@article{1599,
  abstract     = {The addition of polysialic acid to N- and/or O-linked glycans, referred to as polysialylation, is a rare posttranslational modification that is mainly known to control the developmental plasticity of the nervous system. Here we show that CCR7, the central chemokine receptor controlling immune cell trafficking to secondary lymphatic organs, carries polysialic acid. This modification is essential for the recognition of the CCR7 ligand CCL21. As a consequence, dendritic cell trafficking is abrogated in polysialyltransferase-deficient mice, manifesting as disturbed lymph node homeostasis and unresponsiveness to inflammatory stimuli. Structure-function analysis of chemokine-receptor interactions reveals that CCL21 adopts an autoinhibited conformation, which is released upon interaction with polysialic acid. Thus, we describe a glycosylation-mediated immune cell trafficking disorder and its mechanistic basis.
},
  author       = {Kiermaier, Eva and Moussion, Christine and Veldkamp, Christopher and Gerardy  Schahn, Rita and De Vries, Ingrid and Williams, Larry and Chaffee, Gary and Phillips, Andrew and Freiberger, Friedrich and Imre, Richard and Taleski, Deni and Payne, Richard and Braun, Asolina and Förster, Reinhold and Mechtler, Karl and Mühlenhoff, Martina and Volkman, Brian and Sixt, Michael K},
  journal      = {Science},
  number       = {6269},
  pages        = {186 -- 190},
  publisher    = {American Association for the Advancement of Science},
  title        = {{Polysialylation controls dendritic cell trafficking by regulating chemokine recognition}},
  doi          = {10.1126/science.aad0512},
  volume       = {351},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1608,
  abstract     = {We show that the Anderson model has a transition from localization to delocalization at exactly 2 dimensional growth rate on antitrees with normalized edge weights which are certain discrete graphs. The kinetic part has a one-dimensional structure allowing a description through transfer matrices which involve some Schur complement. For such operators we introduce the notion of having one propagating channel and extend theorems from the theory of one-dimensional Jacobi operators that relate the behavior of transfer matrices with the spectrum. These theorems are then applied to the considered model. In essence, in a certain energy region the kinetic part averages the random potentials along shells and the transfer matrices behave similar as for a one-dimensional operator with random potential of decaying variance. At d dimensional growth for d&gt;2 this effective decay is strong enough to obtain absolutely continuous spectrum, whereas for some uniform d dimensional growth with d&lt;2 one has pure point spectrum in this energy region. At exactly uniform 2 dimensional growth also some singular continuous spectrum appears, at least at small disorder. As a corollary we also obtain a change from singular spectrum (d≤2) to absolutely continuous spectrum (d≥3) for random operators of the type rΔdr+λ on ℤd, where r is an orthogonal radial projection, Δd the discrete adjacency operator (Laplacian) on ℤd and λ a random potential. },
  author       = {Sadel, Christian},
  journal      = {Annales Henri Poincare},
  number       = {7},
  pages        = {1631 -- 1675},
  publisher    = {Birkhäuser},
  title        = {{Anderson transition at 2 dimensional growth rate on antitrees and spectral theory for operators with one propagating channel}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00023-015-0456-3},
  volume       = {17},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1612,
  abstract     = {We prove that whenever A is a 3-conservative relational structure with only binary and unary relations,then the algebra of polymorphisms of A either has no Taylor operation (i.e.,CSP(A)is NP-complete),or it generates an SD(∧) variety (i.e.,CSP(A)has bounded width).},
  author       = {Kazda, Alexandr},
  journal      = {Algebra Universalis},
  number       = {1},
  pages        = {75 -- 84},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{CSP for binary conservative relational structures}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00012-015-0358-8},
  volume       = {75},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1613,
  abstract     = {In the last decade, induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells have revolutionized the utility of human in vitro models of neurological disease. The iPS-derived and differentiated cells allow researchers to study the impact of a distinct cell type in health and disease as well as performing therapeutic drug screens on a human genetic background. In particular, clinical trials for Alzheimer's disease (AD) have been often failing. Two of the potential reasons are first, the species gap involved in proceeding from initial discoveries in rodent models to human studies, and second, an unsatisfying patient stratification, meaning subgrouping patients based on the disease severity due to the lack of phenotypic and genetic markers. iPS cells overcome this obstacles and will improve our understanding of disease subtypes in AD. They allow researchers conducting in depth characterization of neural cells from both familial and sporadic AD patients as well as preclinical screens on human cells.

