News and additional older informations about the institute

Here you can find:
a) A news list of the latest news
b) Selected older messages about the activities of our institute, which in our opinion are still interesting after a longer period of time.

Latest News
Panoramablick auf eine ländliche Gemeinde mit Weinbergen und Bäumen unter blauem Himmel.Geocaching in the Palatinate

On September 30, following our alumni meeting, we went on this year's group excursion, a geocaching wine tasting tour through the vineyards around Maikammer in the Palatinate.

Impressions from Palatinate
Außenansicht des KIT Instituts für Technische Chemie und Polymerchemie mit Veranstaltungsankündigung.Alumni 2025

The 10th meeting of Alumni, Friends and Cooperationpartner of the group of Prof. Wilhelm  on September, 26th at the ITCP and the MZE was assited by more than 70 people, approximately 50 guests and alumni.

Alumni-Meeting
Ernst-Preis Empfang der Gesellschaft Deutscher Chemiker GDChErnst Prize of the GDCH

The Ernst Prize of the GDCh Magnetic Resonance Section 2025 was awarded on September 15, 2025 and goes to Markus Matz for his publication: "Enhancing sensitivity in the hyphenation of HPLC to benchtop NMR at isocratic and onflow conditions"; M. Matz, M. Pollard, M. Gaborieau, J. Tratz, C. Botha, M. Wilhelm; J. Phys. Chem. B 128 39 9512-9524 (2024); DOI 10.1021/acs.jpcb.4c03509.

Impressions from the Price Award Ceremony
Conference Novel Trends in Rheology X July 2025Poster Price Xiaohe Xu

Congratulations to Xiaohe Xu for his Poster Award at the Conference "Novel Trends in Rheology X", which took place from July 30-31 in the Czech Republic in Zlín.

Short impressions from the conference
Papiermaschine, Papierzentrum GernsbachInstitute seminar

The 8th seminar of the Prof. Wilhelm working group took place from 18-20 September 2024 at the Gernsbach Paper Centre (Black Forest). In the peaceful surroundings on the outskirts of the town, the basics of important methods and theories for the entire working group were discussed, with one aspect also focussing on science in philosophy and epistemology.

Impressions during the seminar
Arbeitsgruppe 2024Image Working group

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DFG FachkollegiumDFG Review Board

Prof Mandfred Wilhelm is involved in science funding: he is a new member of the DFG Review Board 3.16 Polymer Research 3.16-01 Preparative and Physical Chemistry of Polymers.

NMR90+ ProbenwechslerSample changer for medium-field NMR

Yet another addition to our equipment! With the new sample changer, even time-consuming measurements can be carried out conveniently with the Medium-Field-NMR device from Magritek. Examples are 2D-NMR measurements, both in 1H and 13C, which are now possible around the clock.

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 PhD Examination in Amsterdam

Prof. Wilhelm as an Examiner for an Phd "Combined Methods in SEC" at the University of Amsterdam at September 2023, 28th. There a PhD-Exam is really tradition-conscious and solemn!

Alumni 2023Alumni Meeting 2023

The 9th Meeting of Alumni, Friends and Coopoeration Partners of the Prof. Wilhelm Group took place on September 15, 2023. About 80 guests, 50 of them alumni and cooperation partners, did not miss the chance to meet again in persona after the online meeting in 2021.

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 Medium Field NMR

Expansion of our facilities:
The new medium-field NMR device from Magritek (Spinsolve 90) significantly expands our possibilities both in direct polymer analysis and in combination with other analytical methods (SEC, HPLC).

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Ausgewählte ältere Meldungen / Selected anouncements
DFG Fachkollegium

Prof. Mandfred Wilhelm engagiert sich in der Wissenschaftsförderung:
Er ist neues Mitglied im DFG Fachkollegium 3.16 Polymerforschung 3.16-01 Präparative und Physikalische Chemie von Polymeren.

Jan 2024
Knauer Award 2022

Der "Herbert Knauer Science Award 2022" geht an Markus Matz aus unserer Arbeitsgruppe für seine Arbeit zur Verwendung der kernmagnetischen Resonanz (NMR) als Detektionsmethode für die Flüssigkeitschromatografie,
In der neuen kombinierten Methode wurde die Auflösung des verwendeten Benchtop-NMR-Geräts deutlich verbessert und ist daher ein wichtiger Schritt in die Richtung, die NMR-Detektion für Standardlabore greifbarer zu machen.

Oct 2022
Akademie der Wissenschaften

Prof. Dr. Manfred Wilhelm wurde als Mitglied in die Akademie der Wissenschaften in Mainz berufen! Die Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz, gegründet 1949, bietet ihren Mitgliedern einen Ort des Dialogs, in dessen Mittelpunkt der interdisziplinäre Austausch steht.

Jan 2022
Corona-Auswirkungen: Virtuelles Alumni-Meeting
"The one and only virtual": Alumni-Meeting 2021
Sep 2021
New Equipment: Stress-Strain-Maschine from Hegewald&Peschke July 2021
Rheologie-Award 2020 of the German Rheological Society for Dr. Volker Räntzsch, many congratulations to him!. This price honors outstanding dissertations in the rheological field and gets awarded every two years. Volker Räntzsch finished his dissertation in Juli 2018, his dissertation "Polymer Crystallization under Quiescent and Flow Conditions: Relationships between Molecular Dynamics, Morphology, and Rheology" received the price in 2020. Nov 2020
ERNST-AWARD: Congratulations to Mr. Carlo Botha! He received the Ernst-Award 2020 (Award for outstanding publications of young scientists, GDCh Fachgruppe Magnetische Resonanzspektroskopie) for his Publikation Botha et al., Polym. Chem. 10, 2230–2246 (2019), (Details (DOI, Titlepage) in our list of publications). Nov 2020
Highlighted Research Article: Our Research on Fatique in Polymers (Hirschberg et al., 2018) was highlighted in the Canadien Engineering research news (Advances in Engineering) Okt 2018
New Building MZE is finished. The group has now acces to three additional labs (one chemical, two analytical labs) and office space for 10 people. Aug 2016
Entropierad (Entropy Wheel) präsentiert auf der Hannovermesse April 2015
Boysen-price for Dr. Johannes Höpfner Jan 2015
AERC 2014: Annual European Rheological Conference
The Conference in Karlsruhe organized by our research group and the group of Prof. Willenbacher has been a big success, please see a short summary of the conference.
April 2014
Latest version of the Entropie wheel offers sufficient mechanical power to haul off a passenger car Dez 2012
Sendung mit der Maus zeigt aktuelle Forschung für Kinder:
Sendetermin für die Sendung über das Entropierad
Sep 2012
Unsere Forschung in TV/Radio/Zeitung (Our research activities were presented in TV/radio/newspaper): Unser Forschungsgebiet der Meerwasserentsalzung im Fernsehen (SWR-Landesschau, 26.05.2012, WMV, 9 MB) und im Radio (SRW2 Impuls, 21.05.2012, MP3, 1.3 MB) und in der Zeitung (BNN, 19.6.2012) Mai 2012
Jun 2012
Capillary Rheology: Sensitivity of commercial available instrument improved by two orders of magnitude  Mar 2010 
Visit of Nobel Laureate Prof. R. Grubbs Jun 2009
Antrittsvorlesung Prof. Wilhelm (inaugural lecture)  Feb 2007