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2023

2023/11: We developed dual-layer carbon nitride photoelectrodes for C–H functionalization. These metal-free thin films enable very clean photoelectrochemical reactions: Just shine light and switch on the voltage! Congratulations, Junfang & Sasha, great team effort! Out now in Nature Communications: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-42851-w

2023/09: Our contribution to sustainability: We developed temperature-stable, recyclable fluorescent nanoprobes for diagnostics. Congratulations, Yuxin! Big thanks to our collaboration partners Prof. Francesco Mutti and Prof. Hong Zhang from University of Amsterdam! Out now in Advanced Materials: https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202306615

2023/06: Congratulations, Dr. Jasmin Heidepriem, finishing with a great defense! Thank you for the fantastic journey together and seeing your development to a strong and independent researcher!

2023/06: Caramel against forgery? A sweet dream comes true! We developed an all-in-one printing method to generate sustainable and UV-stable fluorescent patterns from simple sugars. Out now in Nature Nanotechnology: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41565-023-01405-3 Congratulations to Junfang, showing an exceptional career!

2023/06: Sebastian won TWO Science Slams in a row, in front of >400 and >100 people! Congratulations, you really deserve these awards! Absolutely stunning, witty, and funny! https://twitter.com/FelixLoeffler/status/1672193566276304897?s=20

2023/06: Felix got highlighted by Angewandte Chemie. https://doi.org/10.1002/anie.202306960

2023/05: Congratulations, Dr. Alexandra Tsouka, to your outstanding PhD defense! It was a great pleasure!

2023/04: Lanthanide nanocomposites for customized tumor treatment. A promising strategy to treat multiple cancer sites individually in one IR irradiation step. Congratulation, Yuxin, to your work, published in Angewandte Chemie! https://doi.org/10.1002/ange.202303570

2023/03: Goodbye, Junfang, and all the best for your future! It was an incredible journey together. Watch out for Junfang, a rising star in research!

2023/02: PolyLIFT enables labeling of many substrates & in high resolution for fluorescent information storage. Now out in Advanced Functional Materials. Congratulations to your first first-author paper, Sebastian! https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202210116

2023/01: Welcome to the SAT group, Rong Tan!

2022

2022/12: Thank you, Alexandra, for the hard work and very successful PhD! We look forward to your PhD defense!

2022/10: We published our vapor-based activation approach for parallel glycosylation on membranes: VaporSPOT synthesis! Congratulations to Alex, Pietro, and the team! Out now in JACS: https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.2c07285

2022/09: Thank you, Jasmin, for your fruitful work as a PhD student! We look forward to your PhD defense! Best wishes for your next steps in industry!

2022/07: We are excited about this MERS corona vaccine study from our partners at UKE Hamburg in Nature Communications, where we have identified distinct spike epitopes in the boosted immune response of vaccinees! Great job, Jasmin & Grigori! https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31557-0

2022/05: Congratulations to Dr. Junfang Zhang for an outstanding PhD and defense! The best things are still to come!

2022/04: Goodbye, Grigori, and all the best! We are sure that you will very successfully continue your career in industry!

2022/04: After years of intense development, our robotic laser synthesizer for infectious disease microarrays can now be used to screen the full Ebola virus proteome in single amino acid resolution. Big CONGRATULATIONS to Grigori and Jasmin for publishing their work in Advanced Materials! https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202200359

2022/02: Our cover art was published as the inside front cover in Advanced Materials! https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202270060

2022/02: Stephan’s and Sanghwa’s paper on solvent-free polymer transfer onto hydrophilic/-phobic surfaces is published in Langmuir. Great job! https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02724

2022/01: With the New Carbonization Concepts group from the Colloid Chemistry department, we contributed to their laser-patterned carbon as high-performance mechanical sensors, published in npj Flexible Electronics. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41528-022-00136-0

2022/01: We say goodbye again to Dominik. Thanks for your work and all the best for your future!

2022/01: Junfang won the best student presentation award at the ISN2A 2022 conference in Caparaica, Portugal. Congratulations!

2022/01: Our theoretical model on the material deposition by laser-induced forward transfer is out. Congratulations, Grigori! https://doi.org/10.3390/app12031361

2021

2021/12: Fantastic news: Junfang found a new thin film preparation method to revolutionize our laser transfer process! Much higher resolution and rapid photochemistry are now possible in the microarray format! Collaboration with Nadja Tarakina & Nabyl Merbouh! Out now in Advanced Materials! https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202108493

2021/11: Welcome back, Dominik Bierbaum, for another research assistantship!

2021/11: Congratulations to Yuxin for getting his cover art accepted at Chemistry – A European Journal! https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202103902

2021/11: Congratulations to (now Dr.-Ing.) Grigori Paris for very successfully defending his PhD thesis! Great success!

2021/10: Pietro got a new job at Asparia Glycomics in San Sebastián. Thank you for the many ideas and projects. More publications coming soon. Fare well and all the best!

2021/10: Congratulations to Yuxin for publishing his first paper in our group! Great collaboration with Nabyl Merbouh from Simon Fraser University, Canada. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202103441

2021/10: Great job, Alexandra and Kassandra, for publishing our highly advanced multivalent microarray synthesis platform for lectin screening! Nice collaboration with Prof. Bernd Lepenies. https://doi.org/10.3389/fchem.2021.766932

2021/10: Kudos to Pietro and Valentina for publishing their automated glycan assembly of peptidoglycan fragments, together with Prof. Jon Laman, Uni Groningen, Netherlands! https://doi.org/10.1039/D1OB01987B

2021/09: Felix is back from four months of parental leave.

