Dr. Alexander Bittner

Ikerbasque Research Professor
(German)

Doctor rer. nat. (Chemie) from Free University, Berlin, Germany (1996)
PhD at the Fritz-Haber-Institute in Berlin, postdocs at LURE in France and at ETH Lausanne, Nanoscale Science at MPI Solid State Research in Stuttgart.
Research line: Electrochemistry, solid/liquid interfaces, plant viruses, electrospinning .
Has come from the MPI Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany.
Has joined the CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia .

Publications

2011

A. Kadri, E. Maiss, N. Amsharov, A.M. Bittner, S. Balci, K. Kern, H. Jeske, C. Wege (2011)
Engineered Tobacco mosaic virus mutants with distinct physical characteristics in planta and enhanced metallization properties
Virus Res.

A. Mueller, F.J. Eber, C. Azucena, A. Petershans, A.M. Bittner, H. Gliemann, H. Jeske, C. Wege (2011)
Inducible Site-Selective Bottom-Up Assembly of Virus-Derived Nanotube Arrays on RNA-Equipped Wafers
ACS Nano

2010

Z. Wu, A. Mueller, S. Degenhard, E. Ruff, F. Geiger, A.M. Bittner, C. Wege and C. Krill III (2010)
Enhancing the magnetoviscosity of ferrofluids by the addition of biological nanotubes
ACS Nano

Z. Wu, R. Zierold, A. Mueller, S.E. Ruff, C. Ma, A.A. Khan, F. Geiger, B.A. Sommer, M. Knez, K. Nielsch, A.M. Bittner, C. Wege, C.E. Krill III (2010)
Preparation and magnetoviscosity of nanotube ferrofluids by viral scaffolding and ALD on porous templates
Phys. Status Solidi B

2009

S. Balci, A.M. Bittner, M. Schirra, K. Thonke, R. Sauer, K. Hahn, A. Kadri, C. Wege, H. Jeske, K. Kern (2009)
Catalytic coating of virus particles with zinc oxide
Electrochim. Acta

A.M. Bittner, F. Heber, J. Hamaekers (2009)
Biomolecules as Soft Matter Surfaces
Surf. Sci.

2008

G. Singh, A.M. Bittner*, S. Loscher, N. Malinowski (2008)
Electrospinning of Diphenylalanine Nanotubes
Adv. Mater. 20

S. Balci, D.M. Leinberger, M. Knez, A.M. Bittner*, F. Boes, A. Kadri, C. Wege, H. Jeske, K. Kern (2008)
Printing and Aligning Mesoscale Patterns of Tobacco Mosaic Viruses on Surfaces
Adv. Mater.

M. Zhu, C.J. Weber, Y. Yang, M. Konuma U. Starke, K. Kern, A.M. Bittner (2008)
Chemical and electrochemical ageing of carbon materials used in supercapacitor electrodes
Carbon

Books and book chapters

Published

C. Wege, H. Jeske, A. Müller, A. Kadri, S. Balci; G. Baralia, N. Amsharov, A. Petershans, C. Azucena, H. Gliemann, K. Thonke, M. Schirra, Z. Wu, C. Krill III, A.M. Bittner (2011)
Type: chapters
Book: Nanotechnology – Fundamentals and Applications of Functional Nanostructures
Chapter: Plant viral nanoscale biotemplates: from virowires to dumbbells and arrays
Page numbers: 385-409
ISBN: 978-3-00-030810-9 | Baden-Württemberg Stiftung GmbH, Karlsruhe | Editors: T. Schimmel, H. v. Löhneysen, and M. Barcewski
A.M. Bittner (2009)
Type: chapters
Book: Advanced Nanoscale ULSI Interconnects: Fundamentals and Applications
Chapter: Electroless Deposition Approaching the Molecular Scale
Page numbers: 221-238
ISBN: 978-0-387-95867-5 | Springer, Heidelberg | Editors: Shacham-Diamand, Y.; Osaka, T.; Datta, M.; Ohba, T.
A.M. Bittner (2009)
Type: book
Book: Handbook of Biomineralization: Biomimetic and Bioinspired Chemistry
Chapter: The Tobacco Mosaic Virus as Template
Page numbers: 17.1-17.6
ISBN: 978-3-527-31805-6 | Wiley-VCH, Weinheim | Editors: P. Behrens, E. Bäuerlein, S. Mann
A.M. Bittner, D.K.R. Robinson (2009)
Type: book
Book: Nanotechnology: Development and Influence on the Society
Chapter: Plant Viruses as Templates - Self Assembly, applications and posible impact in society
Page numbers:
ISBN: 837587003X | xxx | Editors: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
H. Jeske, C. Wege, K. Kern, A.M. Bittner (2008)
Type: book
Book: Nanotechnology - Physics, Chemistry, and Biology of Functional Nanostructures
Chapter: Plant viral nanoscale biotemplates: on the road to virowires
Page numbers: 421-454
ISBN: 978-3-00-030810-9 | Landesstiftung Baden-Württemberg GmbH, Karlsruhe | Editors: T. Schimmel, H. v. Löhneysen, M. Barcewski, and C. Obermair

Congresses, Proceedings & Scientific meetings

How to coat plant viruses. A.M. Bittner
Nanospain (2010) Congress
Malaga (Invited talk)
Self- and 'not so self'-assembly: Plant virus hybrids and peptides. A.M. Bittner
Nanoscience: chemistry and physics behind supramolecular science (2010) Congress
Donostia Int. Physics Center (Invited talk)

Ikerbasque. Basque Foundation for Science