Jürgen P. Rabe

Jürgen P. Rabe (born 20 November 1955 in Neuss) is a German physicist and nanoscientist.

Life

Jürgen P. Rabe studied physics and mathematics at RWTH Aachen where in 1981 he obtained his diploma in physics, based on a thesis on semiconductor optics with Peter Grosse. 1984 he obtained his doctoral degree from the Department of Physics at the Technische Universität München, based on a biophysical thesis on model membranes, promoted by Erich Sackmann.

As a visiting scientist at the IBM Almaden Research Center in San José (1984 - 1986) he initiated the use of scanning tunneling microscopy for molecular monolayers, which he continued in Gerhard Wegner’s department at the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research.

In 1992 he obtained his habilitation on this topic and became a professor for physical chemistry at Johannes Gutenberg-Universität in Mainz. Since 1994 he is full professor for experimental physics with an emphasis on macromolecular and supramolecular systems at the Department of Physics at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Rabe is an elected scientific member of the Max Planck Society and external member of the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces in Potsdam-Golm as well as a founding member and speaker for the Integrative Research Institute for the Sciences IRIS Adlershof at the Humboldt-Universität. He was the head of the Mathematics and Natural Science Faculty I at the Humboldt-Universität and visiting professor at the Materials Department of ETH Zürich and for the Department of Chemistry at Princeton University.[1]

Research

Rabe became internationally well known for his seminal scanning tunnel microscopic work on the structure, dynamics, and electronic properties of self-assembled molecular systems at solid-liquid interfaces,[2][3][4][5][6] with the first paper alone being cited more than 660 times.[7] He then developed concepts for a workbench to manipulate individual macromolecules and supramolecular systems, employing scanning probe microscopies, light, and molecularly modified graphite surfaces.[8] It has been used to correlate structure and dynamics of molecular systems with mechanical, electronic, optical, and (bio)chemical properties from molecular to macromolecular lengths and time scales.[9][10][11] It also led to the development of prototypical quasi 1- and 2- dimensional organic-inorganic hybrid systems, based on opto-electronically active molecular or graphite-based nanopores.[12][13][14] Rabe published more than 340 scientific articles, which have been cited more than 13.000 times.[7]

External links

References

  1. ↑ "Biography of Jurgen Rabe", University of Twente, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, Retrieved on 16 March 2015.
  2. ↑ J.P. Rabe, S. Buchholz: Commensurability and mobility in two-dimensional molecular patterns on graphite. Science 253 (1991) 424–427. doi:10.1126/science.253.5018.424
  3. ↑ J.P. Rabe, S. Buchholz: Direct observation of molecular structure and dynamics at the interface between a solid wall and an organic solution by scanning tunneling microscopy. Phys. Rev. Lett. 66 (1991) 2096–2099. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.66.2096;
  4. ↑ A. Stabel, P. Herwig, K. Müllen, J.P. Rabe: Diodelike current-voltage curves for a single molecule - tunneling spectroscopy with submolecular resolution of an alkylated peri-condensed hexabenzocoronene. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. Engl. 34 (1995) 1609–1611. doi:10.1002/anie.199516091
  5. ↑ F. Jäckel, M.D. Watson, K. Müllen, J.P. Rabe: Prototypical single molecule chemical field effect transistor with nanometer-sized gates. Phys. Rev. Lett. 92 (2004) 188303. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.188303. Featured by M. Van der Auweraer and F.C. De Schryver in Nature Materials 3 (2004) 507-508. doi:10.1038/nmat1182
  6. ↑ K. Müllen, J.P. Rabe: Nanographenes as active components of single-molecule electronics and how a scanning tunneling microscope puts them to work. Accounts of Chemical Research 41 (2008) 511–520. doi:10.1021/ar7001446
  7. 1 2 Jürgen Rabe D-1032-2010 - ResearcherID.com. Retrieved May 17, 2015
  8. ↑ J.P. Rabe: Molecular workbench for imaging and manipulation of single macromolecules and their complexes with the scanning force microscope. In Topics in Current Chemistry, P. Samorí (ed.), Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 285 (2008) 77–102. doi:10.1007/128_2008_4
  9. ↑ J. Barner, F. Mallwitz, L. Shu, A.D. Schlüter, J.P. Rabe: Covalent connection of two individual polymer chains on a surface: towards molecular nanoconstructions. Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 42 (2003) 1932–1935. doi:10.1002/anie.200250059
  10. ↑ H. Liang, N. Severin, S. Fugmann, I.M. Sokolov, and J.P. Rabe: Statistics of time-dependent rupture of single ds-DNA. J. Phys. Chem. B 117 (2013) 8875-8879. doi:10.1021/jp400872k
  11. ↑ C.-L Lee, T. Liebig, S. Hecht, D. Bléger, and J.P. Rabe: Light-Induced Contraction and Extension of Single Macromolecules on a Modified Graphite Surface. ACS Nano 8 (2014) 11987–11993. doi:10.1021/nn505325w. Featured in Perspective "Watching single molecules move in response to light" by P.K. Kundu and R. Klajn in ACS Nano 8 (2014) 11913-11916. doi:10.1021/nn506656r
  12. ↑ D.M. Eisele, H. v. Berlepsch, C. Böttcher, K.J. Stevenson, D.A. Vanden Bout, S. Kirstein, and J.P. Rabe: Photoinduced growth of sub-7 nm silver nanowires within a chemically active organic nanotubular template, J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132 (2010) 2104-2105. doi:10.1021/ja907373h
  13. ↑ Y. Qiao, F. Polzer, H. Kirmse, E. Steeg, S. Kühn, S. Friede, S. Kirstein, J.P. Rabe: Nanotubular J-aggregates and quantum dots coupled for efficient resonance excitation energy transfer. ACS Nano 9 (2015) 1552-1560. doi:10.1021/nn506095g
  14. ↑ N. Severin, P. Lange, I.M. Sokolov, J.P. Rabe: Reversible dewetting of a molecularly thin fluid water film in a soft graphene-mica slit pore. Nano Lett. 12 (2012) 774-779. doi:10.1021/nl2037358


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