Winners of the CeNS Publication Award 2015

On Friday, November 27th, the winners of this year's CeNS Publication Awards were announced to the CeNS members during a festive event. Eleven awards were presented in the categories "Best Interdisciplinary Publication", "Scientific Breakthrough" and "Best Junior Scientist Publication". With this award, remarkably successful cooperation projects within CeNS as well as outstanding research of an individual research group of CeNS were distinguished.

Each year, CeNS awards prizes for excellent publications of CeNS members which have been published during the past 12 months. This year, the candidates submitted numerous articles which appeared in high-impact journals between October 2014 and October 2015.

Publication Award Winners 2015 (by category, in random order):

Best interdisciplinary publication

Tao Zhang, Andre Neumann, Jessica Lindlau, Yuzhou Wu, Goutam Pramanik, Boris Naydenov, Fedor Jelezko, Florian Schüder, Sebastian Huber, Marinus Huber, Florian Stehr, Alexander Högele, Tanja Weil and Tim Liedl
DNA-Based Self-Assembly of Fluorescent Nanodiamonds
J. Am. Chem. Soc.,  137 (31), pp 9776–9779 (2015)

Ryo Suzuki, Christoph A. Weber, Erwin Frey and Andreas Bausch
Polar Pattern Formation in Driven Filament Systems Require Non-Binary Particle Collisions
Nature Physics 11, 839–843 (2015)

Mona Calik, Florian Auras, Laura M. Salonen, Kathrin Bader, Irene Grill, Matthias Handloser, Dana D. Medina, Mirjam Dogru, Florian Löbermann, Dirk Trauner, Achim Hartschuh and Thomas Bein
Extraction of Photogenerated Electrons and Holes from a Covalent Organic Framework Integrated Heterojunction
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136 (51), pp 17802–17807 (2014)

Ellen Broda, Frauke Mickler, Ulrich Lächelt, Stephan Morys, Ernst Wagner and Christoph Bräuchle
Assessing potential peptide targeting ligands by quantification of cellular adhesion of model nanoparticles under flow conditions
Journal of Controlled Release 213, 79-85 (2015)

Scientific breakthrough

Katalin Szendrei, Pirmin Ganter, Olalla Sànchez-Sobrado, Roland Eger, Alexander Kuhn and Bettina V. Lotsch
Touchless Optical Finger Motion Tracking Based on 2D Nanosheets with Giant Moisture Responsiveness
Advanced Materials,  DOI: 10.1002/adma.201503463 (2015)

Johannes Knebel, Markus F. Weber, Torben Krüger and Erwin Frey
Evolutionary games of condensates in coupled birth-death processes
Nature Communications 6, 6977 (2015)

Moritz Kreysing, Lorenz Keil, Simon Lanzmich and Dieter Braun
Heat flux across an open pore enables the continuous replication and selection of oligonucleotides towards increasing length
Nature Chemistry 7, 203–208 (2015)

Florian J. R. Schülein, Eugenio Zallo, Paola Atkinson, Oliver G. Schmidt, Rinaldo Trotta, Armando Rastelli, Achim Wixforth and Hubert J. Krenner
Fourier synthesis of radiofrequency nanomechanical pulses with different shapes
Nature Nanotechnology 10, 512–516 (2015)

Best junior scientist publication

Fabian Baumann, Magnus Bauer, Lukas Milles, Alexander Alexandrovich, Hermann Gaub and Diana Pippig
Monovalent Strep-Tactin for strong and site-specific tethering in nanospectroscopy
Nature Nanotechnology, doi:10.1038/nnano.2015.231 (2015)

Constantin Schoeler, Klara H. Malinowska, Rafael C. Bernardi, Lukas F. Milles, Markus A. Jobst, Ellis Durner, Wolfgang Ott, Daniel B. Fried, Edward A. Bayer, Klaus Schulten, Hermann E. Gaub and Michael A. Nash
Ultrastable cellulosome-adhesion complex tightens under load
Nature Communications 5, Article number: 5635 (2015)

Madathumpady A. Habeeb Muhammed, Markus Döblinger and Jessica Rodríguez-Fernández
Switching Plasmons: Gold Nanorod−Copper Chalcogenide Core-Shell Nanoparticle Clusters with Selectable Metal/Semiconductor NIR Plasmon Resonances
J. Am. Chem. Soc., 137 (36), pp 11666–11677 (2015)