Bittner, Alexander, Dr.
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Office: 4 C 20 Phone: 1433 Lab: 4 C 3 Phone: 1425/1438 Email: a.bittner Group: ChemNanoStruct Current occupation: Priv. Doz. |
Education
- Habil: Habilitation (Priv. Doz.) in Physical Chemistry, Universität Stuttgart, December 2004
- PhD: PhD degree (Dr. rer. nat.) in Chemistry, Freie Universität Berlin (Germany), July 1996
- MS: MSc degree (by research), University of East Anglia, Norwich (England), January 1993
- Diploma degree (Dipl. Ing. Chemie),Technische Hochschule Darmstadt (Germany), July 1991
- ERASMUS student, University of East Anglia, Norwich (England), 1989-90
- Chemistry studies, Technische Hochschule Darmstadt, (Germany), 1985-90
- Final examination (Abitur), Adolf-Reichwein-Gymnasium, Heusenstamm (Germany), June 1985
Current research interests
- Plant viruses as templates for inorganic nanostructures
- Semiconductor clusters on surfaces, photoluminescence
- Electrochemistry of carbon surfaces and activated carbon, supercapacitors
- Electrospinning
Academic Curriculum
12/2004:
Habilitation in the Physical
Chemistry department at Stuttgart
University, since 2005 Privatdozent
Since 09/1999:
Head of group "Chemical
Nanostructuring and Self-assembly" at the Max-Planck-Institut
für Festkörperforschung in Stuttgart.
10/1998 - 03/1999:
Scientific staff member in the nonlinear
optics/free
electron laser group of Dr. A. Tadjeddine, LURE-CLIO,
Orsay (France), largely financed by the Fondation
Nationale Alfred Kastler (France).
09/1996 - 09/1998 and 04/1999 - 08/1999:
Scientific staff
member
in the group of Prof. K. Kern, Institute
of Experimental Physics , Physics
Department,
at the Swiss Federal Institute of
Technology
Lausanne (EPFL, Switzerland), largely financed by a Feodor
Lynen-Stipendium
of the
Alexander von Humboldt-Gesellschaft
(Germany).
09/1992 - 08/1996:
Scientific collaborator in the STM
group of Prof. G. Ertl, Department
of Physical Chemistry, at Fritz-Haber-Institut
of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Berlin (Germany), partially
financed
by a Kekulé-Stipendium of Fonds
der Chemischen Industrie (Germany).
07/1991 - 08/1992:
MSc student in the group of Prof.
D.L. Andrews, School
of Chemical Sciences, University
of East Anglia, Norwich (England), financed by a grant of the German
Academic Exchange Service (DAAD).
10/1990 - 03/1991:
Diploma student in the group of Prof. K.G.
Weil, Department of
Chemistry,
Technische
Hochschule (Technical University) Darmstadt (Germany).
10/1989 - 06/1990:
ERASMUS
intra-European exchange student at the University
of East Anglia, Norwich (England).
10/1985 - 09/1989 and 07/1990 - 09/1990:
Chemistry studies
at
Technische
Hochschule (Technical University) Darmstadt (Germany).
06/1985:
Final examination (Abitur) at
Adolf-Reichwein-Gymnasium
(secondary school), Heusenstamm (Germany).
