• Prof. Carsten Sönnichsen is "Top-Talent" (High Potentials in Science) in Germany, Capital
• Starting soon: Two Exchange programs with USA / Rice and Stanford, for WS 2013/14
• We've moved into new offices (new PC Building). Our new adress: Duesbergweg 10-14, 55128 Mainz. Please look at the map.
• New exchange program with Rice university/USAstarted
• Nano Science Award for Jan Becker's dissertation "Plasmons as sensors".
• Spot an in der Nanowelt: Struktur kleinster Kristalle wird sichtbar gemacht, Pressemitteilung.
• Sönnichsen receives ERC starting grant: see here and here

recent publications

• Angular Trapping of Anisometric Nano-Objects in a Fluid Nano Letters
• A New Approach to Assess Gold Nanoparticle Uptake by Mammalian Cells: Combining Optical Dark-Field and Transmission Electron Microscopy Small
• Single Unlabeled Protein Detection on Individual Plasmonic Nanoparticles Nano Letters
• ADT on Meso-Microporous Zeolite SCIENCE
• Perspective arcticle on plasmon rulers SCIENCE

selected publications

• A molecular ruler based on plasmon coupling of single gold and silver nanoparticles Nature Biotechnology
• Drastic reduction of plasmon damping in gold nanorods Physical Review Letters
• Biomolecular recognition based on single gold nanoparticle light scattering Nano Letters