GSC 266:  Materials Science in Mainz

• Subject Area: Polymer Research
• Term: from 2008 to 2019
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 49741853

• Final Report Year: 2019

Final Report Abstract

The Graduate School of Excellence “Materials Science in Mainz” (MAINZ) has offered over the past 12 years innovative scientific, technical and complementary PhD training combined with excellent research in materials science. MAINZ has bridged previously disjoint fields of research, ranging from simple model systems and correlated materials to functional polymers, hybrid structures and bio-related materials. This has allowed MAINZ members to develop a common language, to foster interdisciplinary transfer of knowledge, and to gain insight into systems traditionally seen as separate. MAINZ has gained a strong international reputation in materials science, with already more than 220 PhD students having graduated from MAINZ. Our students have been supervised by selected excellent scientists from Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), the University of Kaiserslautern (TUKL) and the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research (MPI-P). The MAINZ main training objective is to provide a comprehensive but flexible graduate program that is tailored to the individual needs of our PhD students. Our training concept combined Training through Research with Training for Life offering comprehensive education for future professionals in academia, industry, and beyond. MAINZ has provided scientific and technical training in selected areas of advanced Synthesis and Characterization, Theory and Simulations as well as Processing, Method Development. By a sophisticated mentoring program our students have been prepared for a broad range of future careers. The training program has been supported by our strong links to industrial partners and comprised a range of judiciously selected transferable skills courses. By exposing its members to diverse fields of materials science and bringing together seemingly disjunct ideas and concepts, MAINZ has encouraged creativity and has inspired novel associations between its research areas as well as collaborations between its partners. This has resulted in intensified collaborations and sustained excellent research and comprehensive training necessary to meet key societal challenges ahead.

Link to the final report

https://dx.doi.org/10.2314/GBV:169701139X

Publications

• Adaptive subwavelength control of nano-optical fields. Nature 446, 301 (2007)
  M. Aeschlimann, M. Bauer, D. Bayer, T. Brixner, F. J. García de Abajo, W. Pfeiffer, M. Rohmer, C. Spindler and F. Steeb
  
• Liquid crystalline phases from polymer-functionalized TiO2 nanorods. Advanced Materials 19, 2073 (2007)
  S. Meuer, P. Oberle, P. Theato, W. Tremel and R. Zentel
  
• Phase selection of calcium carbonate through the chirality of adsorbed amino acids. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 46, 5618-23 (2007)
  E. Wolf, N. Loges, B. Mathiasch, M. Panthofer, I. Mey, A. Janshoff and W. Tremel
  
• Photoresponsive ferroelectric liquid-crystalline polymers. Advanced Functional Materials 17, 109-114 (2007)
  P. Beyer, M. Krueger, F. Giesselmann and R. Zentel
  
• Self-assembly of small gold colloids with functionalized gold nanorods. Nano Lett 7, 259-63 (2007)
  S. Pierrat, I. Zins, A. Breivogel and C. Sonnichsen
  
• Separation of nanoparticles by gel electrophoresis according to size and shape. Nano Lett 7, 2881-5 (2007)
  M. Hanauer, S. Pierrat, I. Zins, A. Lotz and C. Sonnichsen
  
• Determination of spin injection and transport in a ferromagnet/organic semiconductor heterojunction by two-photon photoemission. Nature Materials 8, 115 (2008)
  M. Cinchetti, K. Heimer, J.-P. Wüstenberg, O. Andreyev, M. Bauer, S. Lach, C. Ziegler, Y. Gao and M. Aeschlimann
  
• Gold nanoparticles coated with a thermosensitive hyperbranched polyelectrolyte: towards smart temperature and pH nanosensors. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 47, 2227-2230 (2008)
  Y. Shen, M. Kuang, Z. Shen, J. Nieberle, H. Duan, H. Frey
  
• Growth of gold tips onto hyperbranched CdTe nanostructures. Advanced Materials 20, 588 (2008)
  Y. Khalavka and C. Sonnichsen
  
