Publications de Stephan Rauschenbach

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Electrospray ion beam deposition and mass spectrometry of nonvolatile molecules and nanomaterials

The vacuum deposition of complex functional molecules and nanoparticles by thermal sublimation is often hindered due to their extremely low vapor pressure. This especially impedes the application of ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) based analytical and surface modif ...

EPFL2008

Catalyzing Bond-Dissociation in Graphene via Alkali-Iodide Molecules

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb, Sven Alexander Szilagyi, Hannah Julia Ochner

Atomic design of a 2D-material such as graphene can be substantially influenced by etching, deliberately induced in a transmission electron microscope. It is achieved primarily by overcoming the threshold energy for defect formation by controlling the kine ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2021

Active Conformation Control of Unfolded Proteins by Hyperthermal Collision with a Metal Surface

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Gordon Rinke

The physical and chemical properties of macromolecules like proteins are strongly dependent on their conformation. The degrees of freedom of their chemical bonds generate a huge conformational space, of which, however, only a small fraction is accessible i ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Low-energy electron holography imaging of conformational variability of single-antibody molecules from electrospray ion beam deposition

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb, Sven Alexander Szilagyi, Hannah Julia Ochner

Imaging of proteins at the single-molecule level can reveal conformational variability, which is essential for the understanding of biomolecules. To this end, a biologically relevant state of the sample must be retained during both sample preparation and i ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

Soft-landing electrospray ion beam deposition of sensitive oligoynes on surfaces in vacuum

Klaus Kern, Holger Frauenrath, Stephan Rauschenbach, Stephen Schrettl, Gordon Rinke, Tobias Hoheisel

Characterizing the complex structure of such molecules with highly resolving, vacuum-based methods like scanning probe microscopy requires their transfer into the gas phase and further onto an atomically clean surface in ultrahigh vacuum without causing ad ...

Elsevier2015

Toward mechanical switching of surface-adsorbed [2]catenane by in situ copper complexation

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Dietmar Payer

Using scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), electrospray ionization mass spectrometry (ESI-MS), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), we demonstrate that a free (2]catenane consisting of two interlocking 30-membered rings (cat-30) can be deposited on ...

2007

A Close Look at Proteins: Submolecular Resolution of Two- and Three-Dimensionally Folded Cytochrome c at Surfaces

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Gordon Rinke

Imaging of individual protein molecules at the single amino acid level has so far not been possible due to the incompatibility of proteins with the vacuum environment necessary for high-resolution scanning probe microscopy. Here we demonstrate electrospray ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2012

Phase Reconstruction of Low-Energy Electron Holograms of Individual Proteins

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sven Alexander Szilagyi, Hannah Julia Ochner

Low-energy electron holography (LEEH) is one of the few techniques capable of imaging large and complex three-dimensional molecules, such as proteins, on the single molecule level at subnanometer resolution. During the imaging process, the structural infor ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Two-dimensional honeycomb network through sequence-controlled self-assembly of oligopeptides

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb

The sequence of a peptide programs its self-assembly and hence the expression of specific properties through non-covalent interactions. A large variety of peptide nanostructures has been designed employing different aspects of these non-covalent interactio ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

The classical and quantum dynamics of molecular spins on graphene

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard, Stephan Rauschenbach

Controlling the dynamics of spins on surfaces is pivotal to the design of spintronic(1) and quantum computing(2) devices. Proposed schemes involve the interaction of spins with graphene to enable surface-state spintronics(3,4) and electrical spin manipulat ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Self-assembly of bis(phthalocyaninato) terbium on metal surfaces

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sebastian Stepanow

Single-molecule magnets represent the smallest stable magnetic entities available to technology, with promising applications in data storage and quantum computation in sight. Therefore, an interface between devices and single-molecule magnets must be devel ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Visualizing Chiral Interactions in Carbohydrates Adsorbed on Au(111) by High-Resolution STM Imaging

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Uta Schlickum

Carbohydrates are the most abundant organic material on Earth and the structural "material of choice" in many living systems. Nevertheless, design and engineering of synthetic carbohydrate materials presently lag behind that for protein and nucleic acids. ...

Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH2023

A hydrodynamically optimized nano-electrospray ionization source and vacuum interface

Klaus Kern, Mark Pauly, Stephan Rauschenbach, Gordon Rinke

The coupling of atmospheric pressure ionization (API) sources like electrospray ionization (ESI) to vacuum based applications like mass spectrometry (MS) or ion beam deposition (IBD) is done by differential pumping, starting with a capillary or pinhole inl ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2014

Atomic-Scale Observation of Multiconformational Binding and Energy Level Alignment of Ruthenium-Based Photosensitizers on TiO2 Anatase

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sebastian Stepanow, Feliciano Giustino, Gordon Rinke, Christopher Seiji Kley, Christian Alexander Stephan Dette

Dye-sensitized solar cells constitute a promising approach to sustainable and low-cost solar energy conversion. Their overall efficiency crucially depends on the effective coupling of the photosensitizers to the photoelectrode and the details of the dye's ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

The Quantum Magnetism of Individual Manganese-12-Acetate Molecular Magnets Anchored at Surfaces

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Markus Ternes, Gordon Rinke

The high intrinsic spin and long spin relaxation time of manganese-12-acetate (Mn-12) makes it an archetypical single molecular magnet. While these characteristics have been measured on bulk samples, questions remain whether the magnetic properties replica ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2012

Landing Proteins on Graphene Trampoline Preserves Their Gas-Phase Folding on the Surface

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sven Alexander Szilagyi, Hannah Julia Ochner

Molecule-surface collisions are known to initiate dynamics that lead to products inaccessible by thermal chemistry. These collision dynamics, however, have mostly been examined on bulk surfaces, leaving vast opportunities unexplored for molecular collision ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2023

Exploring the Molecular Conformation Space by Soft Molecule- Surface Collision

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb

Biomolecules function by adopting multiple conformations. Such dynamics are governed by the conformation landscape whose study requires characterization of the ground and excited conformation states. Here, the conformational landscape of a molecule is samp ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Grafting Crown Ether Alkali Host-Guest Complexes at Surfaces by Electrospray Ion Beam Deposition

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach

The functionalization of surfaces with host guest compounds is promising for many applications, yet often limited by constraints such as the volatility of the functional compound or the lack of binding to the surface. We use electrospray ion beam depositio ...

2010

Chemical Modification of Graphene via Hyperthermal Molecular Reaction

Klaus Kern, Marko Burghard, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb, Gordon Rinke

Chemical functionalization of graphene is achieved by hyperthermal reaction with azopyridine molecular ions. The one-step, room temperature process takes place in high vacuum (10(7) mbar) using an electrospray ion beam deposition (ES-IBD) setup. For ion su ...

Amer Chemical Soc2014

Bottom up fabrication of (9,0) zigzag and (6,6) armchair carbon nanotube end-caps on the Rh(111) surface

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach

The exploration and wide application of single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) require the development of new synthetic approaches enabling facile and fully rational CNT fabrication. In this communication the conversion of two precursors yielding the pote ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015