corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). | |
| 12. April 2012 | "Several research groups at the Vienna University of Technology jointly search for juvenescence - not for people but for recycled asphalt pavements (RAP) |
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A team of materials scientists (Institute of Transportation - IVW, Prof. Dr. Blab and Dr. Hofko), chemists (Institute of Materials Chemistry - IMC, Prof. Grothe) and mechanics (Institute for Mechanics of Materials and Structures - IMWS, Dr. Füssl) will deal in the next two and a half years intensively with the reasons for the bitumen aging. "OEKOPHALT" is a project that is financed by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG-Bridge) and three partners in the construction industry (Swietelsky, Pittel+Brausewetter, Nievelt Labor). It will span a wide arc from chemical and physical principles to applied materials testing and to computer-aided modeling of material behavior. For details see: http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/7492/ | |
| 6. February 2012 | "Hot Article" by Marie-Curie Fellow Noelia Barrabes |
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The RSC Journal "Catalysis Science & Technology" has selected Noelia´s Article on catalytic nitrate reduction as a Hot Article. Excess nitrates in water can cause serious side-effects in humans and legislation dictates low levels of NO3, NO2 and NH4 in agricultural waste water, providing an important challenge for catalysis. The Hot Article from Jacinto Sa and Noelia Barrabes et al. investigates nitrate reduction using the bimetallic catalysts Pt-Cu and Pd-Cu. The team were able to use in situ high-energy resolution fluorescence detection (HERFD) X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) to study the oxidation state of copper, which is in a redox cycle with hydrogen and the unwanted nitrates. The oxidation state of copper in bimetallic (Pt-Cu, Pd-Cu) catalysts during water denitration Jacinto Sá, Noelia Barrabés, Evgeny Kleymenov, Chen Lin, Karin Föttinger, Olga V. Safonova, Jakub Szlachetko, Jeroen A. van Bokhoven, Maarten Nachtegaal, Atsushi Urakawa, Gastón A. Crespo and Günther Rupprechter Catal. Sci. Technol., 2012, Advance Article DOI: 10.1039/C2CY00461E For details see: http://blogs.rsc.org/cy/2012/01/27/hot-article-catalytic-clean-up/ | |
| 5.-6. Dezember 2011 | Symposium ILMAT "Ionic liquids derived materials" |
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The past 10 years have seen the development of new exciting hybrid materials based on ionic liquid-like units, among others imidazolium or quaternary ammonium units. The strong and / or complex interactions of these ionic salts with inorganic species, matrices or precursors lead to the development of original materials. In this frame, not only the syntheses pathways have to be adapted but also a methodology has to be developed in order to properly characterize the newly synthesized materials, as well as theoretical calculations and modelling strategies. Associating these various sides of materials chemistry, the development of new hybrid materials for highly challenging and urging applications like dye-sensitized solar cells, fuel cells, gas sequestration or catalysis is expected. This two days symposium entitled "Ionic liquids derived materials" aims at bringing together the various actors of this development and help to make this emerging community identified in the materials chemistry landscape. | |
| 2. Dezember 2011 | Habilitation Dr. Marie-Alexandra Néouze |
| The Habilitation procedure of Marie-Alexandra Néouze was successfully concluded. Dr. Néouze thus obtained the permission to teach Materials Chemistry at Vienna University of Technology. The parallel French Habilitation at the University of Paris took place on Dec. 9. | |
| 21. November 2011 | First "true" Master Thesis completed at the IMC |
| As very first regular student of the new master curriculum (installed in WS 2006/07) Mrs. Astrid Kitla has successfully completed her master studies on November 21st, including an Erasmus stay in Spain (in La Rioja). Ms Kitla has performed her master thesis under supervision of Dr. Föttinger and Prof. Rupprechter on "In situ spectroscopy of copper and nickel promoted zirconia based mixed oxides". She will continue with her PhD at the IMC within the FWF SFB FOXSI and the recently started TU-Doctorate School CatMat. | |