In this review, we briefly outline the status quo of iPS cell research in neurological diseases along with the general advantages and pitfalls of these models. We summarize how genome-editing techniques such as CRISPR/Cas will allow researchers to reduce the problem of genomic variability inherent to human studies, followed by recent iPS cell studies relevant to AD. We then focus on current techniques for the differentiation of iPS cells into neural cell types that are relevant to AD research. Finally, we discuss how the generation of three-dimensional cell culture systems will be important for understanding AD phenotypes in a complex cellular milieu, and how both two- and three-dimensional iPS cell models can provide platforms for drug discovery and translational studies into the treatment of AD.},
  author       = {Mungenast, Alison and Siegert, Sandra and Tsai, Li},
  journal      = {Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience},
  pages        = {13 -- 31},
  publisher    = {Academic Press},
  title        = {{Modeling Alzheimer's disease with human induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells}},
  doi          = {doi:10.1016/j.mcn.2015.11.010},
  volume       = {73},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1616,
  abstract     = {The hippocampus plays a key role in learning and memory. Previous studies suggested that the main types of principal neurons, dentate gyrus granule cells (GCs), CA3 pyramidal neurons, and CA1 pyramidal neurons, differ in their activity pattern, with sparse firing in GCs and more frequent firing in CA3 and CA1 pyramidal neurons. It has been assumed but never shown that such different activity may be caused by differential synaptic excitation. To test this hypothesis, we performed high-resolution whole-cell patch-clamp recordings in anesthetized rats in vivo. In contrast to previous in vitro data, both CA3 and CA1 pyramidal neurons fired action potentials spontaneously, with a frequency of ∼3–6 Hz, whereas GCs were silent. Furthermore, both CA3 and CA1 cells primarily fired in bursts. To determine the underlying mechanisms, we quantitatively assessed the frequency of spontaneous excitatory synaptic input, the passive membrane properties, and the active membrane characteristics. Surprisingly, GCs showed comparable synaptic excitation to CA3 and CA1 cells and the highest ratio of excitation versus hyperpolarizing inhibition. Thus, differential synaptic excitation is not responsible for differences in firing. Moreover, the three types of hippocampal neurons markedly differed in their passive properties. While GCs showed the most negative membrane potential, CA3 pyramidal neurons had the highest input resistance and the slowest membrane time constant. The three types of neurons also differed in the active membrane characteristics. GCs showed the highest action potential threshold, but displayed the largest gain of the input-output curves. In conclusion, our results reveal that differential firing of the three main types of hippocampal principal neurons in vivo is not primarily caused by differences in the characteristics of the synaptic input, but by the distinct properties of synaptic integration and input-output transformation.},
  author       = {Kowalski, Janina and Gan, Jian and Jonas, Peter M and Pernia-Andrade, Alejandro},
  issn         = {1098-1063},
  journal      = {Hippocampus},
  number       = {5},
  pages        = {668 -- 682},
  publisher    = {Wiley},
  title        = {{Intrinsic membrane properties determine hippocampal differential firing pattern in vivo in anesthetized rats}},
  doi          = {10.1002/hipo.22550},
  volume       = {26},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1617,
  abstract     = {We study the discrepancy of jittered sampling sets: such a set P⊂ [0,1]d is generated for fixed m∈ℕ by partitioning [0,1]d into md axis aligned cubes of equal measure and placing a random point inside each of the N=md cubes. We prove that, for N sufficiently large, 1/10 d/N1/2+1/2d ≤EDN∗(P)≤ √d(log N) 1/2/N1/2+1/2d, where the upper bound with an unspecified constant Cd was proven earlier by Beck. Our proof makes crucial use of the sharp Dvoretzky-Kiefer-Wolfowitz inequality and a suitably taylored Bernstein inequality; we have reasons to believe that the upper bound has the sharp scaling in N. Additional heuristics suggest that jittered sampling should be able to improve known bounds on the inverse of the star-discrepancy in the regime N≳dd. We also prove a partition principle showing that every partition of [0,1]d combined with a jittered sampling construction gives rise to a set whose expected squared L2-discrepancy is smaller than that of purely random points.},
  author       = {Pausinger, Florian and Steinerberger, Stefan},
  journal      = {Journal of Complexity},
  pages        = {199 -- 216},
  publisher    = {Academic Press},
  title        = {{On the discrepancy of jittered sampling}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.jco.2015.11.003},
  volume       = {33},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1620,
