Christiane Wenzel

Project

AFM based characterization of out-of-equilibrium materials
The autonomous assembly of molecular building blocks into structures is a common process in living systems, for example in microtubules. This self-assembly process is often controlled by the concentration of the building blocks and chemical fuels (often nucleotides in Biology). My objective is to investigate the out-of-equilibrium assembly in an artificial peptide-based system via atomic force microscopy (AFM) imaging in real time.

First supervisor

Prof. Dr. Thorsten Hugel

Publications in livMatS

• Hierarchical Mechanical Transduction of Precision-Engineered DNA Hydrogels with Sacrificial Bonds*
  Lallemang, M., Akintayo, C. O., Wenzel, C., Chen, W., Sielaff, L., Ripp, A., Jessen, H. J., Bizan N., Walther, A. & Hugel, T. (2023). Hierarchical Mechanical Transduction of Precision-Engineered DNA Hydrogels with Sacrificial Bonds. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. doi: 10.1021/acsami.3c15135
• Adsorbing DNA to Mica by Cations: Influence of Valency and Ion Type*
  Ibrahim, M., Wenzel, C., Lallemang, M., Balzer, B. N., & Schwierz, N. (2023). Adsorbing DNA to Mica by Cations: Influence of Valency and Ion Type. Langmuir. doi: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01835.