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Chemical Analysis of Complex Surface-Adsorbed Molecules and Their Reactions by Means of Cluster-Induced Desorption/lonization Mass Spectrometry

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Sabine Abb, Gordon Rinke

2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Electrospray Ion Beam Deposition of Complex Non-Volatile Molecules

Gordon Rinke

The rational synthesis of novel materials requires the control over the arrangement of matter in order to meet the desired properties for applications and devices. Ultimately, control means to define the place of each atom and determine its chemical state, ...

EPFL2013

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

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Gordon Rinke, Nicha Thontasen

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

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

Klaus Kern, Markus Ternes, Stephan Rauschenbach, Gordon Rinke, Nicha Thontasen

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

Crystalline Inverted Membranes Grown on Surfaces by Electrospray Ion Beam Deposition in Vacuum

Klaus Kern, Stephan Rauschenbach, Ralf Thomas Weitz, Theresa Lutz, Giovanni Costantini, Gordon Rinke, Nicha Thontasen

Wiley2012