News | Dept. Landfester

This year, the Landfester department once again took part in the MPIP's "Tree of Wishes" campaign. We have bought gifts for five children who live in the institutions of the Juvente Foundation. As these children cannot live with their families for various reasons, we hope to create a magical Christmas for them by fulfilling their Christmas wishes. Thank you to everyone who helped make this possible!

Julian Heuer and Tsvetomir Ivanov, together with Heloisa Bremm Madalosso and Thao Phuong Doan Nguyen, both received a MPIP poster prize for their work on photocatalysis and synthetic cells, respectively.

Tsvetomir Ivanov and Julian Heuer visited our collaboration partner lab of Prof. Dr. Nagila Ricardo at UFC Fortaleza, Brasil. It was a great experience for the two PhD students who also presented their work and gave an overview about our department work at MPIP.

For the second year now we had a great grape harvest - free of ESCA - to produce world famous MPI-P wine again. The weather was fanstatic for the harvet. We are looking forward to a tasty wine.

We went to the Schirn in Frankfurt, the art gallery for current topics and for national and international artists in Germany. "Plastic World" shows a collection of art from several decades. Especially in the 60s/70s, the versatile material influenced many artists. They experimented with PUR foam or epoxy resin. Plastic was as fascinating then as now because it has been either highly formable, transparent or elastic. But it was also used for socio-critical statements: the role of women in society with inflatable Nanas by Niki de Saint Phalle or the beginnings of mobile work with the blow-up office made of transparent PVC foil by Hans Hollein in 1969.
And of course art has always dealt with the opposites of artificiality (Daksh's new favourite word!) and nature: on the one hand, cold, sterile plastic in garish colours, which has just shaped the Pop Art movement, and the destructive force in our environment according to the motto "plastic has come to stay". For example, Otto Piene's walk-in installation with its giant inflatable sea anemones and lobsters shows that plastic is fascinating and omnipresent at the same time, even in the ocean.
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Congratulations to Heloísa Bremm Madalosso for winning the Best Lecture Award at the 14th International Workshop on Polymer Reaction Engineering (September 5-8, 2023 - Potsdam, Germany). Heloísa presented her work entitled "Molecular weight distributions and thermal properties of polyesters synthesized via enzymatic ring-opening copolymerization of macrolactones".

Francesca Mazzotta, our PhD student, is participating at the ECIS 2023 conference in Naples. Here she presented a poster on the work done during her industrial secondment titled: "Dual colour imaging for the detection of polymeric NP composition".

Francesca Mazzotta, working for the SuperCol project, started her industrial secondment at Covestro! For the next 10 weeks she will have the opportunity to see and understand how a company works and give her contribution to their scientific project. We wish her lots of luck!