CHRISTIANE WENZEL

Research

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AFM based characterization of out-of-equilibrium materials 

 

Autonomous assembly of 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 (in Biology often nucleotides). 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.

   

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About me

 

​Since 10/2022: PhD student in the Hugel/ Balzer Lab

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04/2019 - 09/2022: M.Sc. in Chemistry at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg

Master thesis: Synthesen funktionalisierten Phthalocyanine zur Gewinnung von photodynamisch aktiven Antikörper-Phthalocyanin-Konjugaten in the group of Prof. Dr. Brückner at the Institute of Organic Chemistry

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10/2013 - 03/2019: B.Sc. in Chemistry at the Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg

Bachelor thesis: Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy: Temperature dependence of the streching behaviour of Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) in the group of Prof. Dr. Hugel

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Publications

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-2023-

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M. Lallemang, C. O. Akintayo, C. Wenzel, W. Chen, L. Sielaff, A. Ripp, H. J. Jessen, B. N. Balzer, A. Walther* & T. Hugel*

Hierarchical mechanical transduction of precision-engineered DNA hydrogels with sacrificial bonds

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 15 (51), 59714 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c15135

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M. Ibrahim, C. Wenzel, M. Lallemang, B. N. Balzer* & N. Schwierz*

Adsorbing DNA to mica by cations: influence of valency and ion type

Langmuir,  39 (44), 15553 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.3c01835

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M. Ibrahim, C. Wenzel, M. Lallemang, B. N. Balzer* & N. Schwierz*

Adsorbing DNA to mica by cations: influence of the valency and ion type

bioRxiv (2023). https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.06.30.547224

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-2020-

 A. Kolberg, C. Wenzel, T. Hugel, M. Gallei & B.N. Balzer*
Covalent attachment of single molecules for AFM-based force spectroscopy
J. Vis. Exp., 157, e60934 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3791/60934

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-2019-

A. Kolberg, C. Wenzel, K. Hackenstrass, R. Schwarzl, C. Rüttiger, T. Hugel*, M. Gallei, R.R. Netz* & B.N. Balzer*
Opposing temperature dependence of the stretching response of single PEG and PNiPAM polymers
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 141 (29), 11603 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.9b04383