Mechanical interactions are fundamental to biology. Mechanical forces of chemical origin
determine motility and adhesion on the cellular scale, and govern transport and affinity on …

Mechanical systems are ideal candidates for studying quantum behavior of macroscopic
objects. To this end, a mechanical resonator has to be cooled to its ground state and its …

The advances in micro-and nanofabrication technologies enable the preparation of
increasingly smaller mechanical transducers capable of detecting the forces, motion …

Recent advances in nanotechnology have led to the development of nano-electro-
mechanical systems (NEMS) such as nanomechanical resonators, which have recently …

In this work, the influence of surface effects, including residual surface stress, surface
elasticity and surface piezoelectricity, on the vibrational and buckling behaviors of …

Bending analysis of micro-sized beams based on the Bernoulli-Euler beam theory is
presented within the modified strain gradient elasticity and modified couple stress theories …

It is showed that all equations of the linearized Gurtin-Murdoch model of surface elasticity
can be derived, in a straightforward way, from a simple second-order expression for the ratio …

The fast and progressive growth of the biotechnology and pharmaceutical fields forces the
development of new and powerful sensing techniques for process optimization and …

The influence of surface stress on the resonance frequencies of bending nanowires was
studied by incorporating the generalized Young–Laplace equation into Euler–Bernoulli …

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 …