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    Switching adhesion and friction by light using photosensitive guest - host interactions
    (Cambridge : Royal Society of Chemistry, 2015) Blass, Johanna; Bozna, Bianca; Albrecht, Marcel; Krings, Jennifer A.; Ravoo, Bart Jan; Wenz, Gerhard; Bennewitz, Roland
    Friction and adhesion between two β-cyclodextrin functionalized surfaces can be switched reversibly by external light stimuli. The interaction between the cyclodextrin molecules attached to the tip of an atomic force microscope and a silicon wafer surface is mediated by complexation of ditopic azobenzene guest molecules. At the single molecule level, the rupture force of an individual complex is 61 ± 10 pN.
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    Single-Polymer Friction Force Microscopy of dsDNA Interacting with a Nanoporous Membrane
    (Washington, DC : ACS Publ., 2023) Schellnhuber, Kordula; Blass, Johanna; Hübner, Hanna; Gallei, Markus; Bennewitz, Roland
    Surface-grafted polymers can reduce friction between solids in liquids by compensating the normal load with osmotic pressure, but they can also contribute to friction when fluctuating polymers entangle with the sliding counter face. We have measured forces acting on a single fluctuating double-stranded DNA polymer, which is attached to the tip of an atomic force microscope and interacts intermittently with nanometer-scale methylated pores of a self-assembled polystyrene-block-poly(4-vinylpyridine) membrane. Rare binding of the polymer into the pores is followed by a stretching of the polymer between the laterally moving tip and the surface and by a force-induced detachment. We present results for the velocity dependence of detachment forces and of attachment frequency and discuss them in terms of rare excursions of the polymer beyond its equilibrium configuration.
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    Nanomechanics of self-assembled DNA building blocks
    (Cambridge : RSC Publ., 2021) Penth, Michael; Schellnhuber, Kordula; Bennewitz, Roland; Blass, Johanna
    DNA has become a powerful platform to design functional nanodevices. DNA nanodevices are often composed of self-assembled DNA building blocks that differ significantly from the structure of native DNA. In this study, we present Flow Force Microscopy as a massively parallel approach to study the nanomechanics of DNA self-assemblies on the single-molecular level. The high-throughput experiments performed in a simple microfluidic channel enable statistically meaningful studies with nanometer scale precision in a time frame of several minutes. A surprisingly high flexibility was observed for a typical construct used in DNA origami, reflected in a persistence length of 10.2 nm, a factor of five smaller than for native DNA. The enhanced flexibility is attributed to the discontinuous backbone of DNA self-assemblies that facilitate base pair opening by thermal fluctuations at the end of hybridized oligomers. We believe that the results will contribute to the fundamental understanding of DNA nanomechanics and help to improve the design of DNA nanodevices with applications in biological analysis and clinical research.