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Friedrich C. Simmel is affiliated with the Technical University of Munich in Germany. Their research work spans several fields including biochemistry, genetics and molecular biology, as well as engineering. Within these broad fields, they focus on molecular biology, biomedical engineering, electrical and electronic engineering, ecology, and mechanical engineering as subfields of study.

The main topics Friedrich C. Simmel has contributed to include advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms, RNA interference and gene delivery, bacteriophages and microbial interactions, molecular junctions and nanostructures, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, and CRISPR and genetic engineering.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • DNA origami (2021) published in Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • A DNA origami rotary ratchet motor (2022) published in Nature
  • Roadmap on soft robotics: multifunctionality, adaptability and growth without borders (2022) published in Multifunctional Materials
  • Cell-free production of personalized therapeutic phages targeting multidrug-resistant bacteria (2022) published in Cell Chemical Biology
  • Barcoded DNA origami structures for multiplexed optimization and enrichment of DNA-based protein-binding cavities (2020) published in Nature Chemistry

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Friedrich C. Simmel include Enzo Kopperger, Tianhe Wang, Anna C. Jäkel, Lukas Oesinghaus, and Lukas Aufinger.

Their work has been published extensively in several venues. The most frequented publication venues are bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), Nature Communications, ACS Synthetic Biology, and Angewandte Chemie International Edition.

Best Publications

  • A DNA-fuelled molecular machine made of DNA

    Bernard Yurke;Andrew J. Turberfield;Andrew J. Turberfield;Allen P. Mills;Friedrich C. Simmel

  • DNA-based self-assembly of chiral plasmonic nanostructures with tailored optical response

    Anton Kuzyk;Robert Schreiber;Zhiyuan Fan;Günther Pardatscher

  • Single-molecule kinetics and super-resolution microscopy by fluorescence imaging of transient binding on DNA origami.

    Ralf Jungmann;Ralf Jungmann;Christian Steinhauer;Max Scheible;Anton Kuzyk

  • Synthetic Lipid Membrane Channels formed by Designed DNA Nanostructures

    Martin Langecker;Vera Arnaut;Thomas G. Martin;Jonathan List

  • Principles and Applications of Nucleic Acid Strand Displacement Reactions

    Friedrich C. Simmel;Bernard Yurke;Hari R. Singh

  • DNA origami

    Swarup Dey;Chunhai Fan;Kurt V. Gothelf;Jiang Li

  • Nucleic acid based molecular devices.

    Yamuna Krishnan;Friedrich C. Simmel

  • DNA fuel for free-running nanomachines.

    A. J. Turberfield;J. C. Mitchell;B. Yurke;A. P. Mills

  • A self-assembled nanoscale robotic arm controlled by electric fields.

    Enzo Kopperger;Jonathan List;Sushi Madhira;Florian Rothfischer

  • Distance dependence of single-fluorophore quenching by gold nanoparticles studied on DNA origami.

    Guillermo P. Acuna;Martina Bucher;Ingo H. Stein;Christian Steinhauer

  • A DNA‐Based Machine That Can Cyclically Bind and Release Thrombin

    Wendy U. Dittmer;Andreas Reuter;Friedrich C. Simmel

  • Anomalous Kondo Effect in a Quantum Dot at Nonzero Bias

    F. Simmel;R. H. Blick;J. P. Kotthaus;W. Wegscheider

  • DNA Origami as a Nanoscopic Ruler for Super‐Resolution Microscopy

    Christian Steinhauer;Ralf Jungmann;Thomas L. Sobey;Friedrich C. Simmel

  • Timing molecular motion and production with a synthetic transcriptional clock

    Elisa Franco;Eike Friedrichs;Jongmin Kim;Ralf Jungmann

  • Quantitative analysis of single particle trajectories: mean maximal excursion method.

    Vincent Tejedor;Olivier Bénichou;Raphael Voituriez;Ralf Jungmann

  • Switching the conformation of a DNA molecule with a chemical oscillator.

    Tim Liedl;Friedrich C. Simmel

  • Diversity in the dynamical behaviour of a compartmentalized programmable biochemical oscillator

    Maximilian Weitz;Jongmin Kim;Korbinian Kapsner;Erik Winfree

  • Signalling and differentiation in emulsion-based multi-compartmentalized in vitro gene circuits

    Aurore Dupin;Friedrich C. Simmel

  • Solving mazes with single-molecule DNA navigators

    Jie Chao;Jie Chao;Jianbang Wang;Fei Wang;Xiangyuan Ouyang

  • Surface-assisted large-scale ordering of DNA origami tiles.

    Ali Aghebat Rafat;Tobias Pirzer;Max B. Scheible;Anna Kostina

  • DNA nanostructures interacting with lipid bilayer membranes.

    Martin Langecker;Vera Arnaut;Jonathan List;Friedrich C. Simmel

Frequent Co-Authors

Tim Liedl
Tim Liedl Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Ralf Jungmann
Ralf Jungmann Max Planck Society
Jörg P. Kotthaus
Jörg P. Kotthaus Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Werner Wegscheider
Werner Wegscheider Solid State Physics Laboratory
Don C. Lamb
Don C. Lamb Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Philip Tinnefeld
Philip Tinnefeld Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Fernando de la Cruz
Fernando de la Cruz University of Cantabria
Lihua Wang
Lihua Wang Chinese Academy of Sciences
Chunhai Fan
Chunhai Fan Chinese Academy of Sciences

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