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2020
High force catch bond mechanism of bacterial adhesion in the human gut Journal Article
In: Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020.
DNA origami-based single-molecule force spectroscopy elucidates RNA Polymerase III pre-initiation complex stability Journal Article
In: Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2020.
Self-Healing Dyes—Keeping the Promise? Journal Article
In: The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters, vol. 11, no. 11, pp. 4462–4480, 2020.
Impact of Cyanine Conformational Restraint in the Near-Infrared Range Journal Article
In: The Journal of Organic Chemistry, vol. 85, no. 9, pp. 5907–5915, 2020.

Self-Assembled Nanoparticle Optical Antennas Book Chapter
In: Sattler, Klaus D. (Ed.): 21st Century Nanoscience -- A Handbook, Chapter 8, pp. 8-1-8-14, CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida, 1, 2020, ISBN: 9780429351594.
Fluorophore photostability and saturation in the hotspot of DNA origami nanoantennas Journal Article
In: Methods and Applications in Fluorescence, vol. 8, no. 2, pp. 024003, 2020.
2019
Ultrafast Single-Molecule Fluorescence Measured by Femtosecond Double-Pulse Excitation Photon Antibunching Journal Article
In: Nano Letters, vol. 20, no. 2, pp. 1074–1079, 2019.
Directing Single-Molecule Emission with DNA Origami-Assembled Optical Antennas Journal Article
In: Nano Letters, vol. 19, no. 9, pp. 6629–6634, 2019.
Distance Dependence of Single-Molecule Energy Transfer to Graphene Measured with DNA Origami Nanopositioners Journal Article
In: Nano Letters, vol. 19, no. 7, pp. 4257–4262, 2019.
A new reporter design based on DNA origami nanostructures for quantification of short oligonucleotides using microbeads Journal Article
In: Scientific Reports, vol. 9, no. 1, 2019.
Plasmon-assisted Förster resonance energy transfer at the single-molecule level in the moderate quenching regime Journal Article
In: Nanoscale, vol. 11, no. 16, pp. 7674–7681, 2019.
Interchromophoric Interactions Determine the Maximum Brightness Density in DNA Origami Structures Journal Article
In: Nano Letters, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 1275–1281, 2019.
Benchmarking Smartphone Fluorescence-Based Microscopy with DNA Origami Nanobeads: Reducing the Gap toward Single-Molecule Sensitivity Journal Article
In: ACS Omega, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 637–642, 2019.
2018
Precision and accuracy of single-molecule FRET measurements—a multi-laboratory benchmark study Journal Article
In: Nature Methods, vol. 15, no. 9, pp. 669–676, 2018.
Axial Colocalization of Single Molecules with Nanometer Accuracy Using Metal-Induced Energy Transfer Journal Article
In: Nano Letters, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 2616–2622, 2018.
Site-Specific Labelling of Native Mammalian Proteins for Single-Molecule FRET Measurements Journal Article
In: ChemBioChem, vol. 19, no. 8, pp. 780–783, 2018.
Quantifying Expansion Microscopy with DNA Origami Expansion Nanorulers Journal Article
In: 2018.
Optical Voltage Sensing Using DNA Origami Journal Article
In: Nano Letters, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 1962–1971, 2018.
Strong plasmonic enhancement of single molecule photostability in silver dimer optical antennas Journal Article
In: Nanophotonics, vol. 7, no. 3, pp. 643–649, 2018.
Towards structural biology with super-resolution microscopy Journal Article
In: Nanoscale, vol. 10, no. 35, pp. 16416–16424, 2018.
Strong Plasmonic Enhancement of a Single Peridinin–Chlorophyll a–Protein Complex on DNA Origami-Based Optical Antennas Journal Article
In: ACS Nano, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 1650–1655, 2018.
Using DNA origami nanorulers as traceable distance measurement standards and nanoscopic benchmark structures Journal Article
In: Scientific Reports, vol. 8, no. 1, 2018.
2017
Sculpting light by arranging optical components with DNA nanostructures Journal Article
In: MRS Bulletin, vol. 42, no. 12, pp. 936–942, 2017.
Optical Nanoantenna for Single Molecule-Based Detection of Zika Virus Nucleic Acids without Molecular Multiplication Journal Article
In: Analytical Chemistry, vol. 89, no. 23, pp. 13000–13007, 2017.
Synergistic Combination of Unquenching and Plasmonic Fluorescence Enhancement in Fluorogenic Nucleic Acid Hybridization Probes Journal Article
In: Nano Letters, vol. 17, no. 10, pp. 6496–6500, 2017.
