Micromechanical cantilever sensors are attracting a lot of attention because of the need for
characterizing, detecting, and monitoring chemical and physical properties, as well as …

The mechanical strength of a polycrystalline material can be drastically weakened by a
phenomenon known as grain boundary (GB) premelting that takes place, owing to the so …

For simultaneous and quantitative thermophysical measurements of ultrasmall liquid
volumes, we have recently developed and reported heated fluidic resonators (HFRs). In this …

Although electrode degradation and failure in secondary batteries are hypothesized to stem
from the localized chemo-electro-mechanical stress buildup during the charge-discharge …

Suspended microchannel resonators (SMRs) have been developed to measure the buoyant
mass of single micro-/nanoparticles and cells suspended in a liquid. They have significantly …

Understanding the thermal properties of fluids at the nanoscale with high spatial, temporal,
and thermal resolution are on great demand in the fields of MEMS, drug development …

Grain boundaries (GBs) whose energy is larger than twice the energy of the solid-liquid
interface exhibit the premelting phenomenon, for which an atomically thin liquid layer …

Below their bulk melting temperature, polycrystalline materials may exhibit the premelting
phenomenon, with the grain boundaries (GB) turning into liquidlike nanofilms. This structural …

Specific heat at constant pressure is traditionally a difficult thermodynamic quantity to obtain
from first-principles calculations. While theoretical avenues to C p (T) do exist—most notably …

The bending resonance of micro-sized resonators has been utilized to study adsorption of
analyte molecules in complex fluids of picogram quantity. Traditionally, the analysis to …