Job Boekhoven

Fellowship
Rudolf Mößbauer Tenure Track

Appointment
2016

Institution
Technical University of Munich

Department
Chemistry

Focus Group
Supramolecular Chemistry

Scientific Report on TUM-IAS Fellowship

The Supramolecular Chemistry Focus Group develops molecular self-assembly regulated through chemical reaction cycles. We use this method of creating molecular assemblies to synthesize materials with life-like properties; this approach might ultimately be used to synthesize life. full report …

Short CV

Boekhoven holds an undergraduate degree in chemistry from the University of Groningen, where he majored in organic chemistry, and a PhD degree (2012) in chemistry from Delft University of Technology, both in the Netherlands. Before his appointment at TUM, he was a Rubicon postdoctoral fellow at Northwestern University in Chicago. In January 2016, Boekhoven was appointed as Rudolf Mößbauer Professor at TUM, heading a research group in supramolecular chemistry. 


Selected Awards

  • 2021, Speaker of the TUM Innovation Networks: RISE
  • 2020, Volkswagenstiftung “Life?” fellowship
  • 2019, ERC starting grant
  • 2019, Member of the Origins cluster of Excellence
  • 2018, Max Planck Fellow in the school "Matter to Life”

Research Interests

It amazes me how biology creates structures like the cell using the molecular toolboxes that we also have at our dispense. Inspired by biology’s complexity and beauty, the aim of my work is to create artificial cells and set steps towards the first synthetic life. To do so, we create molecular assemblies driven by simple chemical reaction cycles, just like biology does. The motivation is to better understand biology, create materials with life-like properties, and get a better understanding of the events that led to the origin of life. 


Selected Publications

  • C. Donau, F. Späth, M. Sosson, B.. Kriebisch, F. Schnitter, M. Tena-Solsona,  H.-S. Kang, E. Salibi,  M. Sattler, H. Mutschler, J. Boekhoven, Nature Commun. 2020, 11 (1), 5167.
    We found the first example of coacervate-based droplets based on polymers that are “active”, i.e., they are regulated through energy-consuming chemical reactions.
  • M. Tena-Solsona, B. Rieß, C. Wanzke, A. Bausch, J. Boekhoven, Nature Commun. 2018, 9, 2044.
    My team found the first synthetic active droplets based on prebiotic relevant chemistry.
  • M. Tena-Solsona,* B. Rieß,* R. Grötsch, F. Löhrer, C. Wanzke, B. Käsdorf, A. Bausch, P. Mueller-Buschbaum, O. Lieleg, J. Boekhoven Nature Commun. 2017, 8, 15895.
    We describe a simple, yet versatile chemical reaction cycle based on dicarboxylate-anhydride chemistry that induces dissipative self-assembly.

Publications as TUM-IAS-Fellow

2022

  • Kretschmer, Martin; Hayta, Elif N.; Ertelt, Marvin J.; Würbser, Michaela A.; Boekhoven, Job; Lieleg, Oliver: A rotating bioreactor for the production of biofilms at the solid–air interface. Biotechnology and Bioengineering 119 (3), 2022, 895-906 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Schwarz, Patrick S.; Tena-Solsona, Marta; Dai, Kun; Boekhoven, Job: Carbodiimide-fueled catalytic reaction cycles to regulate supramolecular processes. Chemical Communications 58 (9), 2022, 1284-1297 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Xue, Yu; Fehn, Natalie; Brandt, Viktoria Katharina; Stasi, Michele; Boekhoven, Job; Heiz, Ueli; Kartouzian, Aras: Tunable induced circular dichroism in gels. Chirality 34 (3), 2022, 550-558 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2021

  • Dai, Kun; Tena-Solsona, Marta; Rodon Fores, Jennifer; Bergmann, Alexander M.; Boekhoven, Job: Morphological transitions in chemically fueled self-assembly. Nanoscale 13 (47), 2021, 19864-19869 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Kriebisch, Christine M. E.; Bergmann, Alexander M.; Boekhoven, Job: Fuel-Driven Dynamic Combinatorial Libraries. Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (20), 2021, 7719-7725 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Schnitter, Fabian; Bergmann, Alexander M.; Winkeljann, Benjamin; Rodon Fores, Jennifer; Lieleg, Oliver; Boekhoven, Job: Synthesis and characterization of chemically fueled supramolecular materials driven by carbodiimide-based fuels. Nature Protocols 16 (8), 2021, 3901-3932 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Schwarz, Patrick S.; Laha, Sudarshana; Janssen, Jacqueline; Huss, Tabea; Boekhoven, Job; Weber, Christoph A.: Parasitic behavior in competing chemically fueled reaction cycles. Chemical Science, 2021 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Schwarz, Patrick S.; Tebcharani, Laura; Heger, Julian E.; Müller-Buschbaum, Peter; Boekhoven, Job: Chemically fueled materials with a self-immolative mechanism: transient materials with a fast on/off response. Chemical Science 12 (29), 2021, 9969-9976 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Späth, Fabian; Donau, Carsten; Bergmann, Alexander M.; Kränzlein, Moritz; Synatschke, Christopher V.; Rieger, Bernhard; Boekhoven, Job: Molecular Design of Chemically Fueled Peptide–Polyelectrolyte Coacervate-Based Assemblies. Journal of the American Chemical Society 143 (12), 2021, 4782-4789 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Würbser, Michaela A.; Schwarz, Patrick S.; Heckel, Jonas; Bergmann, Alexander M.; Walther, Andreas; Boekhoven, Job: Chemically Fueled Block Copolymer Self‐Assembly into Transient Nanoreactors**. ChemSystemsChem, 2021 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2020

