Laboratory for Micro- and Nanotechnology
Paul Scherrer Institut 
CH-5232 Villigen PSI

tel: +41 56 310 21 41
fax:+41 56 310 26 46
e-mail: 
celestino.padeste@psi.ch

Chemist
PhD in inorganic solid state chemistry, University of Zürich, Switzerland
Post-Doc in surface science of catalysts, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

At PSI / LMN since August 1993

1993-2003: Molecular Nanotechnology

• surface design
• surface modification
• protein immobilization
• electrochemical detection of labelled proteins

Since 2003: Nanofabrication Technologies:

• polymer micro- and nanografting
• x-ray interference lithography (XIL)
• creation of protein patterns based on XIL
• chemical nanopatterning for liquid crystal applications

• responsible for the www-pages of LMN

Selected Publications

a) Polymer grafting

Patrick Farquet, Celestino Padeste, Harun H. Solak, Selmiye Alkan Gürsel, Günther G. Scherer and Alexander Wokaun, „EUV lithographic radiation grafting of thermo-responsive hydrogel nanostructures“, Nucl. Inst. Meth. Phys. Res. B, 265 (2007) 187-192.

Celestino Padeste, Patrick Farquet, Christian Potzner and Harun H. Solak, „Nanostructured bio-functional polymer brushes”, J. Biomater. Sci. Polymer Edn. 17 (2006) 1285-1300.

Celestino Padeste, Patrick Farquet and Harun H. Solak „Surface relief polymer structures grafted onto polymer films“, Microelectronic Engineering 83 (2006) 1265-1268.

C. Padeste, H. H. Solak, H.P. Brack, M. Slaski, S. Alkan Gürsel and G.G. Scherer, “Patterned Grafting of Polymer Brushes onto Flexible Polymer Substrates”, J. Vac. Sci. Technol. B, 22, 6 (2004) 3191-3195.

H.-P. Brack, C. Padeste, M. Slaski, S. Alkan, and H. H. Solak, “Preparation of Micro- and Nanopatterns of Polymer Chains Grafted onto Flexible Polymer Substrates”, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 126, 4 (2004) 1004-1005.

b) Biosensors and Bio-Patterning

Frank A. Zoller, Celestino Padeste, Yasin Ekinci, Harun H. Solak and Andreas Engel, Nanostructured substrates for high density protein arrays Microelectronic Engineering, in press

C. Padeste, B. Steiger, A. Grubelnik and L. Tiefenauer, "Redox Labelled Avidin for Enzyme Sensor Architectures", Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 19 (2003) 239/247.

B. Steiger, C. Padeste, A. Grubelnik and L. Tiefenauer, "Charge Transport Effects in Ferrocene-Streptavidin Multilayers Immobilised on Electrode Surfaces", Electrochimica Acta, 48 (2003) 761-769. 

H. Schift, L.J. Heyderman, C. Padeste and J. Gobrecht, "Chemical Nano-Patterning using Hot Embossing Lithography", Microelectronic engineering, 61-62 (2002) 423-428.

H. Sorribas, C. Padeste and L. Tiefenauer, "Photolithographic Generation of Protein Micropatterns for Neuron Culture Applications", Biomaterials 23, 3 (2002) 893-900.

A. Grubelnik, C. Padeste and L. Tiefenauer, "Highly Sensitive Immunoassays for the Detection of b-Lactam Antibiotics", Food and Agricultural Immunology 13 (2001) 161-169.

C. Padeste, A. Grubelnik and L. Tiefenauer, "Ferrocene-Avidin Conjugates for Bioelectrochemical Applications", Biosensors and Bioelectronics, 15 (2000) 431-438.

H. Sorribas, C. Padeste, T. Mezzacasa, L. Tiefenauer, L. Leder, D. Fitzli and P. Sonderegger, "Neurite outgrowth on microstructured surfaces functionalized by a neural adhesion protein", J. Mat. Sci, Mat. in Medicine, 10 (1999) 787-791.

R. Ros, F. Schwesinger, C. Padeste, A. Plückthun, D. Anselmetti, H.-J. Güntherodt and L. Tiefenauer; "SPM for Functional Identification of Individual Biomolecules" Proc. SPIE 3607 (1999) 84-89.

C. Padeste, A. Grubelnik and L. Tiefenauer, "Amperometric Immunosensing using Microperoxidase MP-11 Antibody Conjugates", Anal. Chim. Acta., 374 (1998) 167-176.

C. Padeste, S. Kossek, H.W. Lehmann, C.R. Musil, J. Gobrecht and L. Tiefenauer, "Fabrication and Characterization of Nanostructured Gold Electrodes for Electrochemical Biosensors" J. Electrochemical Soc., 143, 12 (1996) 3890-3895.

c) Catalysis and solid-state chemistry

C. Padeste, N.W. Cant and D. L. Trimm, „The Influence of Water on the Reduction and Reoxidation of Ceria“, Catal. Lett. 18 (1993) 305-316.

C. Padeste, N.W. Cant and D.L. Trimm, "Reactions of Ceria Supported Rhodium with Hydrogen and Nitric Oxide Studied with TPR/TPO and XPS techniques", Catal. Lett. 28 (1994) 301-311.

C. Padeste, A. Reller and H.R. Oswald, "The Influence of Transition Metals on the Thermal Decomposition of Calcium Carbonate in Hydrogen", Mat. Res. Bull. 25 (1990) 1299-1305.

A. Reller, C. Padeste and P. Hug, "Formation of Organic Compounds from Metal Carbonates", Nature, 239 (1987) 527.