| 28. October 2011 | Award for the Diploma Thesis of Matthias Czakler |
| The diploma thesis of Dipl.Ing. Matthias Czakler "Connected metal nanoparticles for new hybrid materials", performed under the supervision of Dr. Marie-Alexandra Néouze, was honored with one of the awards for the best diploma theses of the City of Vienna. Rector Prof. Sabine Seidler and Senator Prof. Hubert Christian Ehalt presented the award in a ceremony on Oct. 28. | |
| 27. September 2011 | GÖCh Awards for Members of the Institute |
| At the 14th Austrian Chemistry Days in Linz Christine Artner received one of the GÖCh awards for the best Diploma theses. The work entitled "New lead-tellurium oxo compounds: Structure determination and thermal behaviour" was performed under the supervision of Prof. Matthias Weil at the Institut of Chemical Technologies and Analytics. At the same meeting, Christian Weilach won one of the poster awards for his contribution "Synthesis and characterization of bimetallic Pd-Ag catalysts". | |
| 26. September 2011 | GOECH Minisymposium Catalysis and Surface Chemistry |
| The already traditional Minisymposium on Catalysis and Surface Chemistry was held on September 26 within the Austrian Chemistry Days in Linz. An interesting program with 10 talks mostly given by early stage researchers from Vienna, Graz, Zürich and Innsbruck illustrated beautifully the broadness of the field with contributions covering chemical engineering, in situ spectroscopy and surface science as well as biocatalysis. | |
| 20. September 2011 | Postdoctoral Scholarship for Van An Du |
| A postdoctoral fellowship of the German Science Foundation (DFG) was awarded to Dr. Van An Du for a stay in the group of Prof. Ian Manners at the University of Bristol. She will work on a project entitled "Metallopolymers for Conductors, Sensors and Nanocomposites" | |
| 1. Juli 2011 | Christine Artner was elected to the students' representative body of doctorate students |
| In May 2011 Christine Artner was elected to the students' body of the Vienna University of Technology. In the next two years she will, together with her team, represent the interests of all doctorate students at our university. | |
| 31. May 2011 | TU Doctorate School CatMat installed |
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To promote young scientist, Vienna University of Technology has installed the new Doctorate School "Catalysis Materials
and Technology" for the next three years (coordinator Prof. Günther Rupprechter). Ten PhD positions have been granted, intending to stimulate intense interactions between the participating research groups via coordinated PhD theses, joint seminars and workshops. The new Doctorate School brings together surface chemistry and surface physics, synthetic and bio(organic) chemistry, chemical and biochemical engineering, and theory. On the long run this should lead to new and highly selective catalysts. See also : http://catmat.tuwien.ac.at/ | |
| 26. May 2011 | Re-Election of Prof. Schubert as a member of the Executive Committee of the FWF |
| Prof. Ulrich Schubert was elected for a third term as an Executive Committee member of the Austrian Science Funds (FWF), with responsibility for Inorganic Chemistry. | |
| 31. March 2011 | Think Tank of Young Researchers |
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As a tool to promote young scientists and their innovative ideas within COST Action CM0904 "Network for intermetallic compounds as catalysts for steam reforming of methanol (IMC-SRM)", the Institute of Materials Chemistry hosts the Workshop "Think Tank of Young Researchers" (Organization: Dr. Karin Föttinger (IMC) and Dr. Marc Armbrüster (MPI Dresden)). A number of hand-picked young scientists discusses new strategies in the synthesis and application on methanol steam reforming catalysts to generate clean hydrogen. See also : http://www.methanol-to-hydrogen.eu/ | |
| 15. March 2011 | Project-start of SFB "Functional Oxide Surfaces and Interfaces" (FOXSI) |
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Ten research groups have joined within the "Spezialforschungsbereich" (SFB) FOXSI. In this SFB, the IMC is strongly
represented by the groups of Prof. Rupprechter, Prof. Schubert and Prof. Suchorski. FOXSI is dedicated to the investigation