• High-resolution scanning electron microscopy of an ultracold quantum gas. Nature Physics 4, 949 (2008)
  T. Gericke, P. Würtz, D. Reitz, T. Langen and H. Ott
  
• kermuller, S. Will, T. Best, I. Bloch, T. A. Costi, R. W. Helmes, D. Rasch and A. Rosch. Metallic and insulating phases of repulsively interacting fermions in a 3D optical lattice. Science 322, 1520-5 (2008)
  U. Schneider, L. Hackermuller, S. Will, T. Best, I. Bloch, T. A. Costi, R. W. Helmes, D. Rasch and A. Rosch
  
• Mapping the polarization pattern of plasmon modes reveals nanoparticle symmetry. Nano Lett 8, 2345-50 (2008)
  O. Schubert, J. Becker, L. Carbone, Y. Khalavka, T. Provalska, I. Zins and C. Sonnichsen
  
• Plasmonic focusing reduces ensemble linewidth of silver-coated gold nanorods. Nano Lett 8, 1719-23 (2008)
  J. Becker, I. Zins, A. Jakab, Y. Khalavka, O. Schubert and C. Sonnichsen
  
• Polypyrene dendrimers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 47, 10175-8 (2008)
  T. M. Figueira-Duarte, S. C. Simon, M. Wagner, S. I. Druzhinin, K. A. Zachariasse and K. Mullen
  
• Quantitative optical trapping of single gold nanorods. Nano Lett 8, 2998-3003 (2008)
  C. Selhuber-Unkel, I. Zins, O. Schubert, C. Sonnichsen and L. B. Oddershede
  
• Reply to "Mirror Symmetry Breaking" of the centrosymmetric CaCO3 crystals with amino acids. Angewandte Chemie-International Edition 47, 3683-3686 (2008)
  N. Loges, S. E. Wolf, M. Panthofer, L. Muller, M. C. Reinnig, T. Hoffmann and W. Tremel
  
• A Macrocyclic Model Dodecamer for Polyfluorenes. Advanced Materials 21, 83-85 (2009)
  S. C. Simon, B. Schmaltz, A. Rouhanipour, H. J. Rader and K. Mullen
  
• Bismuthcatalyzed growth of SnS2 nanotubes and their stability. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 48, 6426-30 (2009)
  A. Yella, E. Mugnaioli, M. Panthofer, H. A. Therese, U. Kolb and W. Tremel
  
• Electronic and magnetic phase diagram of β-Fe1.01Se with superconductivity at 36.7 K under pressure. Nature Materials 8, 630 (2009)
  S. Medvedev, T. M. McQueen, I. A. Troyan, T. Palasyuk, M. I. Eremets, R. J. Cava, S. Maghavi, F. Casper, V. Ksenofontov, G. Wortmann and C. Felser
  
• Enzyme-Mediated Deposition of a TiO2 Coating onto Biofunctionalized WS2 Chalcogenide Nanotubes. Advanced Functional Materials 19, 285-291 (2009)
  M. N. Tahir, F. Natalio, H. A. Therese, A. Yella, N. Metz, M. R. Shah, E. Mugnaioli, R. Berger, P. Theato, H. C. Schroder, W. E. G. Muller and W. Tremel
  
• Functional end groups for polymers prepared using ringopening metathesis polymerization. Nat Chem 1, 537-46 (2009)
  S. Hilf and A. F. Kilbinger
  
• Light-controlled one-sided growth of large plasmonic gold domains on quantum rods observed on the single particle level. Nano Lett 9, 3710-4 (2009)
  L. Carbone, A. Jakab, Y. Khalavka and C. Sonnichsen
  
• Mechanically interlocked calix[4]arene dimers display reversible bond breakage under force. Nature Nanotechnology 4, 225 (2009)
  M. Janke, Y, Rudzvichm O. Molokanova, T. Metzroth, I. Mey, G. Diezemann, P. E. Marszalek, J. Gauss, V. Böhmer and A. Janshoff
  
