Best practices and recommendations for accurate nanomechanical characterization of heterogeneous polymer systems with atomic force microscopy

DW Collinson, RJ Sheridan, MJ Palmeri… - Progress in Polymer …, 2021 - Elsevier
The past two decades have seen atomic force microscopy (AFM) evolve from an
experimental technique to probe simple surface topography to one that can spatially map …

Quantum-size-tuned heterostructures enable efficient and stable inverted perovskite solar cells

H Chen, S Teale, B Chen, Y Hou, L Grater, T Zhu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The energy landscape of reduced-dimensional perovskites (RDPs) can be tailored by
adjusting their layer width (n). Recently, two/three-dimensional (2D/3D) heterostructures …

Accurate thickness measurement of graphene

CJ Shearer, AD Slattery, AJ Stapleton… - …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Graphene has emerged as a material with a vast variety of applications. The electronic,
optical and mechanical properties of graphene are strongly influenced by the number of …

High-speed atomic force microscopy for materials science

OD Payton, L Picco, TB Scott - International Materials Reviews, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Since its inception in 1986, the field of atomic force microscopy (AFM) has enabled surface
analysis and characterisation with unparalleled resolution in a wide variety of environments …

[KSIĄŻKA][B] Scanning probe microscopy: Atomic force microscopy and scanning tunneling microscopy

B Voigtländer - 2015 - Springer
This book explains the operating principles of atomic force microscopy and scanning
tunneling microscopy. The aim of this book is to enable the reader to operate a scanning …

Standardized nanomechanical atomic force microscopy procedure (SNAP) for measuring soft and biological samples

H Schillers, C Rianna, J Schäpe, T Luque… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
We present a procedure that allows a reliable determination of the elastic (Young's) modulus
of soft samples, including living cells, by atomic force microscopy (AFM). The standardized …

Measuring nanoscale viscoelastic parameters of cells directly from AFM force-displacement curves

YM Efremov, WH Wang, SD Hardy, RL Geahlen… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract Force-displacement (FZ) curves are the most commonly used Atomic Force
Microscopy (AFM) mode to measure the local, nanoscale elastic properties of soft materials …

Polyurethane coatings based on chemically unmodified fractionated lignin

G Griffini, V Passoni, R Suriano, M Levi… - ACS Sustainable …, 2015 - ACS Publications
New lignin-based thermoset polyurethane (PU) coatings with high lignin content are
presented in this work. These materials were obtained by extracting a sol fraction from a raw …

3D printed fiber-optic nanomechanical bioprobe

M Zou, C Liao, Y Chen, L Xu, S Tang… - … Journal of Extreme …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Ultrasensitive nanomechanical instruments, eg atomic force microscopy (AFM), can be used
to perform delicate biomechanical measurements and reveal the complex mechanical …

Prolonged culture of aligned skeletal myotubes on micromolded gelatin hydrogels

A Bettadapur, GC Suh, NA Geisse, ER Wang, C Hua… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
In vitro models of skeletal muscle are critically needed to elucidate disease mechanisms,
identify therapeutic targets and test drugs pre-clinically. However, culturing skeletal muscle …