Ernst‐Ludwig Florin

9.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
59 papers, 7.3k citations indexed

About

Ernst‐Ludwig Florin is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Biomedical Engineering and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Ernst‐Ludwig Florin has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 7.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 25 papers in Biomedical Engineering and 19 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Ernst‐Ludwig Florin's work include Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (28 papers), Near-Field Optical Microscopy (14 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (12 papers). Ernst‐Ludwig Florin is often cited by papers focused on Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications (28 papers), Near-Field Optical Microscopy (14 papers) and Orbital Angular Momentum in Optics (12 papers). Ernst‐Ludwig Florin collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Switzerland. Ernst‐Ludwig Florin's co-authors include Hermann E. Gaub, Vincent T. Moy, Arnd Pralle, J. K. H. Hörber, Ernst H. K. Stelzer, Avraham Be’er, Harry L. Swinney, Hepeng Zhang, Patrick Keller and Kai Simons and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ernst‐Ludwig Florin

56 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Adhesion Forces Between Individual Ligand-Receptor Pairs

1994 1.5k citations Ernst‐Ludwig Florin et al. profile →
Sphingolipid–Cholesterol Rafts Diffuse as Small Entities in the Plasma Membrane of Mammalian Cells

2000 821 citations Arnd Pralle, Patrick Keller et al. The Journal of Cell Biology profile →
Intermolecular Forces and Energies Between Ligands and Receptors

1994 698 citations Ernst‐Ludwig Florin et al. profile →
Collective motion and density fluctuations in bacterial colonies

2010 548 citations Hepeng Zhang, Avraham Be’er et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
Sensing specific molecular interactions with the atomic force microscope

1995 399 citations Ernst‐Ludwig Florin et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ernst‐Ludwig Florin Germany	32	4.0k	2.3k	2.3k	1.3k	1.2k	59	7.3k
Stephan Block Germany	33	2.5k 0.6×	2.5k 1.1×	2.7k 1.2×	675 0.5×	605 0.5×	98	6.8k
Vincent Croquette France	52	3.0k 0.7×	2.8k 1.2×	6.6k 2.9×	556 0.4×	950 0.8×	138	10.8k
Dario Anselmetti Germany	41	2.9k 0.7×	2.4k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	505 0.4×	1.9k 1.5×	227	7.2k
Keir C. Neuman United States	35	3.4k 0.8×	2.8k 1.2×	3.1k 1.3×	711 0.6×	722 0.6×	101	7.7k
Christoph F. Schmidt Germany	52	3.7k 0.9×	3.3k 1.4×	4.1k 1.8×	4.1k 3.3×	709 0.6×	135	11.8k
David Bensimon France	52	2.6k 0.6×	2.3k 1.0×	5.6k 2.4×	431 0.3×	818 0.7×	130	10.1k
Lene B. Oddershede Denmark	45	2.2k 0.5×	2.8k 1.2×	1.8k 0.8×	618 0.5×	467 0.4×	132	6.4k
Steven B. Smith United States	30	5.3k 1.3×	3.2k 1.4×	5.4k 2.3×	744 0.6×	1.0k 0.8×	39	10.7k
Robijn Bruinsma United States	58	2.7k 0.7×	1.7k 0.7×	3.3k 1.4×	741 0.6×	726 0.6×	220	10.5k
Jan Liphardt United States	37	2.1k 0.5×	3.4k 1.4×	4.1k 1.8×	1.0k 0.8×	1.1k 0.9×	60	9.8k

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Liu, Minghua, et al.. (2019). Glucose starvation triggers filamentous septin assemblies in an S. pombe septin-2 deletion mutant. Biology Open. 8(1). 5 indexed citations

Heimlicher, Maria B., et al.. (2019). Reversible solidification of fission yeast cytoplasm after prolonged nutrient starvation. Journal of Cell Science. 132(21). 14 indexed citations

Lin, Linhan, Mingsong Wang, Xiaolei Peng, et al.. (2018). Opto-thermoelectric nanotweezers. Nature Photonics. 12(4). 195–201. 222 indexed citations

