Publications

Fragkopoulos, A. A.; Böhme, F.; Drewes, N.; Bäumchen, O.: Metabolic activity controls the emergence of coherent flows in microbial suspensions. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 122 (4), e2413340122 (2025)

Kurjahn, M.; Deka, A.; Girot, A.; Abbaspour, L.; Klumpp, S.; Lorenz, M.; Bäumchen, O.; Karpitschka, S.: Quantifying gliding forces of filamentous cyanobacteria by self-buckling. eLife 12, RP87450 (2024)

Catalan, R. E.; Fragkopoulos, A. A.; von Trott, N.; Kelterborn, S.; Baidukova, O.; Hegemann, P.; Bäumchen, O.: Light-regulated adsorption and desorption of Chlamydomonas cells at surfaces. Soft Matter 19, pp. 306 - 314 (2023)

Fragkopoulos, A. A.; Vachier, J.; Frey, J.; le Menn, F.-M.; Wilczek, M.; Mazza, M.; Bäumchen, O.: Light controls motility and phase separation of photosynthetic microbes. arXiv, (submitted) (2022)

Cammann, J.; Schwarzendahl, F. J.; Ostapenko, T.; Lavrentovich, D.; Bäumchen, O.; Mazza, M. G.: Emergent probability fluxes in confined microbial navigation. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118 (39), e2024752118 (2021)

Fragkopoulos, A. A.; Vachier, J.; Frey, J.; le Menn, F.-M.; Mazza, M. G.; Wilczek, M.; Zwicker, D.; Bäumchen, O.: Self-generated oxygen gradients control collective aggregation of photosynthetic microbes. Journal of The Royal Society Interface 18, 20210553 (2021)

Hemmerle, A.; Yamaguchi, Y.; Makowski, M.; Bäumchen, O.; Goehring, L.: Measuring and upscaling micromechanical interactions in a cohesive granular material. Soft Matter 17, pp. 5806 - 5814 (2021)

Yandrapalli, N.; Petit, J.; Bäumchen, O.; Robinson, T.: Surfactant-free production of biomimetic giant unilamellar vesicles using PDMS-based microfluidics. Communications Chemistry 4, 100 (2021)

Böddeker, T. J.; Karpitschka, S. A.; Kreis, C. T.; Magdelaine, Q.; Bäumchen, O.: Dynamic force measurements on swimming Chlamydomonas cells using micropipette force sensors. Interface: Journal of the Royal Society 17, 20190580 (2020)

Xu, N.; Oltmanns, A.; Zhao, L.; Girot, A.; Karimi, M.; Hoepfner, L.; Kelterborn, S.; Scholz, M.; Beißel, J.; Hegemann, P. et al.; Bäumchen, O.; Liu, L.-N.; Huang, K.; Hippler, M.: Altered N-glycan composition impacts flagella-mediated adhesion in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii. eLife 9, e58805 (2020)

Backholm, M.; Bäumchen, O.: Micropipette force sensors for in vivo force measurements on single cells and multicellular microorganisms. Nature Protocols 14, pp. 594 - 615 (2019)

Kreis, C. T.; Grangier, A.; Bäumchen, O.: In vivo adhesion force measurements of Chlamydomonas on model substrates. Soft Matter 15, pp. 3027 - 3035 (2019)

Kamprad, N.; Witt, H.; Schröder, M.; Kreis, C. T.; Bäumchen, O.; Janshoff, A.; Tarantola, M.: Adhesion strategies of Dictyostelium discoideum - A force spectroscopy study. Nanoscale 10 (47), pp. 22504 - 22519 (2018)

Petit, J.; Thomi, L.; Schultze, J.; Makowski, M.; Negwer, I.; Koynov, K.; Herminghaus, S.; Wurm, F.; Bäumchen, O.; Landfester, K.: A modular approach for multifunctional polymersomes with controlled adhesive properties. Soft Matter 14 (6), pp. 894 - 900 (2018)

Ostapenko, T.; Schwarzendahl, F. J.; Böddeker, T. J.; Kreis, C. T.; Cammann, J.; Mazza, M. G.; Bäumchen, O.: Curvature-guided motility of microalgae in geometric confinement. Physical Review Letters 120 (6), 068002 (2018)

Ilton, M.; Salez, T.; Fowler, P. D.; Rivetti, M.; Aly, M.; Benzaquen, M.; McGraw, J. D.; Raphaël, E.; Dalnoki-Veress, K.; Bäumchen, O.: Adsorption-induced slip inhibition for polymer melts on ideal substrates. Nature Communications 9, 1172 (2018)

Kreis, C. T.; Le Blay, M.; Linne, C.; Makowski, M.; Bäumchen, O.: Adhesion of Chlamydomonas microalgae to surfaces is switchable by light. Nature Physics 14 (1), pp. 45 - 49 (2018)

Lessel, M.; McGraw, J. D.; Bäumchen, O.; Jacobs, K.: Nucleated dewetting in supported ultra-thin liquid films with hydrodynamic slip. Soft Matter 13 (27), pp. 4756 - 4760 (2017)

Rivetti, M.; Bertin, V.; Salez, T.; Hui, C.-Y.; Linne, C.; Arutkin, M.; Wu, H.; Raphael, E.; Bäumchen, O.: Elastocapillary levelling of thin viscous films on soft substrates. Physical Review Fluids 2 (9), 094001 (2017)

Kasprowicz, D.; Gluchowski, P.; Brik, M. G.; Makowski, M.; Chrunik, M.; Majchrowski, A.: Visible and near-infrared up-conversion luminescence of KGd(WO4)(2) micro-crystals doped with Er3+, Tm3+, Ho3+ and Yb3+ ions. Journal of Alloys and Compounds 684, pp. 271 - 281 (2016)

Salili, S. M.; Ostapenko, T.; Kress, O.; Bailey, C.; Weissflog, W.; Harth, K.; Eremin, A.; Stannarius, R.; Jalki, A.: Rupture and recoil of bent-core liquid crystal filaments. Soft Matter 12 (21), pp. 4725 - 4730 (2016)

Petit, J.; Polenz, I.; Baret, J.-C.; Herminghaus, S.; Bäumchen, O.: Vesicles-on-a-chip: A universal microfluidic platform for the assembly of liposomes and polymersomes. The European Physical Journal E 39 (6), 59 (2016)

Andreotti, B.; Bäumchen, O.; Boulogne, F.; Daniels, K. E.; Dufresne, E. R.; Perrin, H.; Salez, T.; Snoeijer, J. H.; Style, R. W.: Solid capillarity: When and how does surface tension deform soft solids? Soft Matter 12 (12), pp. 2993 - 2996 (2016)

Eremin, A.; Geng, Y.; Stannarius, R.; Ostapenko, T.; Challa, P. K.; Gleeson, J. T.; Jakli, A.; Klein, S.: Peculiarities of the magneto-optical response in dispersions of anisometric pigment nano-particles. RSC Advances 6 (84), pp. 80666 - 80669 (2016)

Rivetti, M.; Salez, T.; Benzaquen, M.; Raphael, E.; Bäumchen, O.: Universal contact-line dynamics at the nanoscale. Soft Matter 11 (48), pp. 9247 - 9253 (2015)