Submitted manuscripts:

Christine Strehmel, Heidi Perez-Hernandez, Zhenfang Zhang, Axel Löbus, Andrés F. Lasagni and Marga C. Lensen* “Geometric Control of Cell Alignment and Spreading within the Confinement of Anti-Adhesive Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Microstructures on Laser-Patterned Surfaces”in review at Macromolecular Bioscience .

Changzhu Wu, Christine Strehmel, Katharina Achazi, Leonardo Chiappisi, Jens Dernedde, Marga C. Lensen, Michael Gradzielski, Marion B. Ansorge-Schumacher, and Rainer Haag* Ansorge-Schumacher, and Rainer Haag* “Enzymatically Crosslinked Hyperbranched Polyglycerol Hydrogels as Scaffolds for Living Cells” in revision at Biomacromolecules.

Published to date (July 13, 2014):

Zhenfang Zhang, Axel Loebus, Gonzalo de Vicente, Fang Ren, Manar Arafeh, Zhaofei Ouyang and Marga C. Lensen* “In situ formation of novel Poly(ethyleneglycol)-based hydrogels with tunable mechanics and chemical functionality via amine-Michael type addition Chem. Mater., 2014, 26 (12), 3624–3630. DOI: 10.1021/cm500203j

Susan Kelleher, Zhenfang Zhang, Axel Löbus, Christine Strehmel and Marga C. Lensen* "Blending PEG-based polymers to obtain a library of new biomaterials and their use in surface micro-patterning by the FIMIC method” Biomaterials Science, 2014, 2 (3), 410 – 418. DOI:10.1039/C3BM60218D.

Jingyu Chen, Manar Arafeh, Amandine Guiet, Diana Felkel, Axel Loebus, Susan Kelleher, Anna Fischer, Marga Lensen* “Hybrid Hierarchical Patterns of Gold Nanoparticles and Poly(Ethylene Glycol) Microstructures” Journal of Materials Chemistry C, special issue “Nanofabrication” (on invitation); 2013, 1 (46), 7709 – 7715. DOI: 10.1039/C3TC30811A.

V. A. Schulte, D. F. Alves, P. P. Dalton, M. Moeller, M. C. Lensen* and P. Mela* “Micro-Engineered PEG Hydrogels: 3D Scaffolds for Guided Cell Growth” Macromolecular Bioscience 2013, 13 (5): 562–572. DOI: 10.1002/mabi.201200376

Christine Strehmel, Zhenfang Zhang, Nadine Strehmel and Marga C. Lensen* „Cell-Biomaterial Interactions on Poly(Ethylene Glycol)- based Gels as Evaluated by Metabolomics” Biomaterials Science (on invitation); 2013, 1, 850-859. DOI: 10.1039/c3bm60055f.

R. Tsekov and M. C. Lensen “Brownian motion and temperament of living cells” Chinese Physics Letters 2013, 30, 070501. DOI:10.1088/0256-307X/30/7/070501.

M. C. Lensen* “Micro- and Nanopatterned Biomaterials: Fundamental Research for Tissue Engineering Applications” BioTOPics 2012, 43 (Biomaterials in Medicine): 16-17.

Susan Kelleher, Aniek Jongerius, Axel Loebus, Christine Strehmel, Zhenfang Zhang and Marga C. Lensen* “AFM Characterisation of elastically micropatterned surfaces fabricated by Fill-Molding In Capillaries (FIMIC) and investigation of the topographical influence on cell adhesion to the patterns” Advanced Engineering Materials (special issue Advanced Biomaterials; Euro Biomat Jena) 2012, 14(3):B56-B66.

- Book chapter:

M. C. Lensen*, V. A. Schulte, M. Diez “Cell adhesion and spreading on an intrinsically anti-adhesive PEG biomaterial” in ‘Biomaterial, Book 1’ (ISBN 978-953-307-418-4) InTech- Open Access Publisher, Ed.: R. Pignatello, 2011. Chapter 20, page 397-414

- Book chapter:

M. Diez, V. A. Schulte, J. Chen and M. C. Lensen* “Patterned PEG-hydrogels to manipulate cell adhesion and migration” in ‘Advances in Natural Polymers, Biopolymers, Biomaterials, and Their Composites, Blends and IPNs’ to be published by Apple Academics, Canada, Ed.: S. Thomas, l. Pothen, and A. K. Haghi, 2011 , in press (ISBN: 978-1-926895-16-1; available in July 2012).

