Mesoscopic physics of nanomechanical systems

A Bachtold, J Moser, MI Dykman - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2022 - APS
Nanomechanics has brought mesoscopic physics into the world of vibrations. Because
nanomechanical systems are small, fluctuations are significant, the vibrations already …

The emerging landscape of single-molecule protein sequencing technologies

JA Alfaro, P Bohländer, M Dai, M Filius, CJ Howard… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Single-cell profiling methods have had a profound impact on the understanding of cellular
heterogeneity. While genomes and transcriptomes can be explored at the single-cell level …

Optomechanical detection of vibration modes of a single bacterium

E Gil-Santos, JJ Ruz, O Malvar, I Favero… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Low-frequency vibration modes of biological particles, such as proteins, viruses and
bacteria, involve coherent collective vibrations at frequencies in the terahertz and gigahertz …

Analytical and meshless DQM approaches to free vibration analysis of symmetric FGM porous nanobeams with piezoelectric effect

P Jankowski, KK Żur, A Farajpour - Engineering Analysis with Boundary …, 2022 - Elsevier
The current study is an first attempt to develop a vibrational-based piezoelectrically actuated
smart nanoactuator model based on assumptions of Reddy third-order shear deformation …

Nanotechnology for targeted detection and removal of bacteria: opportunities and challenges

MJ Hajipour, AA Saei, ED Walker, B Conley… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of nanotechnology has created unprecedented hopes for addressing
several unmet industrial and clinical issues, including the growing threat so‐termed …

Neutral mass spectrometry of virus capsids above 100 megadaltons with nanomechanical resonators

S Dominguez-Medina, S Fostner, M Defoort, M Sansa… - Science, 2018 - science.org
Measurement of the mass of particles in the mega-to gigadalton range is challenging with
conventional mass spectrometry. Although this mass range appears optimal for …

Optomechanical mass spectrometry

M Sansa, M Defoort, A Brenac, M Hermouet… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Nanomechanical mass spectrometry has proven to be well suited for the analysis of high
mass species such as viruses. Still, the use of one-dimensional devices such as vibrating …

Single-particle mass spectrometry with arrays of frequency-addressed nanomechanical resonators

E Sage, M Sansa, S Fostner, M Defoort, M Gély… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
One of the main challenges to overcome to perform nanomechanical mass spectrometry
analysis in a practical time frame stems from the size mismatch between the analyte beam …

Microcantilever: Dynamical response for mass sensing and fluid characterization

J Mouro, R Pinto, P Paoletti, B Tiribilli - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
A microcantilever is a suspended micro-scale beam structure supported at one end which
can bend and/or vibrate when subjected to a load. Microcantilevers are one of the most …

Recent advances in nanomechanical membrane-type surface stress sensors towards artificial olfaction

K Minami, G Imamura, R Tamura, K Shiba… - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Nanomechanical sensors have gained significant attention as powerful tools for detecting,
distinguishing, and identifying target analytes, especially odors that are composed of a …