and molecular understanding of chemical processes occurring at oxide surfaces and interfaces, such as (yttrium stabilized)
zirconia, utilized e.g. as electrolyte material in solid oxide fuel cells. The project is granted by the FWF for four years and funded by 4 million Euro (including a contribution by TU Vienna). Besides research, a focus of the SFB is to advance and promote qualified young researchers. At IMC these are Karin Föttinger, Marie-Alexandra Neouze, Sven Barth and Christian Weilach. See also: http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/6883/ and http://foxsi.tuwien.ac.at | |
| 11. January 2011 | Carbonic acid: now isolated in the gas phase |
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A team led by Hinrich Grothe at the TU Vienna and Thomas Loerting at the University of Innsburck has now finally found proof for carbonic acid in the gas phase. Two monomers and a cyclic dimere have been distinguished by FTIR spectroscopy. The results are reported in the journal Angewandte Chemie International Edition and also illustrate its cover. As a highlight the famous Science Magazine has published in the Editor′s Choice a notice about the discovery of carbonic acid. See also news of the TU Vienna: http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/6790/ | |
| 10. January 2011 | Particulate matter emission: cooperation with two Viennese Secondary Schools |
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In the framework of a "Sparkling Science" project two instituts of the Vienna University of Technology (Institute of Chemical Technology and Analytics (Prof. Anne Kasper-Giebl) and Institute of Materials Chemistry (Prof. Hinrich Grothe)) cooperate with two Viennese Secondary Schools (HTL and Gymnasium). The scientist Dr. Nicole Jankowski supports the young scholars by collecting data about particulate matter emissions using portable analysers which are evaluated in cooperation with the experienced scientists. See also http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/6787/ | |
| 10. January 2011 | Appointment of Prof. Schubert as a member of the CDG senate |
| Prof. Ulrich Schubert was appointed as a senate member of the Christian Doppler Research Society for another term. | |
| 4. Jänner 2011 | Honorary membership of the Israel Chemical Society for Prof. Schubert |
| On the occasion of the opening ceremony for the International Year of Chemistry 2011 in the Knesset, the Israel Chemical Society awarded the honorary membership to Prof. Schubert. | |
| 4. November 2010 | Two Institute Members awarded |
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Dr. Robert Lichtenberger and Dr. Christian Weilach were honored by the Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCh) for their work on materials syntheses and surface science. The GÖCh annualy awards the best PhD theses. Two of the three awards of the year 2010 were thus won by researchers of the Institute of Materials Chemistry. See also http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/6697/ | |
| 22. October 2010 | Grant for innovative project / staff |
| Following recommendations of an international peer-review the project "New strategies for heterogenization of Wacker type alkene oxidation catalysts" headed by Dr. Karin Föttinger will be funded with a grant for innovative project / staff. The project is a collaboration with Prof. Alois Lugstein, Institute of Solid State Electronics, and aims at the development of chloride-free "green" catalysts for the Wacker reaction (selective oxidation of alkenes to aldehydes and ketones) based on new materials such as oxide nanowires and nanotubes. | |
| 15. October 2010 | Cover Image for PEEM Microscopy |
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For its October Cover, the Journal ChemPhysChem has selected the visualization of local reaction kinetics by photoemission electron microscopy (PEEM). The intensity analysis of video-PEEM images provides, for the first time, locally resolved kinetics of CO oxidation on individual microscopic grains (10-50 micrometre) of a polycrystalline Pt foil in comparison to the global kinetics determined simultaneously by mass spectroscopy. For details see: Yuri Suchorski, Christian Spiel, Diana Vogel, Wolfgang Drachsel, Robert Schlögl, and Günther Rupprechter ChemPhysChem 11 (2010) 3231. | |
| 14. October 2010 | Prof. Schubert Elected President of EuCheMS |
