Alexander Tesler
Dr. Alexander Tesler
Lehrstuhl für Biophysik (Prof. Dr. Fabry)
- Phone number: +49 9131 85-27591
- Email: alexander.tesler@fau.de
Dr. Alexander Tesler is a researcher at the Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. He received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Technion and a Ph.D. in Chemistry of Materials from the Department of Materials and Interfaces at the Weizmann Institute of Science under the supervision of Prof. Israel Rubinstein. After graduation, he spent several years at the Wyss Institute for Bioinspired Engineering and the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences at Harvard University studying mechanically durable omniphobic liquid-infused slippery surfaces. His scientific interests ranged from non-wettable ultra-repellent surfaces for preventing corrosion and biofouling, self-assembling monolayers, and plasmonic sensing to electrochemical methods for creating smart nanomaterials.
2024 – Research Scientist, Institute of Biophysics, Department of Physics, Faculty of Sciences, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany. “Ultra-slippery, thermodynamically stable wetting-repellent surfaces”.
2019 – 2024 Postdoctoral fellow, Scientific Council for Chemistry, Institute of Corrosion and Surface Science, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. Advisor: Prof. Dr. Ben Fabry and Prof. Dr. Wolfgang H. Goldmann. Title; “Development of a multistage strategy for anti-biofouling coatings by combining non-toxic antifouling photocatalytic TiO2 and TiO2/WO3 nanostructured films with fouling release slippery liquid-infused porous surfaces (SLISP) approaches”. Prof. Dr. Patrik Schmuki. Title: “Metallic Nanoparticle-on-Mirror Approach Enabling Multiple-Band Light Harvesting to Enhance Photoelectrochemical Activity in the Visible Spectral Range”.
2018 – 2019 Visiting Scientist in the group of Prof. Xu Hou, College of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Collaborative Innovation Center of Chemistry for Energy Materials, State Key Laboratory of Physical Chemistry of Solid Surfaces, Xiamen University, Xiamen, China. Title: “A Development of Electrochemical Methods to Create Metallic Liquid-Gating Membranes with High-Pressure and Temperature Stability, Controllable Gas/Liquid Selectivity, Enhanced Energy Efficiency, and Anti-Fouling Properties”.
2015 – 2017 Project Leader, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. In collaboration with Chemical Division, Nuclear Research Center Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel. Title: “Ultrasensitive Colorimetric Detection of Earlier Stages of Aluminum Corrosion Using Plasmonic Gold Nano Particles”.
2013 – 2015 Postdoctoral Fellow, School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS), WYSS Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, USA. Advisor: Prof. Joanna Aizenberg. Title: “Formation of Mechanically Durable Omniphobic Surfaces as a Uniform Platform for Anti-icing, Anti-corrosive, Antibacterial, and Marine Anti-Biofouling Applications”.
2007 – 2008 Research Fellow, Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel. Advisor: Prof. Israel Rubinstein. Title: “Solid-State Dewetting of Ultrathin Gold Films on Ceramic Substrates”.
2020 The Emerging Talents Initiative (ETI-2020) of Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, Erlangen, Germany.
2017 Winner of the Soft Matter poster prize contest at the 31st European Conference for Colloid and Interface Society, (ECIS-31), Madrid, Spain. “Mimicking a lotus leaf ultra-hydrophobicity at home: a facile method to prepare mechanically durable superhydrophobic titanium”.
2013 – 2015 Postdoctoral research fellowship, WYSS Institute for Bioinspired Engineering and School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, USA.
2008 – 2012 Weizmann Institute Ph.D. scholarship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.
2003 Prize of “Tosaf Group” Company for Excellence in Polymer Sciences, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.
2002, 2003 Chemical Engineering Dean’s Award for Excellence, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.
2001, 2003 Technion President Award for Excellence, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Israel.
2022 Tesler, A.B., Goldmann, W.H., Prado, L., Khusniyarov, M.M., Thievessen, I., Mazare, A., Virtanen, S., Fischer, L., “Silicone- or fluorosilicone-coated solid substrates and process for their preparation”, Worldwide patent: WO2022207703A1.
2021 Tesler, A.B., Goldmann, W.H., Prado, L., Khusniyarov, M.M., Thievessen, I., Mazare, A., Virtanen, S., Fischer, L., “Silicone- or fluorosilicone-coated solid substrates and process for their preparation”, European Patent: EP4067448A1.
2015 Aizenberg, J., Hou, X., Khan, M., Tesler, A.B. “Fluid-based Gating Mechanism with Tunable Multiphase Selectivity and Antifouling Behavior”, Worldwide patent: WO2016130558 A1, US Patent: US10330218 B2.