Research Topics:
- Electrochemistry: Electro(less) deposition of metals on flat and structured surfaces and on organic and biomolecules
- Biomolecules as Nanotemplates: Adsorption, modification and metallization of plant viruses
- Surface Structuring: Structuring of surfaces by self-assembly of molecules and by micro contact printing (µCP)
- (In)organic surface chemistry: Metal-ligand interactions at and in adsorbed molecules
- Porous Carbon: Structure and electrochemical properties
- 1D nanoobjects: Tubes and fibres built up by self-asssembly of (bio)molecules
- Methods: Scanning Tunnelling Microscopy (in situ), Scanning Force Microscopy ((non)contact / lateral force / in situ), electrochemical current/voltage techniques, (surface) spectroscopy (Sum Frequency Generation, infrared), ellipsometry, optical microscopy, plasma etching, contact angle measurement, handling of plant viruses, electrospinning
Publications
| 37 |
SAMs
of Alkyltriethoxysilanes on Silicon Wafers by Means of Casting Neat
Agents at
Room Temperature Y.A. Yang, A.M. Bittner, S. Baldelli, K. Kern, submitted |
| 36 |
Clusters on soft matter surfaces
(review) A.M. Bittner, Surf. Sci. Rep., accepted |
| 35 |
A
new SERS-active sandwich structure Y.A. Yang, A.M. Bittner, K.Kern, . Sol. State Electrochem., accepted |
| 34 |
Copper Nanowires
within the Central Channel of Tobacco Mosaic Virus Particles S. Balci, A.M. Bittner, K. Hahn, C. Scheu, M. Knez , A. Kadri, C. Wege, H. Jeske, K. Kern, Electrochim. Acta, accepted |
| 33 |
Investigating the lateral motion
of SiGe
islands by selective chemical etching G. Katsaros, A. Rastelli, M. Stoffel, G. Isella, H. von Känel, A.M. Bittner, U. Denker, O.G. Schmidt, G. Costantini, K. Kern, Surf. Sci., accepted |
| 32 |
Kinetic
origin of island
intermixing during the growth of Ge on Si(001) G. Katsaros, G. Costantini, M. Stoffel, R. Esteban, A. M. Bittner, A. Rastelli,U. Denker, O. G. Schmidt, K. Kern Phys. Rev. B 72 (2005) 1953201-1953206 |
| 31 |
Bottom-up
Synthesis and Top-Down
Organization of
Semiconductor and Metal Clusters on Surfaces A.M. Bittner, X.C. Wu, S. Balci, M. Knez, A. Kadri, K. Kern, Eur. J. Inorg. Chem. (2005) 3717-3728
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| 30 |
Biomolecular Rods and Tubes in Nanotechnology (review) A.M. Bittner, Naturwissenschaften 92 (2005) 51-64 |
29 |
Synthesis,
Photoluminescence and Adsorption
of
CdS/Dendrimer Nanocomposites |
| 28) |
Microcontact Printing of CdS/dendrimer
Nanocomposite Patterns on Silicon Wafers |
| 27) |
Spatially Selective Nucleation of Metal Clusters
at the Tobacco
Mosaic Virus |
| 26) |
Binding
the Tobacco Mosaic Virus to Inorganic Surfaces |
| 25) |
Chemical
Imaging of Interfaces by Sum-Frequency Generation Microscopy:
Application to Patterned Self-Assembled Monolayers |
| 24) |
Biotemplate Synthesis of 3 nm Nickel and
Cobalt
Nanowires |
| 23) |
Conformations of an
amino-amido-thiolate self-assembled layer on gold in air and in
electrolytes |
| 22) |
The effect of
annealing
conditions on the red photoluminescence of
nanocrystalline Si/SiO2 films |
| 21) | Electroless
Metallization of Dendrimer-Coated Micropatterns A.M. Bittner, X.C. Wu, K. Kern, Adv. Funct. Mater. 12 (2002) 432-436 |
| 20) | Spatially
Selective Electroless Deposition of Cobalt on Oxide Surfaces Directed
by
Microcontact Printing of Dendrimers X.C. Wu, A.M. Bittner, K. Kern, Langmuir 18 (2002) 4984-4988 |
