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Robert Häner is affiliated with the University of Bern in Switzerland and has a research profile primarily focused on materials science and physics-related fields. Their work spans 63 publications in materials science and 31 in physics and astronomy. The subfields they frequently contribute to include materials chemistry, atomic and molecular physics and optics, molecular biology, electrical and electronic engineering, and organic chemistry.

The research topics Häner addresses cover a diverse range of subjects including luminescence and fluorescent materials, molecular junctions and nanostructures, supramolecular self-assembly in materials, graphene research and applications, advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques, DNA and nucleic acid chemistry, and topological materials and phenomena.

Häner has been active in several publication venues, with notable numbers in:

  • Bern Open Repository and Information System (University of Bern)
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Angewandte Chemie
  • Chemical Science
  • Chemical Communications

Frequent collaboration partners of Häner include Shi-Xia Liu, Silvio Decurtins, Ulrich Aschauer, Rémy Pawlak, and Ernst Meyer, each with multiple co-authored works.

Among recent papers published by Häner are:

  • Bottom-up Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Porous Graphene Nanoribbons, 2020, Journal of the American Chemical Society
  • Engineering couplings for exciton transport using synthetic DNA scaffolds, 2021, Chem
  • On-Surface Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Kagome Graphene, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Stimuli-Responsive Supramolecular Polymers from Amphiphilic Phosphodiester-Linked Azobenzene Trimers, 2021, Angewandte Chemie International Edition
  • Complexity of the eukaryotic dolichol-linked oligosaccharide scramblase suggested by activity correlation profiling mass spectrometry, 2021, Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Nucleic acid-guided assembly of aromatic chromophores

    Vladimir L. Malinovskii;Daniel Wenger;Robert Häner

  • Second Generation of Antisense Oligonucleotides: From Nuclease Resistance to Biological Efficacy in Animals.

    K.-H. Altmann;N. M. Dean;D. Fabbro;S. M. Freier

  • A Novel Bispecific Antisense Oligonucleotide Inhibiting Both bcl-2 and bcl-xL Expression Efficiently Induces Apoptosis in Tumor Cells

    U Zangemeister-Wittke;S H Leech;R A Olie;A P Simões-Wüst

  • Helical Arrangement of Interstrand Stacked Pyrenes in a DNA Framework

    Vladimir L. Malinovskii;Florent Samain;Robert Häner

  • A DNA‐Based Light‐Harvesting Antenna

    Florian Garo;Robert Häner

  • Towards Artificial Ribonucleases: The Sequence-Specific Cleavage of RNA in a Duplex

    Jonathan Hall;Dieter Hüsken;Robert Häner

  • Bottom-up Synthesis of Nitrogen-Doped Porous Graphene Nanoribbons.

    Rémy Pawlak;Xunshan Liu;Silviya Ninova;Philipp d'Astolfo

  • Excimer formation by interstrand stacked pyrenes

    Simon M. Langenegger;Robert Häner

  • Efficient sequence-specific cleavage of RNA using novel europium complexes conjugated to oligonucleotides

    Jonathan Hall;Dieter Hüsken;Uwe Pieles;Heinz E. Moser

  • A Highly Sensitive, Excimer‐Controlled Molecular Beacon

    Robert Häner;Sarah M. Biner;Simon M. Langenegger;Tao Meng

  • Long-distance electronic energy transfer in light-harvesting supramolecular polymers.

    Christian B. Winiger;Shaoguang Li;Ganesh R. Kumar;Simon M. Langenegger

  • Formation of two-dimensional supramolecular polymers by amphiphilic pyrene oligomers.

    Mykhailo Vybornyi;Alexander Rudnev;Simon Matthias Langenegger;Thomas Wandlowski

  • Creating RNA bulges: cleavage of RNA in RNA/DNA duplexes by metal ion catalysis.

    Dieter Hüsken;Greg Goodall;Marcel J. J. Blommers;Wolfgang Jahnke

  • Bcl-xl antisense treatment induces apoptosis in breast carcinoma cells.

    A. Paula Simões-Wüst;Robert A. Olie;Oliver Gautschi;Siân H. Leech

  • Control of aggregation-induced emission by DNA hybridization

    Shaoguang Li;Simon Matthias Langenegger;Robert Häner

  • Dialkynylpyrenes: strongly fluorescent, environment-sensitive DNA building blocks.

    Holger Bittermann;Doreen Siegemund;Vladimir L. Malinovskii;Robert Häner

  • A Light‐Driven Supramolecular Optical Switch

    Shin‐nosuke Uno;Chikara Dohno;Holger Bittermann;Vladimir L. Malinovskii

  • Oligopyrenotides: Abiotic, Polyanionic Oligomers with Nucleic Acid-like Structural Properties

    Robert Häner;Florian Garo;Daniel Wenger;Vladimir L. Malinovskii

  • Single-strand DNA triple-helix formation

    Robert Häner;Peter B. Dervan

  • DNA‐Assisted Self‐Assembly of Pyrene Foldamers

    Robert Häner;Florent Samain;Vladimir L. Malinovskii

  • Preparation and C-alkylation of enantiomerically pure S-phenyl aziridinecarbothioates. On the structure of small-ring ester lithium enolates

    Robert Häner;Bernardo Olano;Dieter Seebach

  • The sequence-specific cleavage of RNA by artificial chemical ribonucleases

    Robert Häner;Jonathan Hall

  • Highly efficient quenching of excimer fluorescence by perylene diimide in DNA.

    Nicolas Bouquin;Vladimir L. Malinovskii;Robert Häner

Frequent Co-Authors

Silvio Decurtins
Silvio Decurtins University of Bern
Gion Calzaferri
Gion Calzaferri University of Bern
Anant K. Menon
Anant K. Menon Cornell University
Thomas Wandlowski
Thomas Wandlowski University of Bern
Ernst Meyer
Ernst Meyer University of Basel
Dieter Seebach
Dieter Seebach ETH Zurich
Dirk M. Guldi
Dirk M. Guldi University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
Uwe Zangemeister-Wittke
Uwe Zangemeister-Wittke University of Bern
Colin J. Lambert
Colin J. Lambert Lancaster University
Rolf A. Stahel
Rolf A. Stahel University of Zurich

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