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 16, 2010 and October 15, 2011. With this award, remarkably successful cooperation projects within CeNS as well as outstanding research of an individual research group of CeNS are distinguished.

The winning publications (random order):

 

Jae-Hyung Jeon, Vincent Tejedor, Stas Burov, Eli Barkai, Christine Selhuber-Unkel, Kirstine Berg-Sørensen, Lene Oddershede, and Ralf Metzler
In Vivo Anomalous Diffusion and Weak Ergodicity Breaking of Lipid Granules
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 048103 (2011)

 

Börn Meier, Alejandro Zielinski, Christoph Weber, Delphine Arcizet, Simon Youssef, Thomas Franosch, Joachim O. Rädler, and Doris Heinrich
Chemotactic Cell Trapping in Controlled Alternating Gradient Fields
PNAS 108, 11417 (2011)

 

Hakan E. Türeci, Markus Hanl, Martin Claassen, Andreas Weichselbaum, Theresa Hecht, Bernd Braunecker, Alexander Govorov, Leonid Glazman, Jan von Delft, and Atac Imamoglu
Many-Body Dynamics of Exciton Creation in a Quantum Dot by Optical Absorption: A Quantum Quench towards Kondo Correlations
Phys. Rev. Lett. 106, 107402 (2011)

 

Benedikt Obermayer, Hubert Krammer, Dieter Braun, and Ulrich Gerland
Emergence of Information Transmission in a Prebiotic RNA Reactor
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 018101 (2011)

 

Leonhard Prechtel, Li Song, Stephan Manus, Dieter Schuh, Werner Wegscheider, and Alexander W. Holleitner
Time-Resolved Picosecond Photocurrents in Contacted Carbon Nanotubes
Nano Lett. 11 (1), pp 269-272 (2011)

 

Holger Hesse, Jonas Weickert, Christian Hundschell, Xinliang Feng, Klaus Müllen, Bert Nickel, Attila J. Mozer, and Lukas Schmidt-Mende
Perylene Sensitization of Fullerenes for Improved Performance in Organic Photovoltaics
Advanced Energy Materials, 1, Issue 5, pp 862-869 (2011)

 

Oliver Viehmann, Jan von Delft, and Florian Marquardt
Superradiant Phase Transitions and the Standard Description of Circuit QED
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 113602 (2011)

 

Christoph J. Wienken, Philipp Baaske, Ulrich Rothbauer, Dieter Braun, and Stefan Duhr
Protein-Binding Assays in Biological Liquids Using Microscale Thermophoresis
Nature Communications, 1, Article number: 100, Oct. 19 (2010)

 

Simone Köhler, Volker Schaller, and Andreas R. Bausch
Structure Formation in Active Networks
Nature Materials, 10, pp 462468 (2011)

 

Florian Huth, Martin Schnell, Jesper Wittborn, Nenad Ocelic, and Rainer Hillenbrand
Infrared-Spectroscopic Nanoimaging with a Thermal Source
Nature Materials, 10, pp 352356 (2011)

 

Christophe Jung, Peter Schwaderer, Mark Dethlefsen, Ralf Köhn, Jens Michaelis, and Christoph Bräuchle
Visualization of the Self-Assembly of Silica Nanochannels Reveals Growth Mechanism
Nature Nanotechnology, 6, pp 8792 (2011)

 

Ingo H. Stein, Verena Schüller, Philip Böhm, Philip Tinnefeld, and Tim Liedl
Single-Molecule FRET Ruler Based on Rigid DNA Origami Blocks
ChemPhysChem, 12, Issue 3, pp 689695 (2011)

 

Daniel A. Fuhrmann, Susanna M. Thon, Hyochul Kim, Dirk Bouwmeester, Pierre M. Petroff, Achim Wixforth, and Hubert J. Krenner
Dynamic Modulation of Photonic Crystal Nanocavities Using Gigahertz Acoustic Phonons
Nature Photonics, 5, pp 605609 (2011)

 

Axel Schlossbauer, Christian Dohmen, David Schaffert, Ernst Wagner, and Thomas Bein
pH-Responsive Release of Acetal-Linked Melittin from SBA-15 Mesoporous Silica
Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 50, Issue 30, pp6828-6830 (2011)

 

Julien Guizetti, Lothar Schermelleh, Jana Mäntler, Sandra Maar, Ina Poser, Heinrich Leonhardt, Thomas Müller-Reichert, and Daniel W. Gerlich
Cortical Constriction during Abscission Involves Helices of ESCRT-IIIDependent Filaments
Science, 331 no. 6024 pp 1616-1620 (2011)

 

Ralf Jungmann, Christian Steinhauer, Max Scheible, Anton Kuzyk, Philip Tinnefeld, and Friedrich Simmel
Single-Molecule Kinetics and Super-Resolution Microscopy by Fluorescence Imaging of Transient Binding on DNA Origami
Nano Lett., 10 (11), pp 47564761 (2010)

 

Michael Fedoruk, Andrey A. Lutich, and Jochen Feldmann
Subdiffraction-Limited Milling by an Optically Driven Single Gold Nanoparticle
ACS Nano, 5 (9), pp 73777382 (2011)

 

Viola Baumgärtel, Sergey Ivanchenko, Aurélie Dupont, Mikhail Sergeev, Paul W. Wiseman, Hans-Georg Kräusslich, Christoph Bräuchle, Barbara Müller, and Don C. Lamb
Live-Cell Visualization of Dynamics of HIV Budding Site Interactions with an ESCRT Component
Nature Cell Biology, 13, pp 469-474 (2011)

 

Moritz Marcinowski, Matthias Höller, Matthias J Feige, Danae Baerend, Don C. Lamb, and Johannes Buchner
Substrate Discrimination of the Chaperone BiP by Autonomous and Cochaperone-Regulated Conformational Transitions
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology, 18, pp 150-158 (2011)

 

Anna Melbinger, Jonas Cremer, and Erwin Frey
Evolutionary Game Theory in Growing Populations
Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 178101 (2010)

 

Ann R. Fornof, Matthias Erdmann, Ralf David, and Hermann E. Gaub
Electric Glue: Electrically Controlled Polymer-Surface Adhesion
Nano Lett., 11 (5), pp 1993-1996 (2011)