• Pathogen-Mimicking MnO Nanoparticles for Selective Activation of the TLR9 Pathway and Imaging of Cancer Cells. Advanced Functional Materials 19, 3717-3725 (2009)
  M. I. Shukoor, F. Natalio, M. N. Tahir, M. Wiens, M. Tarantola, H. A. Therese, M. Barz, S. Weber, M. Terekhov, H. C. Schroder, W. E. G. Muller, A. Janshoff, P. Theato, R. Zentel, L. M. Schreiber and W. Tremel
  
• Phosphonated hexaphenylbenzene: a crystalline proton conductor. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 48, 9951-3 (2009)
  L. Jimenez-Garcia, A. Kaltbeitzel, W. Pisula, J. S. Gutmann, M. Klapper and K. Mullen
  
• Towards high charge-carrier mobilities by rational design of the shape and periphery of discotics. Nature Materials 8, 421 (2009)
  X. Feng, V. Macron, W. Pisula, M. R. Hansen, J. Kirkpatrick, F. Grozema, D. Andrienko, K. Kremer and K. Müllen
  
• Au@MnO nanoflowers: hybrid nanocomposites for selective dual functionalization and imaging. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 49, 3976-80 (2010)
  T. D. Schladt, M. I. Shukoor, K. Schneider, M. N. Tahir, F. Natalio, I. Ament, J. Becker, F. D. Jochum, S. Weber, O. Kohler, P. Theato, L. M. Schreiber, C. Sonnichsen, H. C. Schroder, W. E. Muller and W. Tremel
  
• Bonding in the heavy analogue of hydrogen cyanide: the curious case of bridged HPSi. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 49, 5661-4 (2010)
  V. Lattanzi, S. Thorwirth, D. T. Halfen, L. A. Muck, L. M. Ziurys, P. Thaddeus, J. Gauss and M. C. McCarthy
  
• Control of the Properties of Micrometer-Sized Actuators from Liquid Crystalline Elastomers Prepared in a Microfluidic Setup. Advanced Functional Materials 20, 4314-4322 (2010)
  C. Ohm, E. K. Fleischmann, I. Kraus, C. Serra and R. Zentel
  
• Light induced charging of polymer functionalized nanorods. Nano Lett 10, 2812-6 (2010)
  M. Zorn, S. A. Weber, M. N. Tahir, W. Tremel, H. J. Butt, R. Berger and R. Zentel
  
• Reversible self-assembly of metal chalcogenide/metal oxide nanostructures based on Pearson hardness. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 49, 7578-82 (2010)
  J. K. Sahoo, M. N. Tahir, A. Yella, T. D. Schladt, E. Mugnaoli, U. Kolb and W. Tremel
  
• Timeresolved observation of coherent multi-body interactions in quantum phase revivals. Nature 465, 197-201 (2010)
  S. Will, T. Best, U. Schneider, L. Hackermuller, D. S. Luhmann and I. Bloch
  
• Tunable multifunctional topological insulators in ternary Heusler compounds. Nature Materials 9, 541 (2010)
  S. Chadov, X. Qi, J. Kübler, G. H. Fecher, C. Felser and S. C. Zhang
  
• Visualizing and controlling vibrational wave packets of single molecules. Nature 465, 905 (2010)
  D. Brinks, F. D. Stefani, F. Kulzer, R. hildner, T. H. Taminiau, Y. Avlasevich, K. Müllen and N. F. van Hulst
  
• 61] N. Vogel, L. de Viguerie, U. Jonas, C. K. Weiss and K. Landfester. Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Ordered Binary Colloidal Monolayers with Adjustable Stoichiometries. Advanced Functional Materials 21, 3064-3073 (2011)
  N. Vogel, L. de Viguerie, U. Jonas, C. K. Weiss and K. Landfester
  
• Graphene nanoribbons by chemists: nanometer-sized, soluble, and defect-free. Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English) 50, 2540-2542 (2011)
  L. Dössel, L. Gherghel, X. Feng and K. Müllen
  
• Multifunctional Poly(ethylene glycol)s. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 50, 7988-97 (2011)
  B. Obermeier, F. Wurm, C. Mangold and H. Frey
  
