2023
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EPL, accepted (2023)
D.J. Simon. F. Hartmann, T. Thalheim, F. Cichos
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) Enhanced Nanomotors and Active Matter
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Spontaneous Vortex Formation by Microswimmers with Retarded Attractions
arXiv:2206.01576 (2022)
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Hydrodynamic Manipulation of Nano-Objects by Optically Induced Thermo-Osmotic Flows
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2021

Finite-Size Scaling at the Edge of Disorder in a Time-Delay Vicsek Model
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Hydrodynamic Manipulation of Nano-Objects by Thermo-Osmotic Flows
arXiv:2107.13830 (2021)
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Finite-Size Scaling at the Edge of Disorder in a Time-Delay Vicsek Model
arXiv:2107.06059 (2021)
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Thermotaxis of Janus Particles
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Towards Measuring the Maxwell–Boltzmann Distribution of a Single Heated Particle
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How Activity Landscapes Polarize Microswimmers Without Alignment Forces
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Polarization-Density Patterns of Active Particles in Motility Gradients
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arXiv:2103.15165 (2021)
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Reinforcement Learning with Artificial Microswimmers
Sci. Robot. 6, eabd9285 (2021)
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ACS Nano 15, 3434–3440 (2021)
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2020

Polarization-Density Patterns of Active Particles in Motility Gradients
arXiv:2010.16234 (2020)
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Enhanced Force-field Calibration via Machine Learning
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Active-Particle Polarization Without Alignment Forces
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Jarzynski Equality for Soret Equilibria – Virtues of Virtual Potentials
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Active Particle Feedback Control with a Single-Shot Detection Convolutional Neural Network
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Self-propulsion of Janus Particles near a Brush-functionalized Substrate
Langmuir 36, 7775–7780 (2020)
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arXiv:2006.08963 (2020)
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Applications and Challenges of Thermoplasmonics
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Convolutional Neural Networks for Real-Time Localization and Classification in Feedback Digital Microscopy
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Machine Learning for Active Matter
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2019

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Thermophoretic Trap for Single Amyloid Fibril and Protein Aggregation Studies
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Active Particles Bound by Information Flows
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Reinforcement Learning of Artificial Microswimmers
arXiv:1803.06425 (2018)
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arXiv:1803.03053 (2018)
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2017

Concept, Synthesis, and Structural Characterization of DNA Origami Based Self-thermophoretic Nanoswimmers
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Thermal Diffusivities Studied by Single-Particle Photothermal Deflection
ACS Photonics 4, 681–687 (2017)
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Manipulating Single and Multiple Biomolecules with Dynamic Temperature Fields
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2016

Exact Symmetries in the Velocity Fluctuations of a Hot Brownian Swimmer
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Hot Microswimmers
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Polarization of Thermophoretic Swimmers in External Temperature Fields
Proc. SPIE 9922, 99221L (2016)
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Thermo-Osmotic Flow in Thin Films
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Thermophoretic Trapping and Manipulation of Single Molecules
Proc. SPIE 9922, 99220Z (2016)
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Twin-focus Photothermal Correlation Spectroscopy Method and Device for the Characterization of Dynamical Processes in Liquids and Biomaterials with the Help of Absorbing Markers
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2015

Comment on “Optimal Detection Angle in Sub-diffraction Resolution Photothermal Microscopy: Application for high Sensitivity Imaging of Biological Tissues”
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Single Molecules Trapped by Dynamic Inhomogeneous Temperature Fields
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Size Dependent Efficiency of Photophoretic Swimmers
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Thermal Diffusivity Measured Using a Single Plasmonic Nanoparticle
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Distortion of Power Law Blinking with Binning and Thresholding
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ACS Nano 8, 1893–1898 (2014)
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ACS Nano 8, 6542–6550 (2014)
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Fast Measurement of Photonic Stop Bands by Back Focal Plane Imaging
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Optically Controlled Thermophoretic Trapping of Single Nano-Objects
ACS Nano 7, 11200–11208 (2013)
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Photonic Rutherford Scattering: A Classical and Quantum Mechanical Analogy in Ray and Wave Optics
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Photothermal Signal Distribution Analysis (PhoSDA)
Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 15, 4250–4257 (2013)
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Photothermal Single Particle Rutherford Scattering Microscopy
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Twin-Focus Photothermal Correlation Spectroscopy
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Back Focal Plane Imaging Spectroscopy of Photonic Crystals
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Formation Principles and Ligand Dynamics of Nanoassemblies of CdSe Quantum Dots and Functionalized Dye Molecules
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Gaussian Beam Photothermal Single Particle Microscopy
J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 29, 2237−2241 (2012)
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Influence of the Dielectric Environment on the Photoluminescence Intermittency of CdSe Quantum Dots
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Ligand Exchange Dynamics and Temperature Effects upon Formation of Nanocomposites Based on Semiconductor CdSе/ZnS Quantum Dots and Porphyrins: Ensemble and Single Object Measurements
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Nano-lens Diffraction around a Single Heated Nano Particle
Opt. Express 20, 8055−8070 (2012)
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Photothermal Single-Particle Microscopy: Detection of a Nanolens
ACS Nano 6, 2741−2749 (2012)
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Slow Single Molecule Diffusion in Liquid Crystals
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Spectral Diffusion of Quasi Localized Excitons in Single Silicon Nanocrystals
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Generalised Einstein Relation for Hot Brownian Motion
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Temperature Dependent Single Molecule Rotational Dynamics in PMA
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Theory of Hot Brownian Motion
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Hot Brownian Motion
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Measuring Flow Profiles and Slip by Single Molecule Experiments in Thin Liquid Films
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Effects of Electron Tunneling and Nonresonance Quenching of Photoluminescence in Semiconducting CdSe/ZnS and CdSe Nanocrystals by Porphyrin Molecules in Joint Complexes
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Nanoscale Distance Fluctuations Probed by Photothermal Correlation Spectroscopy
Proc. SPIE 7185, 71850V (2009)
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Electron Wave Function Tunneling in Excited Nanocomposites Based on Semiconductor CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots and Porphyrins
Proc. VII International Conference on Laser Physics and Optical Technologies, Minsk, 228−231 (2008)