- Book chapter:

M. C. Lensen*, M. Diez, and V. A. Schulte “Patternable biomaterials; elastomers for biomedical applications” in ′Elastomers: Types, Properties and Applications′ ,Nova Publishers, Ed.: J. Balcazara and E. Paules, 2012 page 37-38(ISBN: 978-1-61470-198-9).

Vera A. Schulte, Mar Diez, Martin Möller, Marga C. Lensen* “Topography induced cell adhesion to Acr-sP(EO-stat-PO) hydrogels: the role of protein adsorption” Macromolecular Bioscience 2011,11 (10): 1378–1386.

Mar Diez, Vera A. Schulte, Filippo Stefanoni, Carlo F. Natale, Francesco Mollica, Claudia M. Cesa, Jingyu Chen, Martin Möller, Paolo A. Netti, Maurizio Ventre and Marga C. Lensen* “ Molding Micropatterns of Elasticity on PEG-based Hydrogels to Control Cell Adhesion and Migration” Advanced Biomaterials 2011,13 (10): B395–B404

V. A. Schulte, M. Díez, M. Möller and M. C. Lensen* “ Cellular responses to physically and mechanically patterned biomaterials” eCM Journal 2010, 20: 157.

V. A. Schulte, M. Díez, Y. Hu, M. Möller and M. C. Lensen* “ Combined Influence of Substrate Stiffness and Surface Topography on the Antiadhesive Properties of Poly(ethylene Glycol) Hydrogels” Biomacromolecules, 2010, 11 (12): 3375 – 3383.

V. A. Schulte, Y. Hu, M. Díez, D. Bünger, M. Möller and M. C. Lensen* “A hydrophobic perfluoropolyether elastomer as a patternable biomaterial for cell culture and tissue engineering” Biomaterials 2010, 31 (33): 8583 – 8595.

Bartneck*, V. A. Schulte, N. Paul, M. Diez, M. C. Lensen and G. Zwadlo-Klarwasser „Induction of specific macrophage subtypes by defined micro-patterned structures” Acta Biomater 2010, 6 (10): 3864-3872.

S. Gilles, M. Diez, A. Offenhäusser, M. C. Lensen and D. Mayer*“Deformation of nanostructures on polymer stamps during soft UV nanoimprint lithography” Nanotechnology, 2010 , 21: 245307 (7pp).

J. Chen, P. Mela, M. Möller and M. C. Lensen* “Micro-contact deprinting: a technique to pattern gold nanoparticles” ACS Nano 2009 3 (6): 1451-1456.

M. Diez, P. Mela, V. Seshan, M. Möller and M. C. Lensen* “Nanomolding of PEG-based hydrogels with sub-10 nm resolution” Small 2009, 5 (23): 2756-2760.

R. Tsekov* and M. C. Lensen “Brownian motion and temperament of living cells” arXiv 2010, 0910.0927v3.

V. A. Schulte, M. Díez, M. Möller and M. C. Lensen* “Surface Topography induces Fibroblast Adhesion on intrinsically non-adhesive Poly(ethylene Glycol) Substrates” Biomacromolecules 2009, 10 (10): 2795-2801.

M. Bartneck, V. Schulte, N. Paul, M. Lensen and G. Zwadlo-Klarwasser. “Topographical control of human primary macrophages by different perfluoropolyether (PFPE) microstructures.”Biomaterialien 2009, 10, Heft 3/ 4: 136.

Marga C. Lensen,* Vera A. Schulte, Jochen Salber, Mar Diez, Fabian R. Menges, Martin Möller: „Cellular responses to novel, micro-patterned biomaterials” Pure Appl. Chem., 2008, 80 (11): 2479–2487.

Marga C. Lensen,* Vera A. Schulte, Mar Díez, Petra Mela and Martin Möller: “Micro- and Nano-patterned Surfaces for Specific Biointeraction” PMSE Preprint 2008, 99: 86.

Marga C. Lensen,* Mar Díez, Vera A. Schulte, Petra Mela, and Martin Möller. “Nano- and micro-patterned biomaterials” J. Fudan Univ. – Natural Science 2007, 46: 706.

Marga C. Lensen,* Petra Mela, Ahmed Mourran, Juergen Groll, Jean Heuts, Haitao Rong, Martin Möller: “Micro- and Nanopatterned Star Poly(Ethylene Glycol) (PEG) Materials Prepared by UV-Based Imprint Lithography”, Langmuir 2007, 23(14):7841-7846.

Patent:

Marga C. Lensen, Martin Möller. “Method for preparation of surface-structured bulk hydrogels for bioapplications” European Patent EP 06 011 868.4 2006.