• Nucleation mechanism for the direct graphite-to-diamond phase transition. Nature Materials 10, 693 (2011)
  R.Z. Khaliullin, H. Eshet, T. D. Kühne, J. Behler and M. Parrinello
  
• Organic Proton-Conducting Molecules as Solid-State Separator Materials for Fuel Cell Applications. Advanced Functional Materials 21, 2216-2224 (2011)
  L. Jiménez-García, A. Kaltbeitzel, V. Enkelmann, J. S. Gutmann, M. Klapper and K. Müllen
  
• Plasmon hybridization in stacked double crescents arrays fabricated by colloidal lithography. Nano Lett 11, 446-54 (2011
  N. Vogel, J. Fischer, R. Mohammadi, M. Retsch, H. J. Butt, K. Landfester, C. K. Weiss and M. Kreiter
  
• Synthesis of nanometer-sized, rigid, and hydrophobic anions. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 50, 4962-5 (2011)
  D. Turp, M. Wagner, V. Enkelmann and K. Mullen
  
• The folding of individual conjugated polymer chains during annealing. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 50, 5256-7 (2011)
  F. A. Feist and T. Basche
  
• Cyclic SiS2: a new perspective on the Walsh rules. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 51, 3695-8 (2012)
  L. A. Muck, V. Lattanzi, S. Thorwirth, M. C. McCarthy and J. Gauss
  
• Single unlabeled protein detection on individual plasmonic nanoparticles. Nano Lett 12, 1092-5 (2012)
  I. Ament, J. Prasad, A. Henkel, S. Schmachtel and C. Sonnichsen
  
• Thermomagnetic Properties Improved by Self-Organized Flower-Like Phase Separation of Ferromagnetic Co2Dy0.5Mn0.5Sn. Advanced Functional Materials 22, 1822-1826 (2012)
  M. Schwall, L. M. Schoop, S. Ouardi, B. Balke, C. Felser, P. Klaer and H. J. Elmers
  
• Ultrafast optical demagnetization manipulates nanoscale spin structure in domain walls. Nature communications 3, 1100 (2012)
  B. Pfau, S. Schafert, L. Müller, C. Gutt, A. Al-Shemmary, F. Büttner, R. Delaunay, S. Düsterer, S. Flewett, R. Frömter, J. Geilhufe, E. Guehrs, C.M. Günther, R. Hawaldar, M. Hille, N. Jaouen, A. Kobs, K. Li, J. Mohanty, H. Redlin, W.F. Schlotter, D. Stickler, R. Treusch, B. Vodungbo, M. Kläui, H.P. Oepen, J. Lüning, G. Grübel and S. Eisebitt
  
• Vanadium pentoxide nanoparticles mimic vanadium haloperoxidases and thwart biofilm formation. Nature Nanotechnology 7, 530 (2012)
  F. Natalio, R. André, A. F. Hartog, B. Stoll, K. P. Jochum, R. Wever and W. Tremel
  
• Correlation between spin structure oscillations and domain wall velocities. Nat Commun 4, 2328 (2013)
  A. Bisig, M. Stark, M. A. Mawass, C. Moutafis, J. Rhensius, J. Heidler, F. Buttner, M. Noske, M. Weigand, S. Eisebitt, T. Tyliszczak, B. Van Waeyenberge, H. Stoll, G. Schutz and M. Klaui
  
• Multiplexed plasmon sensor for rapid label-free analyte detection. Nano Lett 13, 3243-7 (2013)
  C. Rosman, J. Prasad, A. Neiser, A. Henkel, J. Edgar and C. Sonnichsen
  
• Tuning electron transfer rates through molecular bridges in quantum dot sensitized oxides. Nano Lett 13, 5311- 5 (2013)
  H. Wang, E. R. McNellis, S. Kinge, M. Bonn and E. Canovas
  
• Well-defined nanofibers with tunable morphology from spherical colloidal building blocks. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 52, 10107-11 (2013)
  M. B. Bannwarth, S. W. Kazer, S. Ulrich, G. Glasser, D. Crespy and K. Landfester
  