Florin, Ernst‐Ludwig, et al.. (2016). Direct observation of intermediate states in model membrane fusion. Scientific Reports. 6(1). 23691–23691. 14 indexed citations

Lange, Janina, et al.. (2016). Nanoscopic imaging of thick heterogeneous soft-matter structures in aqueous solution. Nature Communications. 7(1). 12729–12729. 13 indexed citations

Longoria, Rafael A., et al.. (2013). Lipid Droplets Purified from Drosophila Embryos as an Endogenous Handle for Precise Single Molecule Measurements. Biophysical Journal. 104(2). 475a–476a. 2 indexed citations

Be’er, Avraham, Ernst‐Ludwig Florin, Carolyn R. Fisher, Harry L. Swinney, & Shelley M. Payne. (2011). Surviving Bacterial Sibling Rivalry: Inducible and Reversible Phenotypic Switching in Paenibacillus dendritiformis. mBio. 2(3). e00069–11. 18 indexed citations

Be’er, Avraham, Hepeng Zhang, Ernst‐Ludwig Florin, et al.. (2009). Deadly competition between sibling bacterial colonies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106(2). 428–433. 91 indexed citations

Huang, Rongxin, et al.. (2009). Detecting Sequential Bond Formation Using Three‐Dimensional Thermal Fluctuation Analysis. ChemPhysChem. 10(9-10). 1541–1547. 14 indexed citations

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Pampaloni, Francesco & Ernst‐Ludwig Florin. (2008). Microtubule architecture: inspiration for novel carbon nanotube-based biomimetic materials. Trends in biotechnology. 26(6). 302–310. 95 indexed citations

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Florin, Ernst‐Ludwig, et al.. (2008). Docking of Liposomes to Planar Surfaces Mediated by trans-SNARE Complexes. Biophysical Journal. 95(3). 1295–1302. 8 indexed citations

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Taute, Katja M., Francesco Pampaloni, Erwin Frey, & Ernst‐Ludwig Florin. (2008). Microtubule Dynamics Depart from the Wormlike Chain Model. Physical Review Letters. 100(2). 28102–28102. 67 indexed citations

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Lukić, Branimir, et al.. (2007). Motion of a colloidal particle in an optical trap. Physical Review E. 76(1). 11112–11112. 52 indexed citations

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Lukić, Branimir, Sylvia Jeney, Christian Tischer, et al.. (2005). Direct Observation of Nondiffusive Motion of a Brownian Particle. Physical Review Letters. 95(16). 160601–160601. 121 indexed citations

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Jeney, Sylvia, Ernst H. K. Stelzer, Helmut Grubmüller, & Ernst‐Ludwig Florin. (2004). Mechanical Properties of Single Motor Molecules Studied by Three‐Dimensional Thermal Force Probing in Optical Tweezers. ChemPhysChem. 5(8). 1150–1158. 52 indexed citations

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Pralle, Arnd & Ernst‐Ludwig Florin. (2002). Cellular Membranes Studied by Photonic Force Microscopy. Methods in cell biology. 68. 193–212. 7 indexed citations

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Jonáš, Alexandr, Pavel Zemánek, & Ernst‐Ludwig Florin. (2001). Single-beam trapping in front of reflective surfaces. Optics Letters. 26(19). 1466–1466. 39 indexed citations

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Jeney, Sylvia, Ernst‐Ludwig Florin, & J. K. H. Hörber. (2001). Use of Photonic Force Microscopy to Study Single-Motor-Molecule Mechanics. Humana Press eBooks. 164. 91–108. 8 indexed citations

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Pralle, Arnd, Patrick Keller, Ernst‐Ludwig Florin, Kai Simons, & J. K. H. Hörber. (2000). Sphingolipid–Cholesterol Rafts Diffuse as Small Entities in the Plasma Membrane of Mammalian Cells. The Journal of Cell Biology. 148(5). 997–1008. 821 indexed citations breakdown →

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Pralle, Arnd, Ernst‐Ludwig Florin, Ernst H. K. Stelzer, & J. K. H. Hörber. (1998). Local viscosity probed by photonic force microscopy. Applied Physics A. 66(7). S71–S73. 88 indexed citations

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