| The General Assembly of the European Association for Chemical and Molecular Sciences (EuCheMS) elected Prof. Schubert as president for the term Oktober 2011 to September 2014. As President Elect he became member of the Executive Board of EuCheMS (see also http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/6668/). | |
| 28. September 2010 | New FWF grant |
| The executive panel of FWF awarded in his September meeting a research grant for 3 years to Prof. Ulrich Schubert on "Anisotropic Functionalization of Clusters" | |
| 1. September 2010 | Poster and Oral Presentation Awards for Institute Member |
| Andreas Haghofer received two conference awards for his contributions entitled "Formation and Stability of the Selective Intermetallic Compound on Pd/Ga2O3 Methanol Steam Reforming Catalysts". The award for best poster presentation at the "10th International Pannonian Symposium on Catalysis" and the award for best student oral presentation at the "6th EFCATS Summer School" of the European Federation of Catalysis Societies. | |
| 11. June 2010 | Innovative Project granted |
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Among the Innovative Projects 2010, the project "Spectromicroscopy of Surfaces by Metastable He atoms (He-SMS)", coordinated by Assoc. Prof. Yuri Suchorski, has been evaluated as highest ranking project of all TU Vienna submissions. The innovation project He-SMS aims at the development and application of laterally-resolved valence band spectroscopy, based on the excitation of surface electrons using metastable He* atoms. The project is a cooperation with Dr. Michael Stöger-Pollach, Ass. Prof. Johannes Bernardi (both USTEM), and a.o. Prof. Jürgen Smoliner (ETIT). | |
| 18. May 2010 | Prof. Schubert appointed to the Scientific Committee of the German Excellence Initiative |
| The Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG) has appointed Prof. Schubert to the Scientific Committee of the German Excellence Initiative. The Scientific Committee, after evaluation by international experts, gives recommendations about the proposals. Members of the Scientific Committee are also scientific members of the Panel that eventually decides about funding. | |
| 5. May 2010 | New FWF grant |
| The executive panel of FWF awarded in his May meeting a research grant for 3 years to Prof. Ulrich Schubert, entitled "Sol-Gel Processing of Pre-organized Metal Alkoxide Precursors" | |
| 4. May 2010 | Catalysis - more than skin deep |
| Researchers at the Institute of Materials Chemistry (Surface Chemistry and Catalysis), together with collaboration partners at the University Innsbruck and the Fritz Haber Institute (Berlin), have developed a highly selective catalyst for hydrogen generation, based on PdZn alloys. Important structure-selectivity relationships have been elucidated. See Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 49 (2010) 3224 and http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/6428/ | |
| 15. March 2010 | Jasmin Geserick was awarded a Postdoctoral Scholarship of DFG |
| The German Science Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) has awarded a postdoctoral research fellowship to Dipl. Chem. Dr. Jasmin Geserick. Dr. Geserick studied chemistry at the University of Ulm, Germany, and did her PhD thesis under the supervision of Prof. N. Hüsing. She will investigate the controlled arrangement of clusters in mesoporous materials during her 18 month scholarship at the Institute of Materials Chemistry in Vienna. | |
| 1. February 2010 | Start of Marie Curie Project on Environmental Catalysis |
| Within the FP7 Marie Curie Project "ENVIROCATHYDRO- Application of in situ techniques to environmental catalytic processes" Dr. Noelia Barrabés Rabanal will investigate the catalytic removal of chlorine-containing hydrocarbons and nitrates. The project is supervised by Prof. Günther Rupprechter und Dr. Karin Föttinger and focuses on in situ spectroscopy of active, typically bimetallic, catalysts by SFG laser spectroscopy and ATR. | |
| 1. January 2010 | Prof. Rupprechter new head of the institute |
| Prof. Rupprechter was appointed head of the institute after the resignation of Prof. Schubert in this function. | |
| 4. November 2009 | Andreas Haghofer receives GÖCH Award for Diploma Thesis on "Catalytic Nanowires" |