• Aggregation behavior of cationic nanohydrogel particles in human blood serum. Biomacromolecules 15, 1526-1533 (2014)
  L. Nuhn, S. Gietzen, K. mohr, K. Fischer, K. Toh, K. Miyata, Y. Matsumoto, K. Kataoka, M. Schmidt and R. Zentel
  
• Concise synthesis of 3D pi-extended polyphenylene cylinders. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 53, 1525-8 (2014)
  F. E. Golling, M. Quernheim, M. Wagner, T. Nishiuchi and K. Mullen
  
• Interplay between structure, stoichiometry, and electron transfer dynamics in SILAR-based quantum dot-sensitized oxides. Nano Lett 14, 5780-6 (2014)
  H. Wang, I. Barcelo, T. Lana-Villarreal, R. Gomez, M. Bonn and E. Canovas
  
• Monolithic focused reference beam X- ray holography. Nat Commun 5, 3008 (2014)
  J. Geilhufe, B. Pfau, M. Schneider, F. Buttner, C. M. Gunther, S. Werner, S. Schaffert, E. Guehrs, S. Frommel, M. Klaui and S. Eisebitt
  
• Plasmonic nanosensors for simultaneous quantification of multiple protein-protein binding affinities. Nano Lett 14, 5528-32 (2014)
  R. Ahijado-Guzman, J. Prasad, C. Rosman, A. Henkel, L. Tome, D. Schneider, G. Rivas and C. Sonnichsen
  
• Substrate templating guides the photoinduced reaction of C60 on calcite. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 53, 7952-5 (2014)
  R. Lindner, P. Rahe, M. Kittelmann, A. Gourdon, R. Bechstein and A. Kuhnle
  
• [Cr(ddpd)2]3+: a Molecular, Water-Soluble, Highly NIR-Emissive Ruby Analogue. Angewandte Chemie Int Ed 54, 11735-11739 (2015)
  S. Otto, M. Grabolle, C. Förster, C. Kreitner, U. Resch-Genger and K. Heinze
  
• Controlling the Spin Texture of Topological Insulators by Rational Design of Organic Molecules. Nano Lett 15, 6022-9 (2015)
  S. Jakobs, A. Narayan, B. Stadtmuller, A. Droghetti, I. Rungger, Y. S. Hor, S. Klyatskaya, D. Jungkenn, J. Stockl, M. Laux, O. L. Monti, M. Aeschlimann, R. J. Cava, M. Ruben, S. Mathias, S. Sanvito and M. Cinchetti
  
• Dynamics and inertia of skyrmionic spin structures. Nature Physics 11, 225-228 (2015)
  F. Büttner, C. Moutafis, M. Schneider, B. Krüger, C. M. Günther, J. Geilhufe, C. v. K. Schmising, J. Mohanty, B. Pfau, S. Schaffert, A. Bisig, M. Foerster, T. Schulz, C. A. F. Vaz, J. H. Franken, H. J. M. Swagten, M. Kläui and S. Eisebitt
  
• Ionic liquids: not only structurally but also dynamically heterogeneous. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 54, 687-90 (2015)
  Z. P. Zheng, W. H. Fan, S. Roy, K. Mazur, A. Nazet, R. Buchner, M. Bonn and J. Hunger
  
• Mesoscopic Rydberg-blockaded ensembles in the superatom regime and beyond. Nature Physics 11, 157-161 (2015)
  T. M. Weber, M. Höning, T. Niederprüm, T. Manthey, O. Thomas, V. Guarrera, M. Fleischhauer, G. Barontini and H. Ott
  
• Poly(phosphoester)s: A New Platform for Degradable Polymers. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 54, 6098-108 (2015)
  T. Steinbach and F. R. Wurm
  
• The negative piezoelectric effect of the ferroelectric polymer poly(vinylidene fluoride). Nat Mater 15, 78-84 (2015)
  I. Katsouras, K. Asadi, M. Li, T. B. van Driel, K. S. Kjaer, D. Zhao, T. Lenz, Y. Gu, P. W. Blom, D. Damjanovic, M. M. Nielsen and D. M. de Leeuw
  
