Fast, high-resolution, non-destructive and quantitative characterization methods are needed
to develop materials with tailored properties at the nanoscale or to understand the …

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 …

Quantitative map** of viscoelastic properties of soft matter with a nanoscale spatial
resolution is an active and relevant research topic in atomic force microscopy (AFM) and …

The increasing number of reports on photomechanical effects in molecular crystals
necessitates systematic studies to understand the intrinsic and external effectors that …

Active research in nanotechnology contemplates the use of nanomaterials for environmental
engineering applications. However, a primary challenge is understanding the effects of …

The equilibrium state of graphene surfaces exposed to ambient conditions is of significant
importance for applications from electronics to anti-corrosion layers and from a fundamental …

We report the temporal evolution of the wettability of highly ordered pyrolytic graphite
(HOPG) exposed to environmental conditions. Macroscopic wettability is investigated by …

Vertical stacking of monolayers via van der Waals (vdW) assembly is an emerging field that
opens promising routes toward engineering physical properties of two-dimensional …

In this work, the influence of the rigid substrate on the determination of the sample Young's
modulus, the so‐called bottom‐effect artifact, is demonstrated by an atomic force microscopy …

Van der Waals interaction in multilayer structures was predicted to be of many-body
character, almost in parallel with the establishment of Lifshitz theory. However, the …