  abstract     = {We consider the Bardeen–Cooper–Schrieffer free energy functional for particles interacting via a two-body potential on a microscopic scale and in the presence of weak external fields varying on a macroscopic scale. We study the influence of the external fields on the critical temperature. We show that in the limit where the ratio between the microscopic and macroscopic scale tends to zero, the next to leading order of the critical temperature is determined by the lowest eigenvalue of the linearization of the Ginzburg–Landau equation.},
  author       = {Frank, Rupert and Hainzl, Christian and Seiringer, Robert and Solovej, Jan},
  journal      = {Communications in Mathematical Physics},
  number       = {1},
  pages        = {189 -- 216},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{The external field dependence of the BCS critical temperature}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00220-015-2526-2},
  volume       = {342},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1622,
  abstract     = {We prove analogues of the Lieb–Thirring and Hardy–Lieb–Thirring inequalities for many-body quantum systems with fractional kinetic operators and homogeneous interaction potentials, where no anti-symmetry on the wave functions is assumed. These many-body inequalities imply interesting one-body interpolation inequalities, and we show that the corresponding one- and many-body inequalities are actually equivalent in certain cases.},
  author       = {Lundholm, Douglas and Nam, Phan and Portmann, Fabian},
  journal      = {Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis},
  number       = {3},
  pages        = {1343 -- 1382},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{Fractional Hardy–Lieb–Thirring and related Inequalities for interacting systems}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00205-015-0923-5},
  volume       = {219},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1631,
  abstract     = {Ancestral processes are fundamental to modern population genetics and spatial structure has been the subject of intense interest for many years. Despite this interest, almost nothing is known about the distribution of the locations of pedigree or genetic ancestors. Using both spatially continuous and stepping-stone models, we show that the distribution of pedigree ancestors approaches a travelling wave, for which we develop two alternative approximations. The speed and width of the wave are sensitive to the local details of the model. After a short time, genetic ancestors spread far more slowly than pedigree ancestors, ultimately diffusing out with radius ## rather than spreading at constant speed. In contrast to the wave of pedigree ancestors, the spread of genetic ancestry is insensitive to the local details of the models.},
  author       = {Kelleher, Jerome and Etheridge, Alison and Véber, Amandine and Barton, Nicholas H},
  journal      = {Theoretical Population Biology},
  pages        = {1 -- 12},
  publisher    = {Academic Press},
  title        = {{Spread of pedigree versus genetic ancestry in spatially distributed populations}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.tpb.2015.10.008},
  volume       = {108},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1641,
  abstract     = {The plant hormone auxin (indole-3-acetic acid) is a major regulator of plant growth and development including embryo and root patterning, lateral organ formation and growth responses to environmental stimuli. Auxin is directionally transported from cell to cell by the action of specific auxin influx [AUXIN-RESISTANT1 (AUX1)] and efflux [PIN-FORMED (PIN)] transport regulators, whose polar, subcellular localizations are aligned with the direction of the auxin flow. Auxin itself regulates its own transport by modulation of the expression and subcellular localization of the auxin transporters. Increased auxin levels promote the transcription of PIN2 and AUX1 genes as well as stabilize PIN proteins at the plasma membrane, whereas prolonged auxin exposure increases the turnover of PIN proteins and their degradation in the vacuole. In this study, we applied a forward genetic approach, to identify molecular components playing a role in the auxin-mediated degradation. We generated EMS-mutagenized Arabidopsis PIN2::PIN2:GFP, AUX1::AUX1:YFP eir1aux1 populations and designed a screen for mutants with persistently strong fluorescent signals of the tagged PIN2 and AUX1 after prolonged treatment with the synthetic auxin 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4-D). This approach yielded novel auxin degradation mutants defective in trafficking and degradation of PIN2 and AUX1 proteins and established a role for auxin-mediated degradation in plant development.},
  author       = {Zemová, Radka and Zwiewka, Marta and Bielach, Agnieszka and Robert, Hélène and Friml, Jirí},
  journal      = {Journal of Plant Growth Regulation},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {465 -- 476},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{A forward genetic screen for new regulators of auxin mediated degradation of auxin transport proteins in Arabidopsis thaliana}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00344-015-9553-2},
  volume       = {35},
  year         = {2016},
}

@inproceedings{1653,