• Topological states on the gold surface. Nat Commun 6, 10167 (2015)
  B. Yan, B. Stadtmuller, N. Haag, S. Jakobs, J. Seidel, D. Jungkenn, S. Mathias, M. Cinchetti, M. Aeschlimann and C. Felser
  
• Access to Pyrazolidin-3,5-diones through Anodic N-N Bond Formation. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 55, 9437-40 (2016)
  T. Gieshoff, D. Schollmeyer and S. R. Waldvogel
  
• Downscaling and Charge Transport in Nanostructured Ferroelectric Memory Diodes Fabricated by Solution Micromolding. Advanced Functional Materials 26, 5111-5119 (2016)
  T. Lenz, M. Ghittorelli, F. S. Benneckendorf, K. Asadi, C. Kasparek, G. Glasser, P. W. M. Blom, F. Torricelli and D. M. de Leeuw
  
• Dynamic spin filtering at the Co/Alq3 interface mediated by weakly coupled second layer molecules. Nat Commun 7, 12668 (2016)
  A. Droghetti, P. Thielen, I. Rungger, N. Haag, N. Grossmann, J. Stockl, B. Stadtmuller, M. Aeschlimann, S. Sanvito and M. Cinchetti
  
• Electrochemical Allylic Oxidation of Olefins: Sustainable and Safe. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 55, 12578-80 (2016)
  S. R. Waldvogel and M. Selt
  
• Light Localization and Magneto-Optic Enhancement in Ni Antidot Arrays. Nano Lett 16, 2432-8 (2016)
  M. Rollinger, P. Thielen, E. Melander, E. Ostman, V. Kapaklis, B. Obry, M. Cinchetti, A. Garcia-Martin, M. Aeschlimann and E. T. Papaioannou
  
• Observation of pendular butterfly Rydberg molecules. Nat Commun 7, 12820 (2016)
  T. Niederprum, O. Thomas, T. Eichert, C. Lippe, J. Perez-Rios, C. H. Greene and H. Ott
  
• Observation of room-temperature magnetic skyrmions and their current-driven dynamics in ultrathin metallic ferromagnets. Nature materials 15, 501 (2016)
  S. Woo, K. Litzius, B. Krüger, M. Y. Im, L. Caretta, K. Richter, M. Mann, A. Krone, R. M. Reeve, M. Weigand, P. Agrawal, I. Lemesh, M. A. Mawass, P. Fischer, M. Kläui and G. S. D. Beach
  
• Self-amplified photo-induced gap quenching in a correlated electron material. Nat Commun 7, 12902 (2016)
  S. Mathias, S. Eich, J. Urbancic, S. Michael, A. V. Carr, S. Emmerich, A. Stange, T. Popmintchev, T. Rohwer, M. Wiesenmayer, A. Ruffing, S. Jakobs, S. Hellmann, P. Matyba, C. Chen, L. Kipp, M. Bauer, H. C. Kapteyn, H. C. Schneider, K. Rossnagel, M. M. Murnane and M. Aeschlimann
  
• Supercurrent in a room-temperature Bose- Einstein magnon condensate. Nature Physics 12, 1057-1062 (2016)
  D. A. Bozhko, A. A. Serga, P. Clausen, V. I. Vasyuchka, F. Heussner, G. A. Melkov, A. Pomyalov, V. S. L'vov and B. Hillebrands
  
• Direct imaging of delayed magneto-dynamic modes induced by surface acoustic waves. Nature Communications 8, 407 (2017)
  M. Foerster, F. Macià, N. Statuto, S. Finizio, A. Hernández-Mínguez, S. Lendínez, P. V. Santos, J. Fontcuberta, J. M. Hern´àndez, M. Kläui and L. Aballe
  