Molecule detection with sunlight Journal Article
In: Nature Photonics, vol. 11, no. 10, pp. 616–618, 2017.
A DNA Walker as a Fluorescence Signal Amplifier Journal Article
In: Nano Letters, vol. 17, no. 9, pp. 5368–5374, 2017.
Plasmonics Enhanced Smartphone Fluorescence Microscopy Journal Article
In: Scientific Reports, vol. 7, no. 1, 2017.
Generation of Recombinant Antibodies against the beta-(1,6)-Branched beta-(1,3)-D-Glucan Schizophyllan from Immunized Mice via Phage Display Journal Article
In: Biotechnology Research International, vol. 2017, pp. 1–8, 2017.
Broadband Fluorescence Enhancement with Self-Assembled Silver Nanoparticle Optical Antennas Journal Article
In: ACS Nano, vol. 11, no. 5, pp. 4969–4975, 2017.
Guide-independent DNA cleavage by archaeal Argonaute from Methanocaldococcus jannaschii Journal Article
In: Nature Microbiology, vol. 2, no. 6, 2017.
Shifting molecular localization by plasmonic coupling in a single-molecule mirage Journal Article
In: Nature Communications, vol. 8, no. 1, 2017.
Super genau lokalisiert - Eine neue Methode erlaubt es, Moleküle mittels weniger Photonen nanometergenau zu lokalisieren Journal Article
In: Physik Journal, vol. 16, no. 3, 2017.
2016
A Two-Component Regulatory System Impacts Extracellular Membrane-Derived Vesicle Production in Group A Streptococcus Journal Article
In: mBio, vol. 7, no. 6, 2016.
Repression of RNA polymerase by the archaeo-viral regulator ORF145/RIP Journal Article
In: Nature Communications, vol. 7, no. 1, 2016.
Molecular force spectroscopy with a DNA origami–based nanoscopic force clamp Journal Article
In: Science, vol. 354, no. 6310, pp. 305–307, 2016.
Fluorescent Nanodiamond–Gold Hybrid Particles for Multimodal Optical and Electron Microscopy Cellular Imaging Journal Article
In: Nano Letters, vol. 16, no. 10, pp. 6236–6244, 2016.
Superresolution microscopy with transient binding Journal Article
In: Current Opinion in Biotechnology, vol. 39, pp. 8–16, 2016.
DNA Origami Seesaws as Comparative Binding Assay Journal Article
In: ChemBioChem, vol. 17, no. 12, pp. 1093–1096, 2016.
Functionalizing large nanoparticles for small gaps in dimer nanoantennas Journal Article
In: New Journal of Physics, vol. 18, no. 4, pp. 045012, 2016.
TFE and Spt4/5 open and close the RNA polymerase clamp during the transcription cycle Journal Article
In: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, vol. 113, no. 13, pp. E1816–E1825, 2016.
Programming Light-Harvesting Efficiency Using DNA Origami Journal Article
In: Nano Letters, vol. 16, no. 4, pp. 2369–2374, 2016.
In: ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 1786–1794, 2016.
2015
DNA Origami Nanoantennas with over 5000-fold Fluorescence Enhancement and Single-Molecule Detection at 25 $upmu$M Journal Article
In: Nano Letters, vol. 15, no. 12, pp. 8354–8359, 2015.
The 2015 super-resolution microscopy roadmap Journal Article
In: Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, vol. 48, no. 44, pp. 443001, 2015.
Super-Resolution Imaging Conditions for enhanced Yellow Fluorescent Protein (eYFP) Demonstrated on DNA Origami Nanorulers Journal Article
In: Scientific Reports, vol. 5, no. 1, 2015.
Mapping molecules in scanning far-field fluorescence nanoscopy Journal Article
In: Nature Communications, vol. 6, no. 1, 2015.
Enzymatic characterization of recombinant nitrate reductase expressed and purified from Neurospora crassa Journal Article
In: Fungal Genetics and Biology, vol. 80, pp. 10–18, 2015.
Absolute Arrangement of Subunits in Cytoskeletal Septin Filaments in Cells Measured by Fluorescence Microscopy Journal Article
In: Nano Letters, vol. 15, no. 6, pp. 3859–3864, 2015.
Simple and aberration-free 4color-STED - multiplexing by transient binding Journal Article
In: Optics Express, vol. 23, no. 7, pp. 8630, 2015.