| DI Andreas HAGHOFER received an Award of the Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCH) for his Diploma thesis "Comparison of Colloidally Prepared Pt Nanowires with Conventional Catalysts: Adsorption and Reaction properties". The study was supervised by Prof. Rupprechter and Dr. Föttinger and was carried out in collaboration with the University of Bremen. The four other awards went to TU Graz, the MedUni Innsbruck and (twice) to the University of Vienna. | |
| 21. October 2009 | First Bachelor Thesis at IMC completed |
| The first Bachelor Thesis, performed at the Institute of Materials Chemistry, was successfully completed by Mrs. Astrid Kitla in October. Mrs. Kitla studied the "Temperature-programmed desorption on PdZn/Pd(111) surface alloys". Three more bachelor thesis projects are close to completion. | |
| 25. August 2009 | Poster Awards for PhD Students of the Institut at the 13th Austrian Chemistry Days 2009 |
| The contributions "Anisotropic surface modification of photocatalytically active titania nanoparticles" of Angelika Bachinger and "Synthesis of transition metal silyl complexes and application for transition metal silicide nanoparticles" of Van An Du won two of the six best poster adwards at the 13th Austrian Chemistry Days. | |
| 7. July 2009 | Prof. Schubert wins Wacker Silicone Award |
| In a ceremony in the headquarter of Wacker AG in Munich, the Wacker Silicone Award 2009 was given to Prof. Schubert to honor his scientific achievements in the area of organosilicon compounds. | |
| 29. June 2009 | Marie-Alexandra Néouze und Christian Maurer participate at the Nobel Laureat Conference |
| Marie-Alexandra Néouze und Christian Maurer were selected by the Organization Committee to represent Austria at the 2009 Conference of the Nobel Prize Winners in Chemistry in Lindau (29.6.-3.7.) | |
| 15. May 2009 | Oliver Diwald and Guido Kickelbick were appointed to professorships in Germany |
| A.o. Univ. Prof. Oliver Diwald and a.o.Univ.Prof. Guido Kickelbick were appointed to professorships in Germany and will leave the institut on June 1,2009. Prof. Diwald will be Professor of Particle Synthesis at the Institute of Particle Technology of the University of Erlangen. Prof. Kickelbick was appointed to the Chair of Inorganic Solid State Chemistry at Saarland University. In the presence of many colleagues, present and former coworkers and collaborators, Vice Rector Prof. Sabine Seidler, Dean Prof. Johannes Fröhlich and Head of the Institute Prof. Ulrich Schubert congratulated both professors to their new positions and thanked them for their exemplary and outstanding accomplishements in research, teaching and academic administration for many years. | |
| 5. May 2009 | Grant for Innovative Project |
| Following Peer Reviewing of the Innovative Projects 2009, TU Vienna awarded one grant to the project "Advanced Femtosecond-Pulse-Induced Dynamics of Surface Adsorbates and Gas Molecules (FISAM)". The project, lead by the Dr. Markus Kitzler (Institute of Photonics) and including research groups at the Institute of Materials Chemistry (Professor. G. Rupprechter) and Applied Physics (Professor P. Varga), examines ultrafast processes on surfaces and in the gas phase exploring a new lightweight diode-pumped femtosecond-laser. | |
| 13. November 2008 | Marie-Alexandra Néouze received the Anton-Paar Science Award |
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Marie-Alexandra Néouze received the Anton-Paar Science Award 2008 of the Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCH) for her publication "Nanoparticles connected through an ionic liquid-like network" in Journal of Materials Chemistry (18 (2008), p. 640 - 646 ). In this publication an original new method to connect silica nanoparticles through cationic organic bridges is described. Detailed informations at: http://www.tuwien.ac.at/aktuelles/news_detail/article/5340/ | |
| 26. October 2008 | IMC particular project "Sparkling" ist quest in ministry |
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The program "Sparkling Science" aims the involvement of adolescent persons to high-grade research at the university. Within the open day of the Ministry of Science and Research on the 26th of October 2008 three sparkling science projects were presented. One of these projects was the "green" project of Juliane Kampichler (a student from secondary school Sachsenbrunn) about "Bimetallic catalysts for hydrodechlorisation" which was proceeded at the institute for materials chemistry and supervised by Dr. Karin Föttinger. Detailed informations at: http://www.bmwf.gv.at/submenue/neuigkeiten/tag_der_offenen_tuer_2008/ http://www.chemie.tuwien.ac.at/sparklingscience/ | |