2026
- Directional Copper Decoration of Spaced TiO2 Nanotubes Enables Geometry-Controlled Ion Release and Antibacterial Response
In ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, volume 18, number 3, pp. 6157–6165, 2026. - Advances in Antibacterial, Anti‐Biofouling, and Corrosion‐Resistant Surface Technologies
In Cell Biology International, volume 50, number 2, pp. e70140, 2026. - Advanced Characterization of Plastron on Cassie–Baxter Superhydrophobic Surfaces by Drop Adhesion Force
In Langmuir, volume 42, number 12, pp. 8280–8289, 2026. - Drop Adhesion Force as a Measure of the Solid–Liquid Area Fraction on Cassie–Baxter Superhydrophobic Surfaces
In Langmuir, volume 42, number 12, pp. 8269–8279, 2026.
2025
- Binding Kinetics of Self-Assembled Monolayers of Fluorinated Phosphate Ester on Metal Oxides for Underwater Aerophilicity
In Langmuir, volume 41, number 3, pp. 1868–1875, 2025. - Anti‐Biofouling Coatings Based on Ultra‐Slippery Surfaces
In Cell Biology International, pp. cbin.70065, 2025.
2024
- Corrosion Resistance of Biodegradable Zinc Surfaces Enhanced by UV-Grafted Polydimethylsiloxane Coating
In ACS Biomater Sci Eng, 2024. - Performance of environmentally friendly, liquid-infused coatings against biofouling: evaluation of macrofouling and microbially induced corrosion in freshwater environments
In Journal of Materials Chemistry A, pp. 10.1039.D4TA00741G, 2024. - Nanoscale Topography of Anodic TiO $_{\textrm{2}}$ Nanostructures Is Crucial for Cell–Surface Interactions
In ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, volume 16, number 4, pp. 4430–4438, 2024. - Enhanced Photocatalytic H $_{\textrm{2}}$ Generation by Light‐Induced Carbon Modification of TiO $_{\textrm{2}}$ Nanotubes
In ChemistryOpen, volume 13, number 5, pp. e202300185, 2024. - Surface modification of TiO2 nanotubes via pre-loaded hydroxyapatite towards enhanced bioactivity
In Materials Today Communications, volume 39, pp. 109216, 2024. - Predicting plastron thermodynamic stability for underwater superhydrophobicity
In Communications Materials, volume 5, number 1, pp. 112, 2024. - Aerophilic Surfaces for Sustained Corrosion Protection of Metals Underwater
In Advanced Functional Materials, pp. 2407444, 2024.
2023
- Silicone-Based Lubricant-Infused Slippery Coating Covalently Bound to Aluminum Substrates for Underwater Applications
In ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 2023. - Long-term stability of aerophilic metallic surfaces underwater
In Nat Mater, 2023. - Pt Single Atoms as Co‐Catalysts on CdS‐Sensitized Single‐Crystalline TiO $_{\textrm{2}}$ Nanoflakes for Enhanced Visible Light Photocatalytic H $_{\textrm{2}}$ Generation
In ChemCatChem, volume 15, number 12, pp. e202300327, 2023. - Flexible Soft-Printed Polymer Films with Tunable Plasmonic Properties
In ACS Materials Au, volume 3, number 6, pp. 699–710, 2023.
2022
- Nontoxic Liquid-Infused Slippery Coating Prepared on Steel Substrates Inhibits Corrosion and Biofouling Adhesion
In ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, volume 14, number 25, pp. 11, 2022. - Facet‐Control versus Co‐Catalyst‐Control in Photocatalytic H $_{\textrm{2}}$ Evolution from Anatase TiO $_{\textrm{2}}$ Nanocrystals
In ChemistryOpen, volume 11, number 3, pp. e202200010, 2022. - A facile “dark”-deposition approach for Pt single‐atom trapping on facetted anatase TiO2 nanoflakes and use in photocatalytic H2 generation
In Electrochimica Acta, volume 412, pp. 140129, 2022. - Graphite-decorated TiO $_{\textrm{2}}$ nanotubes for enhanced photocatalytic H $_{\textrm{2}}$ evolution
In 2022 19th International Bhurban Conference on Applied Sciences and Technology (IBCAST), pp. 19–25, 2022. - Dataset for the Synthesis of Boron-Dipyrrin Dyes, their fluorescent properties, their interaction with proteins, Triton-X-based surfactants, and micellar clusterization approaches to validation based on fluorescent dyes
In Data in Brief, volume 43, pp. 108464, 2022. - Spanning BODIPY fluorescence with self-assembled micellar clusters
In Colloids and Surfaces B: Biointerfaces, volume 216, pp. 112532, 2022. - Single-Atom Co-Catalysts Employed in Titanium Dioxide Photocatalysis
In Catalysts, volume 12, number 10, pp. 1223, 2022.