  abstract     = {A somewhere statistically binding (SSB) hash, introduced by Hubáček and Wichs (ITCS ’15), can be used to hash a long string x to a short digest y = H hk (x) using a public hashing-key hk. Furthermore, there is a way to set up the hash key hk to make it statistically binding on some arbitrary hidden position i, meaning that: (1) the digest y completely determines the i’th bit (or symbol) of x so that all pre-images of y have the same value in the i’th position, (2) it is computationally infeasible to distinguish the position i on which hk is statistically binding from any other position i’. Lastly, the hash should have a local opening property analogous to Merkle-Tree hashing, meaning that given x and y = H hk (x) it should be possible to create a short proof π that certifies the value of the i’th bit (or symbol) of x without having to provide the entire input x. A similar primitive called a positional accumulator, introduced by Koppula, Lewko and Waters (STOC ’15) further supports dynamic updates of the hashed value. These tools, which are interesting in their own right, also serve as one of the main technical components in several recent works building advanced applications from indistinguishability obfuscation (iO).

The prior constructions of SSB hashing and positional accumulators required fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) and iO respectively. In this work, we give new constructions of these tools based on well studied number-theoretic assumptions such as DDH, Phi-Hiding and DCR, as well as a general construction from lossy/injective functions.},
  author       = {Okamoto, Tatsuaki and Pietrzak, Krzysztof Z and Waters, Brent and Wichs, Daniel},
  location     = {Auckland, New Zealand},
  pages        = {121 -- 145},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{New realizations of somewhere statistically binding hashing and positional accumulators}},
  doi          = {10.1007/978-3-662-48797-6_6},
  volume       = {9452},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1662,
  abstract     = {We introduce a modification of the classic notion of intrinsic volume using persistence moments of height functions. Evaluating the modified first intrinsic volume on digital approximations of a compact body with smoothly embedded boundary in Rn, we prove convergence to the first intrinsic volume of the body as the resolution of the approximation improves. We have weaker results for the other modified intrinsic volumes, proving they converge to the corresponding intrinsic volumes of the n-dimensional unit ball.},
  author       = {Edelsbrunner, Herbert and Pausinger, Florian},
  journal      = {Advances in Mathematics},
  pages        = {674 -- 703},
  publisher    = {Academic Press},
  title        = {{Approximation and convergence of the intrinsic volume}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.aim.2015.10.004},
  volume       = {287},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1705,
  abstract     = {Hybrid systems represent an important and powerful formalism for modeling real-world applications such as embedded systems. A verification tool like SpaceEx is based on the exploration of a symbolic search space (the region space). As a verification tool, it is typically optimized towards proving the absence of errors. In some settings, e.g., when the verification tool is employed in a feedback-directed design cycle, one would like to have the option to call a version that is optimized towards finding an error trajectory in the region space. A recent approach in this direction is based on guided search. Guided search relies on a cost function that indicates which states are promising to be explored, and preferably explores more promising states first. In this paper, we propose an abstraction-based cost function based on coarse-grained space abstractions for guiding the reachability analysis. For this purpose, a suitable abstraction technique that exploits the flexible granularity of modern reachability analysis algorithms is introduced. The new cost function is an effective extension of pattern database approaches that have been successfully applied in other areas. The approach has been implemented in the SpaceEx model checker. The evaluation shows its practical potential.},
  author       = {Bogomolov, Sergiy and Donzé, Alexandre and Frehse, Goran and Grosu, Radu and Johnson, Taylor and Ladan, Hamed and Podelski, Andreas and Wehrle, Martin},
  journal      = {International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer},
  number       = {4},
  pages        = {449 -- 467},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{Guided search for hybrid systems based on coarse-grained space abstractions}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s10009-015-0393-y},
  volume       = {18},
  year         = {2016},
}

@inproceedings{1707,
  abstract     = {Volunteer supporters play an important role in modern crisis and disaster management. In the times of mobile Internet devices, help from thousands of volunteers can be requested within a short time span, thus relieving professional helpers from minor chores or geographically spread-out tasks. However, the simultaneous availability of many volunteers also poses new problems. In particular, the volunteer efforts must be well coordinated, or otherwise situations might emerge in which too many idle volunteers at one location become more of a burden than a relief to the professionals.