| 19) | Electrochemical
modification of individual nano-objects M. Knez, M. Sumser, A.M. Bittner, C. Wege, H. Jeske, S. Kooi, M. Burghard, K. Kern, J. Electroanal. Chem. 522 (2002) 70-74 |
| 18) | Alkanethiolate
Reorientation during Metal Electrodeposition M. Epple, A.M. Bittner, K. Kuhnke, K. Kern, W.-Q. Zheng, A. Tadjeddine, Langmuir 18 (2002) 773-784 |
| 17) | Growth
of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes from Microcontact-Printed Catalyst
Patterns
on Thin Si3N4 Membranes G. Gu, G. Philipp, X. Wu, M. Burghard, A.M. Bittner, S. Roth, Adv. Funct. Mater. 11 (2001) 295-298 |
| 16) | Kinetic
oscillations of red photoluminescence from nanocrystalline Si/SiO2 films
X. Wu, A.M. Bittner, K. Kern, Ch. Eggs, S. Veprek, Appl. Phys. Lett. 77 (2000) 645-647 |
| 15) | Copper
electrodeposition on alkanethiolate covered gold electrodes O. Cavalleri, A.M. Bittner, H. Kind, K. Kern, T. Greber, Z. Phys. Chem. 208 (1999) 107-136 |
| 14) | Temperature-promoted
electrodeposition on thiolate-modified electrodes O. Cavalleri, H. Kind, A.M. Bittner, K. Kern, Langmuir 14 (1998) 7292-7297 |
| 13) | Electroless
deposition of metal nanoislands on aminothiolate-functionalized Au(111)
electrodes H. Kind, A.M. Bittner, O. Cavalleri, K. Kern, T. Greber, J. Phys. Chem.B 102 (1998) 7582-7589 |
| 12) | Nanoscale
Electrochemistry R. Schuster, V. Kirchner, X.H. Xia, A.M. Bittner, G. Ertl, Phys. Rev. Lett. 80 (1998) 5599-5602 |
| 11) | Origin
of Electrocatalysis in the reduction of peroxodisulfate on gold
electrodes Z. Samec, K. Doblhofer, A.M. Bittner, J. Electroanal. Chem. 432 (1997) 205-214 |
| 10) | The
growth of the second underpotentially deposited silver layer on Pt(100)
A.M. Bittner, J. Electroanal. Chem. 431 (1997) 51-56 |
| 9) | Strain
relief during metal-on-metal electrodeposition: a scanning tunneling
microscopy
study of copper growth on Pt(100) A.M. Bittner, J. Wintterlin, G. Ertl, Surf. Sci. 376 (1997) 267-278 |
| 8) | Electrocatalytic
reduction of peroxodisulfate on Au(111) in acidic aqueous solutions
Z. Samec, K. Doblhofer, A.M. Bittner, J. Electroanal. Chem. 409 (1996) 165-173 |
| 7) | Bromine
adsorption on Pt(111), (100) and (110) - an STM study in air and in
electrolyte A.M. Bittner, J. Wintterlin, B.Beran, G. Ertl, Surf. Sci. 335 (1995) 291-299 |
| 6) | Effects
of iodine coating and desorption on the reconstruction of a Pt(110)
electrode:
a scanning tunneling microscopy study A.M. Bittner, J. Wintterlin, G. Ertl, J. Electroanal. Chem. 388 (1995) 225-231 |
| 5) | Energy
transfer in a static electric field D.L. Andrews, A.M. Bittner, J. Luminescence 55 (1993) 231-242 |
| 4) | Three-photon
bimolecular absorption D.L. Andrews, A.M. Bittner, J. Phys. B 26 (1993) 675-687 |
| 3) | Selection rules for bimolecular photoabsorption D.L. Andrews, A.M. Bittner, Chemical Physics 165 (1992) 1-10 |
| 2) | The role of the microstructure of copper deposits during
electroless
plating in formaldehyde containing alkaline baths. Comparison of
fourier
transform impedance spectroscopy and surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy
A. Bittner, M. Wanner, K.G. Weil, Ber. Bunsenges. Phys. Chem. 96 (1992) 647-656 |
| 1) | Influence of a magnetic field on line intensities in the
optical
spectra of free molecules D.L. Andrews, A.M. Bittner, J. Chem.Soc. Faraday Trans. 87 (1991) 513-516 |