2021/06: Thank you for everything, Stephan, and congratulations to your new job at AKmira optronics!

2021/06: Our international project on Zika virus biomarker screening with partners from Brazil, USA, and Germany, was published RSC Med Chem! Check it out: https://doi.org/10.1039/D1MD00124H

2021/05: Big news, out in Nature Communications! Introducing a laser-driven approach to print sensitizers with desired morphologies and layer thickness on different substrates like glass, carbon, & carbon nitride in milliseconds. Congratulations to Junfang for her inspiring work and a big thank you to our colleague Aleksandr Savateev from Colloids Department! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23367-7

2021/04: Congratulations, Jasmin! Our SARS-CoV-2 peptide and glycan microarray study in collaboration with University Hospital Hamburg and CIC biomaGUNE is published: https://doi.org/10.3390/pathogens10040438

2021/04: Kassandra finished her internship. Thank you for the great work, publication will follow soon!

2021/03: Congratulations to Valentina, finishing her M.Sc. thesis. Thank you for the nice job, which will be part of our upcoming manuscript.

2021/02: Celina finished her Internship. Thank you for the nice work, we learned a lot.

2020

2020/12: Congratulations, Stephan, to your next publication! Smart idea to track heat by melting of alkanes, now out: https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202001626

2020/12: Dominik finished his internship. Hope to welcome you back at some point!

2020/12: Welcome, Yuxin Liu, to the SAT group as a new PhD student!

2020/11: In collaboration with the Colloid Chemistry department (Ilic, Liedel, Antonietti, Oschatz), we contributed to the development of sustainable cathodes! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/adsu.202000206

2020/10: Felix was selected to be a member of the Early Career Advisory Board of Chemistry – A European Journal. https://www.chemistryviews.org/details/advertorial/11270815/Chemistry__A_European_Journal_Installs_Early_Career_Advisory_Board.html

2020/10: The group's research was presented in a science slam at the Futurium in Berlin by Felix. https://www.werkstofftechnologien.de/veranstaltungen/buergergespraech-materialinnovationen-fuer-gesundheit-und-lebensqualitaet

2020/10: Welcome, Celina Lindner!

2020/09: Welcome, Dominik Bierbaum and Kassandra Hoetzel to your internships with the SAT group!

2020/09: Valentina Benazzi starts her M.Sc. thesis on the synthesis of glycans, supported by ERASMUS+. Benvenuto!

2020/09: We welcome Sanghwa Moon to her PhD work in the SAT group in collaboration with the group of Volker Strauß.

2020/09: Why peptide microarrays are great for rapid infectious disease research? Check out our review: https://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acs.jproteome.0c00484

2020/08: Our cover art for Chem Eur J was accepted: https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202003015

2020/07: Sebastian Ronneberger joins the team as a PhD student! Welcome!

2020/06: Best of Advanced Materials Technologies 2019: Our manuscript was highlighted by the editors. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/2365709x/homepage/best-of-advanced-materials-technologies-2019.html

2020/05: Our research in collaboration with the Becker and Addo labs on Ebola was published! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/biot.202000069

2020/05: Check out our new strategy on the synthesis of glycopeptide arrays from Marco and Alexandra. A collaboration with Alvaro Mallagaray (Lübeck) and the BMS department! https://chemistry-europe.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/chem.202001291

2020/04: Our preprint on screening Corona patients with full proteome peptide arrays is out! https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20059733v1

2020/03: Congratulations to Grigori for being selected for the 70th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting. https://www.lindau-nobel.org/

2020/01: Stunningly well-defined nanoparticles: Check out Junfang’s smart approach to synthesize silver nanodimers. https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.201904518

2019

2019/12: The yearly SAT group Christmas market meeting was a big success! https://twitter.com/FelixLoeffler/status/1201559087898595333

2019/12: Our cover art was accepted at Advanced Materials Technologies. Congratulations Stephan! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/admt.201970062

2019/11: High-speed camera observations and simulations let us understand our laser process in detail. Congrats, Grigori! Nice collaboration with the KIT Karlsruhe. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.144973

2019/10: Our DIY laser system was highlighted in the news. https://transkript.de/

2019/10: We developed a DIY laser system that enables everyone now to build their own microarrays. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/admt.201900503

2019/07: Welcome, Pietro, as a new member of the SAT group!

2019/07: Check out our review/perspective on how to prepare multivalent glycan arrays. Congratulations, Marco! https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2019/fd/c9fd00080a

2019/04: Our cover art was accepted and features the April issue of Molecular & Cellular Proteomics! https://www.mcponline.org/content/mcprot/18/4.cover.pdf

2019/03: We screened Malaria patients with microarrays for specific antibody epitopes. A great collaboration with the Heidelberg University Hospital and many others! https://www.mcponline.org/content/18/4/642.abstract

2019/02: A collaborative effort with arrays in a novel Lab on a Disc system was published. https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlehtml/2019/lc/c8lc00849c

2019/01: Our manuscript on laser-based synthesis of peptoid arrays is out! https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/marc.201800533

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