Dr. Simmchen, Juliane

Juliane Simmchen, portrait © Michael Kretzschmar

Junior Research Group Leader

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Dr. Juliane Simmchen

Freigeist-Fellowship

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Physical Chemistry

Physical Chemistry

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Andreas-Schubert Bau, Room 516 Zellescher Weg 19

01069 Dresden

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Research

Moving tiny objects at the microscale might seem futuristic but it is a fascinating field of research with the potential to pave the way for many new applications. In order to understand more of the underlying principles, how to control the speed, how to influence the direction etc. I study active colloids, propelled by catalytic reactions. Those are mostly inorganic catalysts, such as Platinum due to their steady, controllable motion.

However, more environmentally friendly solutions such as enzyme driven reactions or hybrid motors driven by bacteria also are part of my research focus. Recently my project to use light induced catalytic reactions driven by photocatalytic nanoparticles for microswimmer propulsion was awarded a Freigeist grant from Volkswagen Stiftung and will be the main focus in the future.

Projects

Environmental applications of light driven microswimmers

Photocatalytic processes for micromotion and analytic purposes (Photolytics)
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completed projects:

Development of biocompatible bacterial hybrid micromotors for the transport of biomedically relevant microobjects (BacMot)
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Micromotors Summer School
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Experience

2016 Junior group leader TU Dresden
2014-2015 Postdoc at MPI for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart
2010-2014 PhD at ICN2, Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain)/Univ. Complutense Madrid
2004-2010 Diploma in analytical chemistry, Dresden University of Technology/University of Napels

Publications

  • Linlin Wang, Mino Borrelli, Juliane Simmchen

    Self-asymmetric Yolk-shell Photocatalytic ZnO Micromotors

    ChemPhotoChem 2021, just accepted. DOI: 10.1002/cptc.202100083

  • Priyanka Sharan, Audrey Nsamela, Sasha Cai Lesher-Pérez and Juliane Simmchen

    Microfluidics for Microswimmers: Engineering Novel Swimmers and Constructing Swimming Lanes on the Microscale, a Tutorial Review

    Small 2021, 2007403. DOI: 10.1002/smll.202007403

  • Sandra Heckel, Julia Hübner, Anne Leutzgen, Gregor Jung and Juliane Simmchen

    Progress Report on pH-Influenced Photocatalysis for Active Motion

    Catalysts 2021, 11, 599. DOI: 10.3390/catal11050599

  • Audrey Nsamela, Priyanka Sharan, Aidee Garcia-Zintzun, Sandra Heckel, Purnesh Chattopadhyay, Linlin Wang, Martin Wittmann, Thomas Gemming, James Saenz and Juliane Simmchen

    Effect of viscosity on microswimmers: a comparative study

    ChemNanoMat 2021, Accepted Articles. DOI: 10.1002/cnma.202100119

  • Martin Wittmann, Mihail N. Popescu, Alvaro Domínguez and Juliane Simmchen

  • Active spheres induce Marangoni flows that drive collective dynamics

    The European Physical Journal E 2021, 44, 15. DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-020-00006-5 

  • Priyanka Sharan, Witold Postek, Thomas Gemming, Piotr Gastecki and Juliane Simmchen

    Study of Active Janus Particles in the Presence of an Engineered Oil–Water Interface

    Langmuir 2020, Articles ASAP. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c02752

  • Lukas Niese, Linlin Wang, Sayan Das and Juliane Simmchen

    Apparent phototaxis enabled by Brownian Motion

    (Soft Matter Emerging Investigators Issue 2021), Soft Matter 2020, 16, 10585-10590. DOI: 10.1039/D0SM01603A

  • Sandra Heckel, Jens Grauer, Maria Semmler, Thomas Gemming, Hartmut Löwen, Benno Liebchen and Juliane Simmchen

    Active Assembly of Spheroidal Photocatalytic BiVO4 Microswimmers

    Langmuir 2020, 36, 42, 12473–12480. DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.0c01568

  • Purnesh Chattopadhyay, Priyanka Sharan, Andrej Berndt and Juliane Simmchen

    Carbonate Micromotors for Treatment of Construction Effluents

    Nanomaterials 2020, 10, 1408. DOI: 10.3390/nano10071408

  • Veronika Magdanz, Islam S. M. Khalil, Juliane Simmchen, Guilherme P. Furtado, Sumit Mohanty, Johannes Gebauer, Haifeng Xu, Anke Klingner, Azaam Aziz, Mariana Medina-Sanchez, Oliver G. Schmidt and Sarthak Misra

    IRONSperm: Sperm-templated soft magnetic microrobots

    Science Advances2020, 6, 28. DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.aba5855

  • Islam S. M. Khalil, Veronika Magdanz, Juliane Simmchen, Anke Klingner and Sarthak Misra

