CeNS Publication Award

Lennart Grabenhorst, Martina Pfeiffer, Thea Schinkel, Mirjam Kümmerlin, Gereon Brüggenthies, Jasmin Maglic, Florian Selbach, Alexander Murr, Philip Tinnefeld and Viktorija Glembockyte: Engineering modular and tunable single-molecule sensors by decoupling sensing from signal output; Nature Nanotechnology (2024)

Kilian Frank, Nina Henke, Carola Lampe, Tizian Lorenzen, Benjamin März, Xiao Sun, Sylvio Haas, Olof Gutowski, Ann-Christin Dippel, Veronika Mayer, Knut Müller-Caspary, Alexander Urban & Bert Nickel: Antisolvent controls the shape and size of anisotropic lead halide perovskite nanocrystals; Nature Communications (2024)

Christoph Gruber, Laura Frey, Roman Guntermann, Dana Medina & Emiliano Cortés: Early stages of covalent organic framework formation imaged in operando; Nature (2024)

Thomas Matreux, Paula Aikkila, Bettina Scheu, Dieter Braun & Christof B. Mast: Heat flows enrich prebiotic building blocks and enhance their reactivity. Nature (2024)

Gregor Posnjak, Xin Yin, Paul Butler, Oliver Bienek, Mihir Dass, Seungwoo Lee, Ian D. Sharp, and Tim Liedl: Diamond-lattice photonic crystals assembled from DNA origami. Science (2024)

F. Cole, J. Zähringer, J. Bohlen, T. Schröder, F. Steiner, P. Schüler, M. Pfeiffer, F. Stefani, P. Tinnefeld: Super-Resolved FRET and Co-Tracking in pMINFLUX. Nature Photonics (2024)

Matias Herran, Sabrina Juergensen, Moritz Kessens, Dominik Hoeing, Andrea Köppen, Ana Sousa-Castillo, Wolfgang J. Parak, Holger Lange, Stephanie Reich, Florian Schulz & Emiliano Cortés: Plasmonic bimetallic two-dimensional supercrystals for H2 generation. Natur Catalysis (2023)

Eduard M. Unterauer. Sayedali Shetab Boushehri, Kristina Jevdokimenko, Luciano A. Masullo, Mahipal Ganji, Shama Sograte-Idrissi, Rafal Kowalewski, Sebastian Strauss, Susanne C.M. Reinhardt, Ana Perovic, Carsten Marr, Felipe Opazo, Eugenio F. Fornasiero, Ralf Jungmann: Spatial proteomics in neurons at single-protein resolutionCell (2024)

Florian Auras, Laura Ascherl, Volodymyr Bon, Simon M. Vornholt, Simon Krause, Markus Döblinger, Derya Bessinger, Stephan Reuter, Karena W. Chapman, Stefan Kaskel, Richard H. Friend & Thomas Bein: Dynamic two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks. Nature Chemistry (2024)

Andreas Aigner , Thomas Weber, Alwin Wester, Stefan Maier, Andreas Tittl: Continuous spectral and coupling-strength encoding with dual-gradient metasurfaces. Nature Nanotechnology (2024).

Best interdisciplinary publication

G. Agam, C. Gebhardt, M. Popara, R. Mächtel, J. Folz, B. Ambrose, N. Chamachi, S. Yoon Chung, T. D. Craggs, M. de Boer, D. Grohmann, T. Ha, A. Hartmann, J. Hendrix, V. Hirschfeld, C. G. Hübner, T. Hugel, D. Kammerer, H.-S. Kang, A. N. Kapanidis, G. Krainer, K. Kramm, E. A. Lemke, E. Lerner, E. Margeat, K. Martens, J. Michaelis, J. Mitra, G. G. Moya Muñoz, R. B. Quast, N. C. Robb, M. Sattler, M. Schlierf, J. Schneider, T. Schröder, A. Sefer, P. Siong Tan, J. Thurn, P. Tinnefeld, J. van Noort, S. Weiss, N. Wendler, N. Zijlstra, A. Barth, C. A. M. Seidel, D. C. Lamb, and T. Cordes: Reliability and accuracy of single-molecule FRET studies for characterization of structural dynamics and distances in proteins, Nature Methods 20, 523–535 (2023)

