The dissertation “Rethinking the genus Hyphodontia s.l. (Hymenochaetales, Basidiomycota) – investigations on a worldwide scope including new taxonomy, phylogeny, and identification keys” was elaborated by Janett Riebesehl in the Department of Ecology at the University of Kassel. Changing the classification system of the fungal genus Hyphodontia s.l. to treat the species from the broad Hyphodontia s.l. concept by a division into other genera was continued. Hjortstam and Ryvarden (2002, 2009) began the concept, but ...

Diamond is a material with excellent properties due to its structure and composition. Its crystal lattice is a perfect host of different defect centers, so-called color centers, whose properties, especially the capability of emitting single photons, can serve in quantum information technologies (QIT). As a high refractive index material only a small part of the photons emitted by these color centers in diamond can be collected. To enhance the photon collection efficiency photonic structures are necessary. They can ...

Morphology plays a significant role in the research field of organic photovoltaics. In particular, the device performance and efficiency of bulk-heterojunction organic solar cells, relying on the concept of phase-separated donor and acceptor active layers, is strongly affected by morphology. The low dielectric numbers of organic functional materials lead to strong exciton binding energies and short diffusion path lengths therefore demanding an active layer with a bicontinuous interpenetrating donor-acceptor network ...

The main topic of this thesis is to study experimentally an ultrafast and efficient non radiative mechanism – the well-known interatomic Coulombic decay (ICD) – in noble gas clusters by employing fluorescence spectrometry technique in combination with synchrotron radiation. Using Neon clusters as prototype systems, a special variety of ICD, termed resonant ICD (RICD), has been investigated by a selective excitation of one component of the cluster and for different mean cluster sizes. The first part of the thesis ...

Künstliche magnetische Domänenmuster in austauschverschobenen Dünnschichtsystemen (EB-Systeme) haben in den letzten Jahren immer größere Bedeutung als Quelle magnetischer Streufeldlandschaften erlangt. Solche Strukturen dienen als Grundlage für den Transport superparamagnetischer Partikel zur Anwendung in mikrofluidischen und biomedizinischen Analysesystemen. EB-Schichtsysteme besitzen aufgrund der Kopplung zwischen einer antiferromagnetischen und einer ferromagnetischen Schicht besondere magnetische Eigenschaften. ...

Das Design und die Verwendung von Nanostrukturen stehen in den letzten Jahren zunehmend im Fokus gegenwärtiger Forschung und Entwicklung, da die Dimensionen von Speicher- und Analysetechnik auf dem Weg zunehmender Miniaturisierung längst in den Nanometermaßstab vorgedrungen sind. Eine besondere Herausforderung auf diesem Weg stellt das Maßschneidern von Nanostrukturen sowohl topographisch als auch in ihren funktionalen Eigenschaften in allen Raumdimensionen dar. Gleichzeitig verspricht die Erschließung der dritten ...

Comprehensive knowledge of biodiversity is a prerequisite for its long-term conservation and sustainable use. Fungi play crucial roles in ecosystems and are among the species-richest organism groups on Earth. However, all aspects of their diversity remain underexplored. In this study, we aimed to fill the gaps in occurrence data and taxonomy as well as in understanding spatial diversity patterns of aphyllophoroid fungi (non-gilled macroscopic Basidiomycota). We digitized and made openly accessible 4,041 records of ...

Today, laser processing of dielectric materials with ultrashort, femtosecond laser pulses finds a great variety of applications. While ablation, cutting or welding of different types of glasses are widespread and popular examples, nanostructuring of transparent crystals or optoporating cells is part of more recent scientific studies. Although the material systems seem to be very different, their interaction with visible and infrared wavelengths is very similar: the light is simply transmitted. This changes drastically ...

A-Kinase-Ankerproteine (AKAPs) tragen maßgeblich zur Spezifität des ubiquitären cAMP-Signalweges bei. Dies geschieht unter anderem durch die Verankerung der cAMP-abhängigen Proteinkinase (PKA) an verschiedene Zellorganellen, wodurch die PKA-Effekte lokal und zeitlich begrenzt werden. AKAPs variieren erheblich in Größe und Struktur, zeigen aber als gemeinsames Strukturmotiv eine amphipathische Helix auf. Alle vier Isoformen der regulatorischen Untereinheit der PKA (PKA-R) bilden bei Dimerisierung eine hydrophobe ...