| 20. October 2008 | Two new FWF grants |
| In the last meeting of the FWF Executive Committee, a 3-year grant was awarded to the project "Nanoparticles connected through an ionic liquid-like network" (Project leader: Dr. Marie-Alexandra Neouze). Also funded will be the proposal of Dr. Hongzhi Liu for a Lise-Meitner sholarship. Dr. Liu will work in the Schubert group on "Hybrid materials based on a novel polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane". | |
| 9. September 2008 | Re-Appointment of Prof. Schubert as a member of the Executive Committee of the FWF |
| Prof. Ulrich Schubert was elected for a second term as an Executive Committee member of the Austrian Science Funds (FWF), with responsibility for Inorganic Chemistry. | |
| 30. May 2008 | Grant for innovative project |
| Following recommendations of an international peer-review of "Innovative Projects 2008, Vienna University of Technology is funding a reseach initiative on "Interface-specific Vibrational Laser Spectroscopy by Sum Frequency Generation". The project, headed by Prof. Rupprechter and in collaboration with research groups in physics and electronics, aims at installing a sum frequency generation laser spectrometer for surface-specific and time-resolved vibrational spectroscopy. | |
| 13. May 2008 | Participation in the Postgraduate School "Functional Matter" |
| The rector of Vienna University of Technology has established an inter-departmental doctorate school on "Functional Matter". Prof. Rupprechter and Prof. Schubert belong to the ten faculty members. The school will start its activities with the winter semester 2008/09. | |
| 3. May 2008 | At the Bunsentagung 2008 poster of institute members awarded |
| The contribution "Carbonate formation on Pd-alumina catalysts: exploring the mechanism by isotope studies" by Karin Föttinger, Katrin Zorn, Robert Schlögl and Günther Rupprechter was awarded as one of seven "PCCP Hot Topic Posters" at the Bunsentagung 2008 in Saarbrücken, Germany. | |
| 24. April 2008 | Science-paper about "Dipole Rings on Nano Structures" |
| Peter Blaha and Robert Laskowski became co-authors of a new science paper about "Surface Trapping of Atoms and Molecules with Dipole Rings". | |
| 7. February 2008 | Interdisciplinary Project started in the Synthesis and Characterization of Chemically Designed Nanocomposites |
| Many properties of nanocomposites are based on molecular phenomena at the interface between the inorganic particles and the polymer matrix. In a FWF funded project the research groups of Guido Kickelbick, Sabine Seidler (Institute of Materials Science and Technology, Vienna University of Technology) and Herwig Peterlik (Institute of Materials Physics, University Vienna) will investigate the influence of molecular changes at the interface between nano building blocks and the polymer matrix on the macroscopic properties of the nanocomposites. | |
| 1. February 2008 | Appointment of Prof. Schubert as a member of the CDG senate |
| Prof. Ulrich Schubert was appointed as a senate member of the Christian Doppler Research Society for another term. | |
| 11. December 2007 | New FFG BRIDGE Project investigates the in situ Preparation of Polyester-Nanocomposites |
| The preparation of novel nanocomposites are the topic of a FFG financed BRIDGE project in the research group of Guido Kickelbick. The commonly applied industrial preparation of nanocomposites is based on mechanical and/or thermal mixing of nanoparticles with preformed polymers. One of the major problems in this process represents the inhomogeneous distribution of the nanoparticles in the polymer matrix, which can lead to agglomeration of the particles and thus undesired influences on the properties of the final nanocomposites. The project investigated new processes for the in situ preparation of nanoparticles via the sol-gel process. | |
| 30. October 2007 | Member of the Institut of Materials Chemistry got an Environmental Protection-Award. |
