Education

• 1996-2000: B.Sc. Messiah College, Grantham, PA; Major - biochemistry, Minor - mathematics
  
• 2000-2002: Masters Thesis - University of Muenster, Germany - equivalent to 'Diplom Arbeit' in Biology
  
• 2002-2004: Dr. rer. nat. - University of Muenster
  Interface physics, Institute for biochemistry and biotechnology of plants, and Clinic for oral and maxillofacial surgery - biomineralization department
• 2004 - present: Postdoctoral research at the Institute for Nanotechnology in the Forschungzentrum Karlsruhe, a German government research center.

Research
Interests/
Experience

• Scanning Probe Microscopy
• Self-Assembly and Self-Organization
• Tissue Engineering
• Langmuir-Blodgett Lithography
• Silicon micro- and nanomachining
• Dip Pen Nanolithography

Selected
Publications

Journal Articles:
• S. Lenhert, P. Sun, Y. Wang, H. Fuchs, C. A. Mirkin (2007) Massively parallel dip-pen nanolithography of heterogeneous supported phospholipid multilayer patterns Small 3 (1) 71 - 75.
• X. C. Wu, S. Lenhert, L. F. Chi, H. Fuchs (2006) Interface interaction controlled transport of CdTe nanoparticles in the microcontact printing process Langmuir 22 (18) 7807-7811.
• S. Lenhert, M. Gleiche, H. Fuchs, L. F. Chi (2005) Mechanism of Regular Pattern Formation in Reactive Dewetting ChemPhysChem, 6 (12) 2495-2498.
• S. Lenhert, M.-B. Meier, U. Meyer, L. F. Chi, H. P. Wiesmann (2005) Osteoblast alignment, elongation and migration on grooved polystyrene surfaces patterned by Langmuir-Blodgett lithography. Biomaterials, 26 (5), 563-570.
• S. Lenhert, L. Zhang, J. Mueller, H. P. Wiesmann, G. Erker, H. Fuchs, L. F. Chi (2004) Self-Organized Complex Patterning: Langmuir-Blodgett Lithography. Adv. Mater., 16, 619-624.
• H. Kirchhoff, M. Borinski, S. Lenhert, L. Chi, C. Buchel, (2004) Transversal and Lateral Exciton Energy Transfer in Grana Thylakoids of Spinach Biochemistry, 43(45), 14508-14516.
• M. Zhang, S. Lenhert, M. Wang, L. F. Chi, Nan Lu, H. Fuchs, N. B. Ming (2004) Regular Arrays of Copper Wires Formed by Template-Assisted Electrodeposition. Adv. Mater. 16, 409-413.
• N. Lu, J. Zheng, S. Lenhert, B. Xu, L. F. Chi, H. Fuchs, (2002) Fabrication of a Chemically Patterned Surface Based on Template Directed Self-Assembly. Adv. Mater. 14, 1812-1815.
• C. M. Niemeyer, M. Adler, S. Lenhert, S. Gao, H. Fuchs, L. F. Chi (2001) Nucleic Acid Supercoiling as a Means for Ionic Switching of DNA-Nanoparticle Networks. ChemBioChem, 260-264.
• S. Gao, L. F. Chi, S. Lenhert, B. Anczykowsky, C. M. Niemeyer, M. Adler, H. Fuchs, (2001) High-Quality Mapping of DNA-Protein Complexes by Dynamic Scanning Force Microscopy. ChemPhysChem, 384-388.
• C. M. Niemeyer, M. Adler, B. Pignataro, S. Lenhert, S. Gao, L. F. Chi, H. Fuchs, D. Blohm (1999) Self-assemply of DNA-streptavidin nanostructures and their use as reagents in immuno-PCR. Nucleic Acids Research 27, 4553-4561.

Book Chapter:
• L. F. Chi, M. Gleiche, S. Lenhert, N. Lu (2003) 'Heterogeneous Surfaces with Nanosized Channel Lattices' in 'Dekker Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology' 1357 - 1367.