In this work, we study the task of optimally assigning volunteers to selected locations, e.g. in order to perform regular measurements, to report on damage, or to distribute information or resources to the population in a crisis situation. We formulate the assignment tasks as an optimization problem and propose an effective and efficient solution procedure. Experiments on real data of the Team Österreich, consisting of over 36,000 Austrian volunteers, show the effectiveness and efficiency of our approach.},
  author       = {Pielorz, Jasmin and Lampert, Christoph},
  location     = {Rennes, France},
  publisher    = {IEEE},
  title        = {{Optimal geospatial allocation of volunteers for crisis management}},
  doi          = {10.1109/ICT-DM.2015.7402041},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{173,
  abstract     = {We calculate admissible values of r such that a square-free polynomial with integer coefficients, no fixed prime divisor and irreducible factors of degree at most 3 takes infinitely many values that are a product of at most r distinct primes.},
  author       = {Browning, Timothy D and Booker, Andrew},
  journal      = {Discrete Analysis},
  pages        = {1 -- 18},
  title        = {{Square-free values of reducible polynomials}},
  doi          = {10.19086/da.732},
  volume       = {8},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1794,
  abstract     = {We consider Conditional random fields (CRFs) with pattern-based potentials defined on a chain. In this model the energy of a string (labeling) (Formula presented.) is the sum of terms over intervals [i, j] where each term is non-zero only if the substring (Formula presented.) equals a prespecified pattern w. Such CRFs can be naturally applied to many sequence tagging problems. We present efficient algorithms for the three standard inference tasks in a CRF, namely computing (i) the partition function, (ii) marginals, and (iii) computing the MAP. Their complexities are respectively (Formula presented.), (Formula presented.) and (Formula presented.) where L is the combined length of input patterns, (Formula presented.) is the maximum length of a pattern, and D is the input alphabet. This improves on the previous algorithms of Ye et al. (NIPS, 2009) whose complexities are respectively (Formula presented.), (Formula presented.) and (Formula presented.), where (Formula presented.) is the number of input patterns. In addition, we give an efficient algorithm for sampling, and revisit the case of MAP with non-positive weights.},
  author       = {Kolmogorov, Vladimir and Takhanov, Rustem},
  journal      = {Algorithmica},
  number       = {1},
  pages        = {17 -- 46},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{Inference algorithms for pattern-based CRFs on sequence data}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00453-015-0017-7},
  volume       = {76},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1833,
  abstract     = {Relational models for contingency tables are generalizations of log-linear models, allowing effects associated with arbitrary subsets of cells in the table, and not necessarily containing the overall effect, that is, a common parameter in every cell. Similarly to log-linear models, relational models can be extended to non-negative distributions, but the extension requires more complex methods. An extended relational model is defined as an algebraic variety, and it turns out to be the closure of the original model with respect to the Bregman divergence. In the extended relational model, the MLE of the cell parameters always exists and is unique, but some of its properties may be different from those of the MLE under log-linear models. The MLE can be computed using a generalized iterative scaling procedure based on Bregman projections. },
  author       = {Klimova, Anna and Rudas, Tamás},
  journal      = {Journal of Multivariate Analysis},
  pages        = {440 -- 452},
  publisher    = {Elsevier},
  title        = {{On the closure of relational models}},
  doi          = {10.1016/j.jmva.2015.10.005},
  volume       = {143},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{1881,
  abstract     = {We consider random matrices of the form H=W+λV, λ∈ℝ+, where W is a real symmetric or complex Hermitian Wigner matrix of size N and V is a real bounded diagonal random matrix of size N with i.i.d.\ entries that are independent of W. We assume subexponential decay for the matrix entries of W and we choose λ∼1, so that the eigenvalues of W and λV are typically of the same order. Further, we assume that the density of the entries of V is supported on a single interval and is convex near the edges of its support. In this paper we prove that there is λ+∈ℝ+ such that the largest eigenvalues of H are in the limit of large N determined by the order statistics of V for λ&gt;λ+. In particular, the largest eigenvalue of H has a Weibull distribution in the limit N→∞ if λ&gt;λ+. Moreover, for N sufficiently large, we show that the eigenvectors associated to the largest eigenvalues are partially localized for λ&gt;λ+, while they are completely delocalized for λ&lt;λ+. Similar results hold for the lowest eigenvalues. },