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| 10. October 2007 | Gerhard Ertl wins Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his studies of surface chemistry on solid catalysts |
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| 5. October 2007 | Research Group of Guido Kickelbick investigates novel nanoparticles for self-cleaning surfaces within a project funded by the Austrian Nanoinitiative |
| The development of a new generation of self-cleaning nanocoatings which is named after Janus, the Roman godness with the two faces, will be the focus of the research project PHONAS (www.phonas.at) for the next four years. The project is funded by the Austrian Nanoinitiative (www.nanoinitiative.at). The research group of Guido Kickelbick investigates within this project the synthesis of nanoparticles that contain two different sites. One of them should show the self-cleaning activity, the other permits the stable attachment to a polymer coating. Water and sunlight will be used as sources to activate the self-cleaning processes. Results obtained from the fundamental research will be transferred to the industry within the project that is managed by the ARC Seibersdorf. | |
| 11. September 2007 | Diploma students of the Institute get awards |
| Two of the five awards of the Austrian Chemical Society (GÖCh) for the best diploma theses of the year 2006 were awarded to coworkers of the Institute of Materials Chemistry. Stefan Baumann (supervised by Univ.Prof. Dr. Nicola Hüsing, now Univ. Ulm) gets the award for this work on "Preparation and analysis of mesoporous titania as monoliths or poweders", and Johannes Ofner (supervided by ao.Univ.Prof. Hinrich Grothe) for his work on "Mechanisms of heterogeneous reactions at soot surfaces". | |
| 7. September 2007 | Guido Kickelbick was elected as a new board member of the International Sol-Gel Society |
| The XVI. international Sol-Gel Conference which took place in Montpellier (France) from September 2.-7. 2007 was the location where Guido Kickelbick was elected as a board member of the International Sol-Gel Society (ISGS, www.isgs.org). He will be the secretary of this organization for the next 6 years. The ISGS is a society with several hundred members which promotes the sol-gel method in the scientific and industrial community. Focus of the society is the organization of meetings and the education and training in the field of sol-gel chemistry. Furthermore ISGS is the publisher of the international renowned scientific journal "Journal of Sol-Gel Science and Technology". | |
| 20. June 2007 | Guido Kickelbick was awarded the "New Journal of Chemistry - Invited Lecturer" at the Sol-Gel Meeting in Montpellier 2.-7-. September 2007 |
| Guido Kickelbick is awarded with the first New Journal of Chemistry - Invited Lecturer award together with the international well-known macromolecular chemist Prof. Virgil Percec (University of Pennsylvania, USA). Here an excerpt from the notification letter of Dr. Denise Parent the editor of the journal: "First of all I want to thank you for accepting our invitation to speak at the Sol-Gel conference in Montpellier as the NJC Invited Speaker. We′re very pleased that you will be representing the image of the journal: young, dynamic and working in one of the newer areas of chemistry." | |
| 29. Mai 2007 | Silver honorary medal for achievements for the city of Vienna awarded to Univ.Prof.i.R.Dr.phil. Karlheinz Schwarz |
| City councillor Dr. Mailath-Pokorny awards Univ.Prof.i.R. Karlheinz Schwarz with the silver honorary medal for achievements for the city of Vienna. | |
| 6. March 2007 | Members of the Institute was awarded a Erwin-Schrödinger-Scholarship |
| Dr. Ralf Supplit has been awarded a Erwin-Schrödinger-Scholarship from the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF, Austrian Science Foundation). He will stay one year in the group of Prof. Tatsuya Okubo at the University of Tokyo. His research topic will be "Proton-conducting sol-gel materials". | |
| 2. January 2007 | Guido Kickelbick is Editor of a new Book on the Topic of Hybrid Materials |
| Hybrid materials and nanocomposites are hot topics in modern materials chemistry. Unique properties are obtained by merging inorganic and organic components in one material. A new book with the title "Hybrid Materials - Synthesis, Characterization and Applications", edited by Prof. Guido Kickelbick explains the chemical and physical background of these materials. International experts in the topic of hybrid materials and nanocomposites contributed to this book and make available their knowledge on a level which is suited especially for newcomers as well as advanced students and PhD students. Further information can be found on the homepage of Wiley-VCH. | |