Simon Wanninger, Pooyeh Asadiatouei, Johann Bohlen, Clemens-Bässem Salem, Philip Tinnefeld, Evelyn Ploetz, and Don C. Lamb: Deep-LASI: deep-learning assisted, single-molecule imaging analysis of multi-color DNA origami structures, Nature Communications 14, 6564 (2023)

Annalena Salditt, Leonie Karr, Elia Salibi, Kristian Le Vay, Dieter Braun, and Hannes Mutschler: Ribozyme-mediated RNA synthesis and replication in a model Hadean microenvironment. Nature Communications 14, 1495 (2023)

Meifang Fu, Tom Burkart, Ivan Maryshev, Henri G. Franquelim, Adrián Merino-Salomón, María Reverte-López, Erwin Frey, and Petra Schwille: Mechanochemical feedback loop drives persistent motion of liposomes. Nature Physics 19, 1211–1218 (2023)

Scientific breakthrough

Shen Zhao, Zhijie Li, Xin Huang, Anna Rupp, Jonas Göser, Ilia A. Vovk, Stanislav Yu. Kruchinin, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Ismail Bilgin, Anvar S. Baimuratov, and Alexander Högele: Excitons in mesoscopically reconstructed moiré heterostructures, Nature Nanotechnology 18, 572–579 (2023)

Thomas Weber, Lucca Kühner, Luca Sortino, Amine Ben Mhenni, Nathan P. Wilson, Julius Kühne, Jonathan J. Finley, Stefan A. Maier, and Andreas Tittl: Intrinsic strong light-matter coupling with self-hybridized bound states in the continuum in van der Waals metasurfaces, Nature Materials 22, 970–976 (2023)

Susanne C. M. Reinhardt, Luciano A. Masullo, Isabelle Baudrexel, Philipp R. Steen, Rafal Kowalewski, Alexandra S. Eklund, Sebastian Strauss, Eduard M. Unterauer, Thomas Schlichthaerle, Maximilian T. Strauss, Christian Klein, and Ralf Jungmann: Ångström-resolution fluorescence microscopy, Nature 617, 711–716 (2023)
Irina V. Martynenko , Elisabeth Erber, Veronika Ruider, Mihir Dass, Gregor Posnjak, Xin Yin, Philipp Altpeter, and Tim Liedl: Site-directed placement of three-dimensional DNA origami, Nat. Nanotechnol. 18, 1456–1462 (2023)

Best junior scientist publication

Lea M. Wassermann, Michael Scheckenbach, Anna V. Baptist, Viktorija Glembockyte, and Amelie Heuer-Jungemann: Full site-specific addressability in DNA origami-templated silica nanostructures, Advanced Materials 35(23), 2212024 (2023)

Ilka Vinçon, Anja Barfüßer, Jochen Feldmann, and Quinten A. Akkerman: Quantum Dot Metal Salt Interactions Unraveled by the Sphere of Action Mode, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 145(26), 14395–14403 (2023)

Best interdisciplinary publication

Adrian Fuchs, Petra Mannhardt, Patrick Hirschle, Haoze Wang, Irina Zaytseva, Zhe Ji, Omar Yaghi, Stefan Wuttke, and Evelyn Ploetz: Single Crystals Heterogeneity Impacts the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Properties of Metal–Organic Frameworks, Advanced Materials (2021).

Martina F. Ober, Anna Baptist, Lea Wassermann, Amelie Heuer-Jungemann, and Bert Nickel: In situ small-angle X-ray scattering reveals strong condensation of DNA origami during silicification, Nature Comm. (2022)

Laura Frey, Jonas Pöhls, Matthias Hennemann, Andre Mähringer, Stephan Reuter, Timothy Clark, R. Thomas Weitz, and Dana Medina: Oriented Thiophene-Extended Benzotrithiophene Covalent Organic Framework Thin Films: Directional Electrical Conductivity, Advanced Functional Materials (2022)