    Resemblance between motile and magnetically actuated sperm cells

    Appl. Phys. Lett. 2020, 116, 063702. DOI: 10.1063/1.5142470

  • Luisa Sonntag, Juliane Simmchen and Veronika Magdanz 

    Nano-and Micromotors Designed for Cancer Therapy

    Molecules 2019, 24, 8410. DOI: 10.3390/molecules24183410

  • Sandra Heckel and Juliane Simmchen

    Photocatalytic BiVO4 Micro Swimmers with Bimodal Swimming Strategies

    Adv. Intell. Sys. 2019, 201900093. DOI: 10.1002/aisy.201900093

  • Linlin Wang and Juliane Simmchen

    Review: Interactions of Active Colloids with Passive Tracers

    Condens. Matter 2019, 4, 78. DOI: 10.3390/condmat4030078

  • Linlin Wang, Andrea Käppler, Dieter Fischer and Juliane Simmchen

    Photocatalytic TiO2 Micromotors for Removal of Microplastics and Suspended Matter

    ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2019, 11, 32937-32944. DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b06128

  • Veronika Magdanz, Johannes Gebauer, Priyanka Sharan, Samar Eltoukhy, Dagmar Voigt and Juliane Simmchen

    Sperm-particle interactions and their prospects for charge mapping

    Adv. Biosys. 2019, 190061. DOI: 10.1002/adbi.201900061

  • Julio Bastos-Arrieta, Christoph Bauer, Alexander Eychmüller and Juliane Simmchen

    Galvanic replacement induced electromotive force to propel janus micromotors

    J. Chem. Phys. 2019, 150, 144902. DOI: 10.1063/1.5085838

  • Julio Bastos-Arrieta, Ainhoa Revilla-Guarinos, William E. Uspal and Juliane Simmchen
    Bacterial Biohybrid Microswimmers
    Front. Robot. AI, 29 August 2018

  • C. Richard, J. Simmchen, A. Eychmüller
    Photocatalytic Iron Oxide Micro-swimmers for Environmental Remediation
    Z. Phys. Chem

  • Jaideep Katuri, William E. Uspal, Juliane Simmchen, Albert Miguel-López and Samuel Sánche
    Cross-stream migration of active particles
    Science Advances , Vol. 4, no. 1, eaao1755

  • LinLin Wang, Mihail N. Popescu, Fernando Stavale,  Astrid Ali, Thomas Gemming and Juliane Simmchen
     Cu@TiO2 Janus microswimmers with a versatile motion mechanism
    Soft Matter, Issue 34, 2018
  • M Safdar, J Simmchen, J Jänis
    Light-driven micro-and nanomotors for environmental remediation
    Environmental Science: Nano 4 (8), 1602-1616
  • W Uspal, J Katuri, J Simmchen, A Miguel-Lopez, S Sanchez
    Cross-stream migration of active particles
    Bulletin of the American Physical Society 62 (arXiv:1706.06817)
  • Simmchen J, Baeza A, Miguel-Lopez A, Stanton MM, Vallet-Regí M, Ruiz D, Sanchez
    Dynamics of Novel Photoactive AgCl Microstars and Their Environmental Applications
    ChemNanoMat 3 (1), 65-71 (plus Back cover) 
  • Simmchen J, Katuri J, Uspal W, Popescu M, Tasinkevych M, Sanchez S, Nature Comm., 2016.
  • Stanton MM, Simmchen J, Ma X, Miguel-Lopez A, Sanchez S, Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2015.
  • Maggi C, Simmchen J, Saglimbeni F, Katuri J, Dipalo M, DeAngelis F , Sanchez S, DiLeonardo R, Small 2015.
  • Parmar J, Ma X, Katuri J, Simmchen J, Stanton MM, Trichet-Paredes C, Soler L, Sanchez S, Science and Technology of Advanced Materials 2014, 16 (1).
  • Simmchen J, Baeza A, Ruiz D, Vallet-Regí M, Nanoscale 2014, 6: 8907-8913.
  • Simmchen J, Magdanz V, Sanchez S, Chokmaviroj S, Ruiz Molina D, Baeza A, Schmidt OG, RSC Advances  2014, 4: 20334-20340.
  • Novio F, Simmchen J, Vazquez N, Amorín L, Ruiz-Molina D, Coordination Chemistry Review 2013, 257 (19-20): 2839-2847.
  • Simmchen J, Baeza A, Ruiz D, Esplandiu MJ, Vallet-Regí M, Small 2012, 9, 8 (13): 2053-9.
  • Simmchen J, Ventura R, Segura J, Transfusion Medicine Reviews 2012, 26 (1): 27-37.
  • Anielski P, Simmchen J, Wassill L, Ganghofner D, Thieme D,  Drug Test Anal 2011, 3:

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