| 14. August 2006 | 1000th Licenses for Wien2k |
| The software Wien2k was developed by a research group around Prof. Karlheinz Schwarz and Prof. Peter Blaha to calculate the electronic structure of crystals applying the density functional theory. It is used worldwide in materials research. Users of Wien2k are companies, such as Canon, Motorola, Osram, Samsung, Siemens, Sony, Toyota, … - as well as universities like the MIT, the ETH Zürich, Harvard, Princeton, Oxford, Beijing, Max-Planck Institutes and many more. Recently the th licence was issued to the TU Munich. | |
| 27. June 2006 | New FWF grant |
| In the last meeting of the FWF Executive Committee before the summer break, a 3-year grant was awarded to the project "Polymers from functional clusters" (Project leader: Prof. Ulrich Schubert). Metal oxide and metal sulfide clusters with special optical or magnetic properties will be synthesized and modified with polymerizable ligands. Inorganic-organic hybrid polymers will be obtained by polymerization with organic co-mpnomers, in which the functional clusters are incorporated in the polymer matrix. | |
| 8. June 2006 | Prof. Schubert new Member of the Leopoldina |
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Professor Ulrich Schubert was elected as a new member of the German Academy for Natural Scientists
Leopoldina. The election into this academy is a particular recognition of the scientific achievements
and the personality of its members. The Academy′s chief mission results from the objectives of
promoting natural science and medicine research as well as their science history, economic and social
science and psychological borderline areas in accordance with its founders′ motto of exploring nature
to the benefit of the human being. Further tasks comprise deepening and disseminating insights
in natural science both orally and in writing. The Leopoldina is the oldest continously existing academy of natural sciences and medicin in Germany. It is traditional a dignitaries academy with a few mainly scintific history related research projects. It was founded 1652 in Schweinfurt has its office in Halle/Saale since 1878. Members of the academy are outstanding scientists from all over the world. | |
| 22. May 2006 | Prof. Schwarz was new member of the Royal Swedish Society of Sciences at Uppsala |
| Prof. Karlheinz Schwarz was elected as "Foreign Member" in the class "Physics and mathematics" in the "Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences at Uppsala". This society is the oldest the royal academies in Sweden and was already founded 1710. The election acknowledges Prof. Schwarz′s scientific achievements. | |
| 8. May 2006 | Member of the Institute was again awarded with an Erwin-Schrödinger Stipendium of the FWF |
| Dr. Thomas Berger was awarded an Erwin-Schrödinger-Scholarship from the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF, Austrian Science Foundation) for a one year scientific stay in the Instituto Electroquímica Departemento de Química Física der Universidad de Alicante (Spain). His research topic will be photoinduced processes on TiO2 electrodes. | |
| 14. March 2006 | New homepage was launched |
| Today the new homepage of our institute was launched. It portrays the persons and activities at our institute in a new design and as we hope with high clarity. | |
| 7. March 2006 | Members of the Institute were awarded a Erwin-Schrödinger-Scholarship |
| Dr. Doris Brandhuber and Dr. René Kogler have been awarded a Erwin-Schrödinger-Scholarship for a one year scientific stay abroad from the Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung (FWF, Austrian Science Foundation). Dr. Brandhuber will carry out a project with the title "Gene delivery from biomineralized substrates" at the Yale University in New Haven (USA) in the group of Prof. Dr. W. Mark Saltzman. The title of the project of Dr. Kogler is "Charge Transport in Supramolecular Dendro Assemblies", this project will start at the Cornell University in Ithaca (USA) in the group of Prof. Dr. Ulrich Wiesner. |