  author       = {Lee, Jioon and Schnelli, Kevin},
  journal      = {Probability Theory and Related Fields},
  number       = {1-2},
  pages        = {165 -- 241},
  publisher    = {Springer},
  title        = {{Extremal eigenvalues and eigenvectors of deformed Wigner matrices}},
  doi          = {10.1007/s00440-014-0610-8},
  volume       = {164},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{13385,
  abstract     = {Novel light-responsive nanoparticles were synthesized by decorating the surfaces of gold and silver nanoparticles with a nitrospiropyran molecular photoswitch. Upon exposure to UV light in nonpolar solvents, these nanoparticles self-assembled to afford spherical aggregates, which disassembled rapidly when the UV stimulus was turned off. The sizes of these aggregates depended on the nanoparticle concentration, and their lifetimes could be controlled by adjusting the surface concentration of nitrospiropyran on the nanoparticles. The conformational flexibility of nitrospiropyran, which was altered by modifying the structure of the background ligand, had a profound impact on the self-assembly process. By coating the nanoparticles with a spiropyran lacking the nitro group, a conceptually different self-assembly system, relying on a reversible proton transfer, was realized. The resulting particles spontaneously (in the dark) assembled into aggregates that could be readily disassembled upon exposure to blue light.},
  author       = {Kundu, Pintu K. and Das, Sanjib and Ahrens, Johannes and Klajn, Rafal},
  issn         = {2040-3372},
  journal      = {Nanoscale},
  keywords     = {General Materials Science},
  number       = {46},
  pages        = {19280--19286},
  publisher    = {Royal Society of Chemistry},
  title        = {{Controlling the lifetimes of dynamic nanoparticle aggregates by spiropyran functionalization}},
  doi          = {10.1039/c6nr05959g},
  volume       = {8},
  year         = {2016},
}

@article{13386,
  abstract     = {Azobenzenealkanethiols in self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on Au(111) exhibit reversible trans–cis photoisomerization when diluted with alkanethiol spacers. Using these mixed SAMs, we show switching of the linear optical and second-harmonic response. The effective switching of these surface optical properties relies on a reasonably large cross section and a high photoisomerization yield as well as a long lifetime of the metastable cis isomer. We quantified the switching process by X-ray absorption spectroscopy. The cross sections for the trans–cis and cis–trans photoisomerization with 365 and 455 nm light, respectively, are 1 order of magnitude smaller than in solution. In vacuum, the 365 nm photostationary state comprises 50–74% of the molecules in the cis form, limited by their rapid thermal isomerization back to the trans state. In contrast, the 455 nm photostationary state contains nearly 100% trans-azobenzene. We determined time constants for the thermal cis–trans isomerization of only a few minutes in vacuum and in a dry nitrogen atmosphere but of more than 1 day in ambient air. Our results suggest that adventitious water adsorbed on the surface of the SAM stabilizes the polar cis configuration of azobenzene under ambient conditions. The back reaction rate constants differing by 2 orders of magnitude underline the huge influence of the environment and, accordingly, its importance when comparing various experiments.},
  author       = {Moldt, Thomas and Przyrembel, Daniel and Schulze, Michael and Bronsch, Wibke and Boie, Larissa and Brete, Daniel and Gahl, Cornelius and Klajn, Rafal and Tegeder, Petra and Weinelt, Martin},
  issn         = {1520-5827},
  journal      = {Langmuir},
  keywords     = {Electrochemistry, Spectroscopy, Surfaces and Interfaces, Condensed Matter Physics, General Materials Science},
  number       = {42},
  pages        = {10795--10801},
  publisher    = {American Chemical Society},
  title        = {{Differing isomerization kinetics of azobenzene-functionalized self-assembled monolayers in ambient air and in vacuum}},
  doi          = {10.1021/acs.langmuir.6b01690},
  volume       = {32},
  year         = {2016},
}