Electron−Phonon Coupling and Localization of Excitons in Single Silicon Nanocrystals
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Probing Wave Functions at Semiconductor Quantum-Dot Surfaces by Non-FRET Photoluminescence Quenching
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2007

Common Luminescence Intensity Fluctuations of Single Particle and Single Molecules in Non-conducing Matrices
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Identification and Assignment of Porphyrin–CdSe Heteronanoassemblies
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Synthesis, Solvatochromism, and Photophysical Properties of the Polymer-Tetherable 3-[4-di (2-hydroxyethyl)amino] phenyl-l-(2-furyl)-2-propene-l-one
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A Modified Surface Forces Apparatus for Single Molecule Tracking
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Imaging Single Quantum Dots in Three-Dimensional Photonic Crystals
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Intrinsic Photophysics of Semiconductor Nanocrystals in Dielectric Media: Formation of Surface States
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Photophysical Properties of Self-Aggregated Porphyrin: Semiconductor Nanoassemblies
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Variation of Power-Law Dynamics Caused by Dark State Recovery of Fluorescence Intermittency of a Single Quantum System
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2005

Blinking of Single Dye Molecules in Various Environments
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Confocal Microscopy of Electrostatic Properties of Si Quantum Dots and Silica Surfaces by Charge-Sensitive Dye Molecules
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Correlation Between Photoluminescence Intermittency of CdSe Quantum Dots and Self-trapped States in Dielectric Media
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Defocused Wide Field Fluorescence Imaging of Single CdSe/ZnS Quantum Dots
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Fabrication and Primary Photoevents in Self-Assembled Nanocomposites Based on Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Tetrapyrrole Chromophores
Proc. SPIE 6002, 60020Z (2005)
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Fluorescence Blinking in MEH-PPV Single Molecules at Low Temperature
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Investigation of Tetherable Distilbazolium Compounds as Fluorescent Probes in Nanostructured Silica Sol-gel Materials
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Large Spectral Diffusion of Conjugated Polymer Single Molecule Fluorescence at Low Temperature
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Nanoassemblies Designed from Semiconductor Quantum Dots and Molecular Arrays
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Spectral and Angular Redistribution of Photoluminescence near a Photonic Stop Band
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Time Resolved Photoluminescence Anisotropy of CdSe/ZnS Nanoparticles in Toluene at 300K
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Characterizing the Non-stationary Blinking of Silicon Nanocrystals
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Diffusion in Ultrathin Liquid Films
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Direct Exciton Quenching in Single Molecules of MEH-PPV at 77 K
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Emission Intermittency in Silicon Nanocrystals
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Spectroscopy of Single Silicon Nanoparticles
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Anisotropic Diffusion of Single Molecules in Thin Liquid Films
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Optical Spectroscopy of Single Quantum Dots
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Diffusion Measurements by Single-Molecule Spot-Size Analysis
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Nanostructured Films Composed of Silicon Nanoparticles
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Coupled Molecular Dynamics/Semiempirical Simulation of Organic Solutes in Polar Liquid: I. Naphthalene in Acetonitrile
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Coupled Molecular Dynamics/Semiempirical Simulation of Organic Solutes in Polar Liquids: II. Coumarin 153 in Methanol and Acetonitrile
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Observation of Single Molecule Diffusion in Micro- and Nanodroplets of Polymers on Surfaces
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2000

Diffusion of Single Molecules Close to Interfaces
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1999

Molecular Dynamics Simulations of the Solvation of Coumarin 153 in a Mixture of an Alkane and an Alcohol
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Solvation Dynamics in Mixtures of Polar and Nonpolar Solvents
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Measurement of Cathode Spot Parameters with Pulsed Laser Diagnostics
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