We invite you to check out our new article on the Varying Monomer Charge in SI-bioATRP Polymer Grafting from Mesoporous Silica, a collaboration with our colleagues from the Bruns group.

The Smarties start the year off in great fashion with a string of social activities. At our working group we continuously highly value a collegial work environment and team spirit! In the past weeks we rose to local fame by winning the renowned pub quiz at Bruchbude, celebrated by enjoying a lovely New Year´s Breakfast during a pleasantly cozy January morning and battled in this years first Smarties Game Night.

Our working group strongly advocates resource-efficient lab practices and wants to contribute to a more sustainable future in science. Therefore, we are incredibly proud to share that we have received a LEAF certificate for our efforts. The Laboratory Efficiency Assessment Framework (in short LEAF) is a tool to assess sustainable laboratory practices which was developed at the University College London and is considered to have become the largest green lab certification program on international scale. Yet still our efforts will not stop here as we will continue to strive for highest standards because we consider sustainable lab practices as an important foundation for modern scientific achievements.