  • Dai, Kun; Fores, Jennifer Rodon; Wanzke, Caren; Winkeljann, Benjamin; Bergmann, Alexander M.; Lieleg, Oliver; Boekhoven, Job: Regulating Chemically Fueled Peptide Assemblies by Molecular Design. Journal of the American Chemical Society 142 (33), 2020, 14142-14149 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Donau, Carsten; Späth, Fabian; Sosson, Marilyne; Kriebisch, Brigitte A. K.; Schnitter, Fabian; Tena-Solsona, Marta; Kang, Hyun-Seo; Salibi, Elia; Sattler, Michael; Mutschler, Hannes; Boekhoven, Job: Active coacervate droplets as a model for membraneless organelles and protocells. Nature Communications 11 (1), 2020 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Kriebisch, Brigitte A. K.; Jussupow, Alexander; Bergmann, Alexander M.; Kohler, Fabian; Dietz, Hendrik; Kaila, Ville R. I.; Boekhoven, Job: Reciprocal Coupling in Chemically Fueled Assembly: A Reaction Cycle Regulates Self-Assembly and Vice Versa. Journal of the American Chemical Society 142 (49), 2020, 20837-20844 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Schnitter, Fabian; Boekhoven, Job: A Method to Quench Carbodiimide‐Fueled Self‐Assembly. ChemSystemsChem 3 (1), 2020 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Tena‐Solsona, Marta; Janssen, Jacqueline; Wanzke, Caren; Schnitter, Fabian; Park, Hansol; Rieß, Benedikt; Gibbs, Julianne M.; Weber, Christoph A.; Boekhoven, Job: Accelerated Ripening in Chemically Fueled Emulsions**. ChemSystemsChem 3 (2), 2020 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Wanzke, Caren; Tena-Solsona, Marta; Rieß, Benedikt; Tebcharani, Laura; Boekhoven, Job: Active droplets in a hydrogel release drugs with a constant and tunable rate. Materials Horizons 7 (5), 2020, 1397-1403 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2019

  • Boekhoven, Job: Systems Chemistry: Out of Equilibrium. ChemSystemsChem 1 (1-2), 2019, 6-6 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Edeleva, Evgeniia; Salditt, Annalena; Stamp, Julian; Schwintek, Philipp; Boekhoven, Job; Braun, Dieter: Continuous nonenzymatic cross-replication of DNA strands with in situ activated DNA oligonucleotides. Chemical Science 10 (22), 2019, 5807-5814 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Grötsch, Raphael K.; Wanzke, Caren; Speckbacher, Maximilian; Angı, Arzu; Rieger, Bernhard; Boekhoven, Job: Pathway Dependence in the Fuel-Driven Dissipative Self-Assembly of Nanoparticles. Journal of the American Chemical Society 141 (25), 2019, 9872-9878 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Rieß, Benedikt; Grötsch, Raphael Kurt; Boekhoven, Job: The Design of Dissipative Molecular Assemblies Driven by Chemical Reaction Cycles. Chem, 2019 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Tena-Solsona, Marta; Janssen, Jacqueline; Wanzke, Caren; Schnitter, Fabian; Park, Hansol; Rieß, Benedikt; Gibbs, Julianne M.; Weber, Christoph A.; Boekhoven, Job: Kinetic Control over Droplet Ripening in Fuel-Driven Active Emulsions. , 2019 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Tena‐Solsona, Marta; Boekhoven, Job: Dissipative Self‐Assembly of Peptides. Israel Journal of Chemistry 59 (10), 2019, 898-905 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Wanzke, Caren; Jussupow, Alexander; Kohler, Fabian; Dietz, Hendrik; Kaila, Ville R. I.; Boekhoven, Job: Dynamic Vesicles Formed By Dissipative Self‐Assembly. ChemSystemsChem 2 (1), 2019 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2018