• Measuring finite-range phase coherence in an optical lattice using Talbot interferometry. Nat Commun 8, 15601 (2017)
  B. Santra, C. Baals, R. Labouvie, A. B. Bhattacherjee, A. Pelster and H. Ott
  
• Momentum Distribution of Electrons Emitted from Resonantly Excited Individual Gold Nanorods. Nano Lett 17, 6606-6612 (2017)
  M. Lehr, B. Foerster, M. Schmitt, K. Kruger, C. Sonnichsen, G. Schonhense and H. J. Elmers
  
• Nonergoclic diffusion of single atoms in a periodic potential. Nature Physics 13, 137-141 (2017)
  F. Kindermann, A. Dechant, M. Hohmann, T. Lausch, D. Mayer, F. Schmidt, E. Lutz and A. Widera
  
• Quantum tunnelling and charge accumulation in organic ferroelectric memory diodes. Nat Commun 8, 15741 (2017)
  M. Ghittorelli, T. Lenz, H. Sharifi Dehsari, D. Zhao, K. Asadi, P. W. M. Blom, Z. M. Kovacs-Vajna, D. M. de Leeuw and F. Torricelli
  
• Secondary-Structure-Driven Self-Assembly of Reactive Polypept(o)ides: Controlling Size, Shape, and Function of Core Cross-Linked Nanostructures. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 56, 9608-9613 (2017)
  K. Klinker, O. Schafer, D. Huesmann, T. Bauer, L. Capeloa, L. Braun, N. Stergiou, M. Schinnerer, A. Dirisala, K. Miyata, K. Osada, H. Cabral, K. Kataoka and M. Barz
  
• Skyrmion Hall effect revealed by direct timeresolved X-ray microscopy. Nature Physics 13, 170 (2017)
  K. Litzius, I. Lemesh, B. Krüger, P. Bassirian, L. Caretta, K. Richter, F. Büttner, K. Sato, O. A. Tretiakov, J. Förster, R. M. Reeve, M. Weigand, I. Bykova, H. Stoll, G. Schütz, G. S. D. Beach and M. Kläui
  
• Structure and reactivity of a mononuclear gold(II) complex. Nat Chem 9, 1249-1255 (2017)
  S. Preiss, C. Forster, S. Otto, M. Bauer, P. Muller, D. Hinderberger, H. Hashemi Haeri, L. Carella and K. Heinze
  
• Controlling the Polymer Microstructure in Anionic Polymerization by Compartmentalization. Angewandte Chemie International Edition English 57, 2483- 2487 (2018)
  E. Rieger, J. Blankenburg, E. Grune, M. Wagner, K. Landfester and F. R. Wurm
  
• Current-Induced Skyrmion Generation through Morphological Thermal Transitions in Chiral Ferromagnetic Heterostructures. Advanced Materials 30, 1805461 (2018)
  I. Lemesh, K. Litzius, M. Böttcher, P. Bassirian, N. Kerber, D. Heinze, J. Zázvorka, F. Büttner, L. Caretta, M. Mann, M. Weigand, S. Finizio, J. Raabe, M.-Y. Im, H. Stoll, G. Schütz, B. Dupé, M. Kläui and G. S. D. Beach
  
• Deuterated Molecular Ruby with Record Luminescence Quantum Yield. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 57, 1112-1116 (2018)
  C. Wang, S. Otto, M. Dorn, E. Kreidt, J. Lebon, L. Srsan, P. Di Martino-Fumo, M. Gerhards, U. Resch-Genger, M. Seitz and K. Heinze
  
• Electrifying Organic Synthesis. Angew Chem Int Ed Engl 57, 5594-5619 (2018)
  S. R. Waldvogel, A. Wiebe, T. Gieshoff, S. Mohle, E. Rodrigo and M. Zirbes
  
• Experimental realization of a Rydberg optical Feshbach resonance in a quantum many-body system. Nature Communications 9, 2238 (2018)
  O. Thomas, C. Lippe, T. Eichert and H. Ott
  
• Femtosecond formation dynamics of the spin Seebeck effect revealed by terahertz spectroscopy. Nature Communications 9, 2899 (2018)
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