Bio- and Nanoelectronics

Bio- and Nanoelectronics Group

Prof. Dr. Marc Tornow 

News

• press release 17/02/2010: Von der Siliziumtechnik zur molekularen Elektronik

Research

• integrating molecular electronics into semiconductor technology

• electrical manipulation of biomolecules on surfaces and in nanopores

• functionalized silicon nanowires for biosensing applications

• high-resolution nanoimprint and nanotransfer printing

• Prof. Dr. Marc Tornow

• Achyut Bora, PhD

• Anna Szwajca, PhD

• Vedran Bandalo

• Ihab Schukfeh

• Anshuma Pathak

• Ricardo Matias Trujillo

 

Selected Publications 

• Ulrich Rant, Kenji Arinaga, Shozo Fujita, Naoki Yokoyama, Gerhard Abstreiter, and Marc Tornow
  Electrical Manipulation of Oligonucleotides Grafted to Charged Surfaces 
  Org. Biomol. Chem. 4, 3448–3455 (2006)
  Invited paper for a themed issue on ‘DNA-Based Nano-Architectures and Nano-Machines’  

• S. M. Luber, F. Zhang, S. Lingitz, A. G. Hansen, F. Scheliga, E. Thorn-Csányi, M. Bichler, M.Tornow
  High-Aspect Ratio Nanogap Electrodes for Averaging Molecular Conductance Measurements
  Small 3, 285 – 289 (2007)  

• Ulrich Rant, Kenji Arinaga, Simon Scherer, Erika Pringsheim, Shozo Fujita, Naoki Yokoyama, Marc Tornow, and Gerhard Abstreiter
  Switchable DNA interfaces for the highly sensitive detection of label-free DNA targets
  PNAS 104, 17364–17369 (2007)  

• M. Tornow , K. Arinaga, U. Rant
  Electrical Manipulation of DNA on Metal Surfaces
  O. Shoseyov and I. Levy (Eds.), Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, USA, p. 187-214 (2008)
  Invited book article in “NanoBioTechnology: BioInspired Devices and Materials of the Future"  

• A. Cattani-Scholz, D. Pedone, M. Dubey, S. Neppl, B. Nickel, P. Feulner, J. Schwartz, G. Abstreiter, M. Tornow
  Organophosphonate based PNA-functionalization of silicon nanowires for label-free DNA detection
  ACS Nano 2, 1653–1660 (2008)
  Winner of a 2008 CeNS Publication Award, Center of Nanoscience (CeNS), LMU, Munich; Highlighted “In Nano” (ACS Nano 2, 1507 (2008)) and as invited ACS Nano Podcast Interview, Episode 13 (8/2008): http://pubs.acs.org/journals/ancac3/podcasts/index.html

• Sebastian Strobel, Rocío Murcia Hernández, Allan G. Hansen, and Marc Tornow
  Silicon based nanogap device for studying electrical transport phenomena in molecule-nanoparticle hybrids
  Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter (JPCM) 20, 374126 (2008)
  Invited article for a special issue on “Charge Transport in Nanoscale Junctions”

• K. Buchholz, A. Tinazli, A. Kleefen, D. Dorfner, D. Pedone, U. Rant, R. Tampé, G. Abstreiter, M. Tornow
  Silicon-on-Insulator based nanopore cavity arrays for lipid membrane investigation
  Nanotechnology 19, 445305 (2008) 

• Sebastian Strobel, Stefan Harrer, Guillermo Penso Blanco, Giuseppe Scarpa, Gerhard Abstreiter, Paolo Lugli, Marc TornowPlanar Nanogap Electrodes by Direct Nanotransfer Printing Small 5, 579 – 582 (2009)

• Roar Søndergaard, Sebastian Strobel, Eva Bundgaard, Kion Norrman, Allan G. Hansen, Edgar Albert, Gyorgy Csaba, Paolo Lugli, Marc Tornow, Frederik C. Krebs Conjugated 12 nm long oligomers as molecular wires in nanoelectronics J. Mater. Chem. 19, 3899 (2009)

Teaching

Grundlagen der Elektronik

Advanced Electronic Devices
Bio- und Nanoelektronische Systeme 1 und 2

Molekulare Elektronik 

Labor Bio-Nano-Systems

Funding