Marta Maria Alves Pereira PhD candidate Ms Marta Maria Alves Pereira has been awarded a scholarship from the CAPES Foundation, an agency under the Ministry of Education of Brazil, to spend one month at the Group of Biointerfaces led by Prof. Dr. Oya Tagit. Marta will develop and characterize…

SCS Chemistry Travel Award Congratulations to Ajmal Roshan on receiving the Chemistry Travel Award 2024 from SCNAT and the Swiss Chemical Society (SCS) to attend the 45th International Conference on Coordination Chemistry (ICCC) at Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA. At the conference, he delivered an insightful talk on…

Polymeric hydrogels represent a fascinating form of materials that are able to bind water in a polymeric matrix. The very fact that water is bound in this form allows the manipulation of water storage and release as well as properties such as viscosity. For polymers with stimuli responsive behaviour, these…

The collective strive towards a more sustainable and circular economy converges academic and industrial efforts on the increased implementation of biobased raw materials to produce items of daily use such as packaging, bags, bottles etc. Among others, the conversion of carbohydrates to 5-HMF an finally to 2,5-FDCA is a promising…

In this Innosuisse funded Project (105.146.1 IP-ENG) we aim to develop robust fluorine free textile coatings for oil and water repellence. Up to date perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) are used for oil, stain and water repellence in the textile and coating industry. Due to environmental and health concerns such compounds will…

In this Innosuisse funded Project (45921.1 IP-ENG) we developed a highly porous graphene based composite membrane for waterproof breathable applications via Chemical Vapor deposition. This breathable membrane was chemically functionalized and developed for textiles and related high end membrane applications. During the project methods for the selective chemical modification of…

Impression of the Gymnasium Laufental-Thierstein visiting the nanoLab.On May 16th 2024, a class from the Regionales Gymnasium Laufental-Thierstein visited us in the nanoLab. After a short introduction about the nanoLab, the students were allowed to actively experience the world of nanometers and produce red gold nanoparticles in the laboratory, observe…

Renzo Raso attended the Itechstyle Summit 2024 in Porto (Portugal) where he was invited to speak in the field of performance materials.The conference is organized by CITEVE and is held annually having more than 500 attendees and over 50 speaksers.CITEVE – Tecnologia Têxtil | We started the afternoon with…

Kavya Pramod We are happy to welcome Kavya Pramod in our research group at FHNW HLS. Kavya started on May 15th in our lab and will focusDuring the next months on the synthesis and modification of highly repellent materials for surface coatings. The efforts to find alternative solutions toCurrently…