2021
- A drastic improvement in photocatalytic H $_{\textrm{2}}$ production by TiO $_{\textrm{2}}$ nanosheets grown directly on Ta $_{\textrm{2}}$ O $_{\textrm{5}}$ substrates
In Nanoscale, volume 13, number 29, pp. 12750–12756, 2021. - Hydrogenated anatase TiO $_{\textrm{2}}$ single crystals: defects formation and structural changes as microscopic origin of co-catalyst free photocatalytic H $_{\textrm{2}}$ evolution activity
In Journal of Materials Chemistry A, volume 9, number 44, pp. 24932–24942, 2021. - A One‐Pot Universal Approach to Fabricate Lubricant‐Infused Slippery Surfaces on Solid Substrates
In Advanced Functional Materials, volume 31, number 27, pp. 2101090, 2021. - Facile Approach of Direct Sulfidation of FTO to Form Vertically Aligned SnS $_{\textrm{2}}$ Nanoflake Photoanodes for Efficient Photoelectrochemical Water Splitting
In ACS Applied Energy Materials, volume 4, number 8, pp. 8395–8400, 2021. - Anodic TiO2 Nanotubes: Tailoring Osteoinduction via Drug Delivery
In Nanomaterials, volume 11, number 9, pp. 2359, 2021. - Metallic nanoparticle-on-mirror: Multiple-band light harvesting and efficient photocurrent generation under visible light irradiation
In Nano Energy, volume 90, pp. 106609, 2021.
2020
- Metallic Liquid Gating Membranes
In ACS Nano, volume 14, number 2, pp. 2465–2474, 2020. - Morphology and Optical Properties of Highly Ordered TiO $_{\textrm{2}}$ Nanotubes Grown in NH $_{\textrm{4}}$ F/ \textito -H $_{\textrm{3}}$ PO $_{\textrm{4}}$ Electrolytes in View of Light-Harvesting and Catalytic Applications
In ACS Applied Nano Materials, volume 3, number 11, pp. 10646–10658, 2020.
2019
- Self-assembled micellar clusters based on Triton-X-family surfactants for enhanced solubilization, encapsulation, proteins permeability control, and anticancer drug delivery
In Materials Science and Engineering: C, volume 99, pp. 794–804, 2019. - Data on peptidyl platform-based anticancer drug synthesis and triton-x-based micellar clusters (MCs) self-assembly peculiarities for enhanced solubilization, encapsulation of hydrophobic compounds and their interaction with HeLa cells
In Data in Brief, volume 25, pp. 104052, 2019.
2015
- Extremely durable biofouling-resistant metallic surfaces based on electrodeposited nanoporous tungstite films on steel
In Nature Communications, volume 6, number 1, pp. 8649, 2015.
2013
- Mechanism of morphology transformation during annealing of nanostructured gold films on glass
In Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, volume 15, number 13, pp. 4656, 2013. - Direct Observation of Aminoglycoside–RNA Binding by Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Spectroscopy
In Analytical Chemistry, volume 85, number 4, pp. 2200–2207, 2013. - Amplification of Chiroptical Activity of Chiral Biomolecules by Surface Plasmons
In Nano Letters, volume 13, number 3, pp. 1203–1209, 2013. - Solid-State Thermal Dewetting of Just-Percolated Gold Films Evaporated on Glass: Development of the Morphology and Optical Properties
In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, volume 117, number 21, pp. 11337–11346, 2013.
2012
- Optimization of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Transducers for Studying Carbohydrate–Protein Interactions
In Analytical Chemistry, volume 84, number 1, pp. 232–240, 2012.
2011
- A Quantitative, Real‐Time Assessment of Binding of Peptides and Proteins to Gold Surfaces
In Chemistry – A European Journal, volume 17, number 4, pp. 1327–1336, 2011. - Sensitivity and Optimization of Localized Surface Plasmon Resonance Transducers
In ACS Nano, volume 5, number 2, pp. 748–760, 2011. - Tunable Localized Plasmon Transducers Prepared by Thermal Dewetting of Percolated Evaporated Gold Films
In The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, volume 115, number 50, pp. 24642–24652, 2011.
2010
- Analyzing results of impedance spectroscopy using novel evolutionary programming techniques
In Journal of Electroceramics, volume 24, number 4, pp. 245–260, 2010.
2008
- Highly Stable Localized Plasmon Transducers Obtained by Thermal Embedding of Gold Island Films on Glass
In Advanced Materials, volume 20, number 20, pp. 3893–3899, 2008.