  • Boekhoven, Job: Complexity from small molecules. Nature Nanotechnology 13 (11), 2018, 979-980 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Boekhoven, Job; Didier, Dorian: Merging Art and Science-The 53rd Bürgenstock Conference. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57 (32), 2018, 10011-10014 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Grötsch, Raphael K.; Angı, Arzu; Mideksa, Yonatan G.; Wanzke, Caren; Tena-Solsona, Marta; Feige, Matthias J.; Rieger, Bernhard; Boekhoven, Job: Dissipative Self-Assembly of Photoluminescent Silicon Nanocrystals. Angewandte Chemie International Edition 57 (44), 2018, 14608-14612 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Grötsch, Raphael K.; Boekhoven, Job: Unique properties of supramolecular biomaterials through nonequilibrium self-assembly. In: Self-assembling Biomaterials. Elsevier, 2018 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Rieß, Benedikt; Boekhoven, Job: Applications of Dissipative Supramolecular Materials with a Tunable Lifetime. ChemNanoMat 4 (8), 2018, 710-719 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Rieß, Benedikt; Wanzke, Caren; Tena-Solsona, Marta; Grötsch, Raphael K.; Maity, Chandan; Boekhoven, Job: Dissipative assemblies that inhibit their deactivation. Soft Matter 14 (23), 2018, 4852-4859 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Robidillo, Christopher Jay T.; Islam, Muhammad Amirul; Aghajamali, Maryam; Faramus, Angelique; Sinelnikov, Regina; Zhang, Xiyu; Boekhoven, Job; Veinot, Jonathan G. C.: Functional Bioinorganic Hybrids from Enzymes and Luminescent Silicon-Based Nanoparticles. Langmuir 34 (22), 2018, 6556-6569 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Tena-Solsona, Marta; Wanzke, Caren; Riess, Benedikt; Bausch, Andreas R.; Boekhoven, Job: Self-selection of dissipative assemblies driven by primitive chemical reaction networks. Nature Communications 9 (1), 2018 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2017

  • Freeman, Ronit; Stephanopoulos, Nicholas; Álvarez, Zaida; Lewis, Jacob A; Sur, Shantanu; Serrano, Chris M; Boekhoven, Job; Lee, Sungsoo S.; Stupp, Samuel I.: Instructing cells with programmable peptide DNA hybrids. Nature Communications 8, 2017, 15982 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Kazantsev, Roman V.; Dannenhoffer, Adam J.; Weingarten, Adam S.; Phelan, Brian T.; Harutyunyan, Boris; Aytun, Taner; Narayanan, Ashwin; Fairfield, Daniel J.; Boekhoven, Job; Sai, Hiroaki; Senesi, Andrew; O’Dogherty, Pascual I.; Palmer, Liam C.; Bedzyk, Michael J.; Wasielewski, Michael R.; Stupp, Samuel I.: Crystal-Phase Transitions and Photocatalysis in Supramolecular Scaffolds. Journal of the American Chemical Society 139 (17), 2017, 6120-6127 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Tena-Solsona, Marta; Rieß, Benedikt; Grötsch, Raphael K.; Löhrer, Franziska C.; Wanzke, Caren; Käsdorf, Benjamin; Bausch, Andreas R.; Müller-Buschbaum, Peter; Lieleg, Oliver; Boekhoven, Job: Non-equilibrium dissipative supramolecular materials with a tunable lifetime. Nature Communications 8, 2017, 15895 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • Winkeljann, Benjamin; Käsdorf, Benjamin T.; Boekhoven, Job; Lieleg, Oliver: Macromolecular Coating Enables Tunable Selectivity in a Porous PDMS Matrix. Macromolecular Bioscience 18 (2), 2017, 1700311 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )
  • van Rossum, Susan A. P.; Tena-Solsona, Marta; van Esch, Jan H.; Eelkema, Rienk; Boekhoven, Job: Dissipative out-of-equilibrium assembly of man-made supramolecular materials. Chemical Society Reviews 46 (18), 2017, 5519-5535 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )

2016

  • Tantakitti, Faifan; Boekhoven, Job; Wang, Xin; Kazantsev, Roman V.; Yu, Tao; Li, Jiahe; Zhuang, Ellen; Zandi, Roya; Ortony, Julia H.; Newcomb, Christina J.; Palmer, Liam C.; Shekhawat, Gajendra S.; de la Cruz, Monica Olvera; Schatz, George C.; Stupp, Samuel I.: Energy landscapes and functions of supramolecular systems. Nature Materials 15, 2016, 469-476 mehr… BibTeX Volltext ( DOI )