Scientific breakthrough

Lei Zhang, Michael Isselstein, Jens Köhler, Nikolaos Eleftheriadis, Nadia M. Huisjes, Miguel Guirao-Ortiz, Alessandra Narducci, Jochem H. Smit, Janko Stoffels, Hartmann Harz, Heinrich Leonhardt, Andreas Herrmann, and Thorben Cordes: Linker Molecules Convert Commercial Fluorophores into Tailored Functional Probes during Biolabelling, Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. (2022)

Konrad Birkmeier, Tobias Hertel, and Achim Hartschuh: Probing the ultrafast dynamics of excitons in single semiconducting carbon nanotubes, Nature Comm. (2022)

Florian M. Gartner, Isabella R. Graf, and Erwin Frey: The time complexity of self-assembly, PNAS (2022)

Anja Barfüßer, Sebastian Rieger, Amrita Dey, Ahmet Tosun, Quinten A. Akkerman, Tushar Debnath, and Jochen Feldmann: Confined Excitons in Spherical-Like Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots, Nano Letters (2022)

Best junior scientist publication

Merve-Zeynep Kesici, Philip Tinnefeld and Andres Manuel Vera: A simple and general approach to generate photoactivatable DNA processing enzymes, Nucleic Acid Research (2021)

Lucca Kühner, Luca Sortino, Rodrigo Berté, Juan Wang, Haoren Ren, Stefan A. Maier, Yuri S. Kivshar, and Andreas Tittl: Radial bound states in the continuum for polarization-insensitive nanophotonics, Nature Comm. (2022)

Lukas Zeisel, Jan G. Felber, Karoline C. Scholzen, Lena Poczka, Dorian Cheff, Martin S. Maier, Qing Cheng, Min Shen, Matthew D. Hall, Elias S.J. Arnér, Julia Thorn-Seshold, and Oliver Thorn-Seshold: Selective cellular probes for mammalian thioredoxin reductase TrxR1: Rational design of RX1, a modular 1,2-thiaselenane redox probe, Chem (2022)

Best interdisciplinary publication

T. Matreux, K. Le Vay, A. Schmid, P. Aikkila, L. Belohlavek, A. Z. Çalışkanoğlu, E. Salibi, A. Kühnlein, C. Springsklee, B. Scheu, D. B. Dingwell, D. Braun, H. Mutschler and C. B. Mast: Heat flows in rock cracks naturally optimize salt compositions for ribozymes; Nature Chemistry, 10.1038/s41557-021-00772-5 (2021)

B. Ramm, A. Goychuk, A. Khmelinskaia, P. Blumhardt, H. Eto, K. A. Ganzinger, E. Frey and P. Schwille: A diffusiophoretic mechanism for ATP-driven transport without motor proteins; Nature Physics, 10.1038/s41567-021-01213-3 (2021)

S. Vadia, J. Scherzer, H. Thierschmann, C. Schäfermeier, C. Dal Savio, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, D. Hunger, K. Karraï and A. Högele: Open-Cavity in Closed-Cycle Cryostat as a Quantum Optics Platform; PRX Quantum, 10.1103/PRXQuantum.2.040318 (2021)

Scientific breakthrough

F. B. Kugler, S.-S. B. Lee and J. von Delft: Multipoint Correlation Functions: Spectral Representation and Numerical Evaluation; Physical Review X, 10.1103/PhysRevX.11.041006 (2021)

K. J. Kaltenecker, T. Gölz, E. Bau and F. Keilmann: Infrared-spectroscopic, dynamic near-field microscopy of living cells and nanoparticles in water; Scientific Reports, 10.1038/s41598-021-01425-w (2021)

L. Hüttenhofer, M. Golibrzuch, O. Bienek, F. J. Wendisch, R. Lin, M. Becherer, I. D. Sharp, S. A. Maier and E. Cortés: Metasurface Photoelectrodes for Enhanced Solar Fuel Generation; Advanced Energy Materials, https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.202102877

K. Trofymchuk, V. Glembockyte, L. Grabenhorst, F. Steiner, C. Vietz, C. Close, M. Pfeiffer, L. Richter, M. L. Schütte, F. Selbach, R. Yaadav, J. Zähringer, Q. Wei, A. Ozcan, B. Lalkens, G. P. Acuna and P. Tinnefeld: Addressable nanoantennas with cleared hotspots for single-molecule detection on a portable smartphone microscope; Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-021-21238-9 (2021)

