News 

• New exchange program with Rice university/USAstarted
• Nano Science Award for Jan Becker's dissertation "Plasmons as sensors".
• Spot an in der Nanowelt: Struktur kleinster Kristalle wird sichtbar gemacht, Pressemitteilung.
• Sönnichsen receives ERC starting grant: see here and here

recent publications

• Single Unlabeled Protein Detection on Individual Plasmonic Nanoparticles Nano Letters
• ADT on Meso-Microporous Zeolite SCIENCE
• Perspective arcticle on plasmon rulers SCIENCE

selected publications

• A molecular ruler based on plasmon coupling of single gold and silver nanoparticles Nature Biotechnology 
• Drastic reduction of plasmon damping in gold nanorods  Physical Review Letters
• Biomolecular recognition based on single gold nanoparticle light scattering   Nano Letters