Best junior scientist publication

M. S. Brugger, K. Baumgartner, S. C. F. Mauritz, S. C. Gerlach, F. Röder, C. Schlosser, R. Fluhrer, A. Wixforth and C. Westerhausen: Vibration enhanced cell growth induced by surface acoustic waves as in vitro wound healing model; PNAS, (2020)

R. M. L. Berger, J. M. Weck, S. M. Kempe, O. Hill, T. Liedl, J. O. Rädler, C. Monzel and A. Heuer-Jungemann: Nanoscale FasL Organization on DNA Origami to Decipher Apoptosis Signal Activation in Cells; Small, https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202101678 (2021)

A. Mehlich, J. Fang, B. Pelz, H. Li and J. Stigler: Slow Transition Path Times Reveal a Complex Folding Barrier in a Designed Protein; Frontiers in Chemistry, 10.3389/fchem.2020.587824 (2020)

A. Mähringer, M. Döblinger, M. Hennemann, C. Gruber, D. Fehn, P. I. Scheurle, P. Hosseini, I. Santourian, A. Schirmacher, J. M. Rotter, G. Wittstock, K. Meyer, T. Clark, T. Bein and D. D. Medina: An Electrically Conducting Three-Dimensional Iron–Catecholate Porous Framework; Angewandte Chemie International Edition, https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202102670 (2021)

Best interdisciplinary publication

K. Bartnik, A. Barth, M. Pilo-Pais, A. H. Crevenna, T. Liedl and D. C. Lamb: A DNA Origami Platform for Single-Pair Forster Resonance Energy Transfer Investigation of DNA-DNA Interactions and Ligation; Journal of the American Chemical Society, 10.1021/jacs.9b09093 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b09093

P. Glock, F. Brauns, J. Halatek, E. Frey and P. Schwille: Design of biochemical pattern forming systems from minimal motifs; Elife, 10.7554/eLife.48646 (2019) https://elifesciences.org/articles/48646

K. Gottschling, G. Savasci, H. Vignolo-Gonzalez, S. Schmidt, P. Mauker, T. Banerjee, P. Rovo, C. Ochsenfeld and B. V. Lotsch: Rational Design of Covalent Cobaloxime-Covalent Organic Framework Hybrids for Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution; Journal of the American Chemical Society, 10.1021/jacs.0c02155 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.0c02155

Scientific breakthrough

D. B. Bruckner, P. Ronceray and C. P. Broedersz: Inferring the Dynamics of Underdamped Stochastic Systems; Physical Review Letters, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.058103 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.058103

J. Förste, N. V. Tepliakov, S. Y. Kruchinin, J. Lindlau, V. Funk, M. Förg, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, A. S. Baimuratov and A. Högele: Exciton g-factors in monolayer and bilayer WSe2 from experiment and theory; Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-020-18019-1 (2020) doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18019-1

A. Salditt, L. M. R. Keil, D. P. Horning, C. B. Mast, G. F. Joyce and D. Braun: Thermal Habitat for RNA Amplification and Accumulation; Physical Review Letters, 10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.048104 (2020) doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.125.048104

S. Strauss and R. Jungmann: Up to 100-fold speed-up and multiplexing in optimized DNA-PAINT; Nature Methods, 10.1038/s41592-020-0869-x (2020) doi.org/10.1038/s41592-020-0869-x

Best junior scientist publication

J. W. Fang, T. Debnath, S. Bhattacharyya, M. Doblinger, J. Feldmann and J. K. Stolarczyk: Photobase effect for just-in-time delivery in photocatalytic hydrogen generation; Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-020-18583-6 (2020) https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-18583-6

A. Müller-Deku, J. C. M. Meiring, K. Loy, Y. Kraus, C. Heise, R. Bingham, K. I. Jansen, X. Qu, F. Bartolini, L. C. Kapitein, A. Akhmanova, J. Ahlfeld, D. Trauner and O. Thorn-Seshold: Photoswitchable paclitaxel-based microtubule stabilisers allow optical control over the microtubule cytoskeleton; Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-020-18389-6 (2020) doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-18389-6

E. Ploetz, A. Zimpel, V. Cauda, D. Bauer, D. C. Lamb, C. Haisch, S. Zahler, A. M. Vollmar, S. Wuttke and H. Engelke: Metal-Organic Framework Nanoparticles Induce Pyroptosis in Cells Controlled by the Extracellular pH; Advanced Materials, 10.1002/adma.201907267 (2020) https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201907267

Best interdisciplinary publication

D. B. Brückner, A. Fink, C. Schreiber, P. J. F. Röttgermann, J. O. Rädler and C. P. Broedersz: Stochastic nonlinear dynamics of confined cell migration in two-state systems; Nature Physics, 10.1038/s41567-019-0445-4 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41567-019-0445-4

M. Morasch, J. Liu, C. F. Dirscherl, A. Ianeselli, A. Kühnlein, K. Le Vay, P. Schwintek, S. Islam, M. K. Corpinot, B. Scheu, D. B. Dingwell, P. Schwille, H. Mutschler, M. W. Powner, C. B. Mast and D. Braun: Heated gas bubbles enrich, crystallize, dry, phosphorylate and encapsulate prebiotic molecules; Nature Chemistry, 10.1038/s41557-019-0299-5 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41557-019-0299-5

B. Rogez, L. Würthner, A. B. Petrova, F. B. Zierhut, D. Saczko-Brack, M.-A. Huergo, C. Batters, E. Frey and C. Veigel: Reconstitution reveals how myosin-VI self-organises to generate a dynamic mechanism of membrane sculpting; Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-019-11268-9 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11268-9

J. Stein, F. Stehr, P. Schueler, P. Blumhardt, F. Schueder, J. Mücksch, R. Jungmann and P. Schwille: Toward Absolute Molecular Numbers in DNA-PAINT; Nano Letters, 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03546 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03546

Scientific breakthrough

M. Förg, L. Colombier, R. K. Patel, J. Lindlau, A. D. Mohite, H. Yamaguchi, M. M. Glazov, D. Hunger and A. Högele: Cavity-control of interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures; Nature Communications, 10.1038/s41467-019-11620-z (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11620-z

J. Lenz, F. del Giudice, F. R. Geisenhof, F. Winterer and R. T. Weitz: Vertical, electrolyte-gated organic transistors show continuous operation in the MA cm−2 regime and artificial synaptic behaviour; Nature Nanotechnology, 10.1038/s41565-019-0407-0 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0407-0

A. Löf, P. U. Walker, S. M. Sedlak, S. Gruber, T. Obser, M. A. Brehm, M. Benoit and J. Lipfert: Multiplexed protein force spectroscopy reveals equilibrium protein folding dynamics and the low-force response of von Willebrand factor; Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 10.1073/pnas.1901794116 (2019) http://www.pnas.org/content/116/38/18798.abstract

Best junior scientist publication

P. Rovó, C. A. Smith, D. Gauto, B. L. de Groot, P. Schanda and R. Linser: Mechanistic Insights into Microsecond Time-Scale Motion of Solid Proteins Using Complementary 15N and 1H Relaxation Dispersion Techniques; Journal of the American Chemical Society, 10.1021/jacs.8b09258 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b09258

A. Zimpel, N. Al Danaf, B. Steinborn, J. Kuhn, M. Höhn, T. Bauer, P. Hirschle, W. Schrimpf, H. Engelke, E. Wagner, M. Barz, D. C. Lamb, U. Lächelt and S. Wuttke: Coordinative Binding of Polymers to Metal–Organic Framework Nanoparticles for Control of Interactions at the Biointerface; Acs Nano, 10.1021/acsnano.8b06287 (2019) https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.8b06287

H. Huang, Y. Li, Y. Tong, E.-P. Yao, M. W. Feil, A. F. Richter, M. Döblinger, A. L. Rogach, J. Feldmann and L. Polavarapu: Spontaneous Crystallization of Perovskite Nanocrystals in Nonpolar Organic Solvents: A Versatile Approach for their Shape-Controlled Synthesis; Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 10.1002/anie.201906862 (2019) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/anie.201906862