Recent advances in the application of atomic force microscopy to structural biology

AC Dumitru, M Koehler - Journal of Structural Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
The application of atomic force microscopy (AFM) for functional imaging and manipulating
biomolecules at all levels of organization has enabled great progress in the structural …

Characterizing viscoelastic properties of human melanoma tissue using Prony series

S Park, AL Chien, ID Brown, J Chen - Frontiers in Bioengineering and …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Melanoma is the most invasive and deadly skin cancer, which causes most of the deaths
from skin cancer. It has been demonstrated that the mechanical properties of tumor tissue …

Insights and guidelines to interpret forces and deformations at the nanoscale by using a tap** mode AFM simulator: dForce 2.0

VG Gisbert, R Garcia - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Amplitude modulation (tap** mode) AFM is the most versatile AFM mode for imaging
surfaces at the nanoscale in air and liquid environments. However, it remains challenging to …

Analysis of the Electroconsolidation Process of Fine-Dispersed Structures Out of Hot Pressed Al2O3–WC Nanopowders

E Gevorkyan, M Rucki, Z Krzysiak, V Chishkala… - Materials, 2021 - mdpi.com
Fabrication of alumina–tungsten carbide nanocomposite was investigated. Characteristics of
the densification and sintering were analyzed considering both the nano-size particle …

Nanorheology and nanoindentation revealed a softening and an increased viscous fluidity of adherent mammalian cells upon increasing the frequency

VG Gisbert, FM Espinosa, JG Sanchez, MC Serrano… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The nanomechanical response of a cell depends on the frequency at which the cell is
probed. The components of the cell that contribute to this property and their interplay are not …

[HTML][HTML] Direct measurement of storage and loss behavior in AFM force–distance experiments using the modified Fourier transformation

B Uluutku, MR McCraw, SD Solares - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
Force–distance curve experiments are commonly performed in atomic force microscopy
(AFM) to obtain the viscoelastic characteristics of materials, such as the storage and loss …

Biomechanical modelling of porcine kidney

A Mishra, RO Cleveland - Bioengineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
In this study, the viscoelastic properties of porcine kidney in the upper, middle and lower
poles were investigated using oscillatory shear tests. The viscoelastic properties were …

Optimizing the accuracy of viscoelastic characterization with AFM force–distance experiments in the time and frequency domains

MR McCraw, B Uluutku, HD Solomon, MS Anderson… - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) force-distance (FD) experiments have emerged as an
attractive alternative to traditional micro-rheology measurement techniques owing to their …

[PDF][PDF] Ultrastructural characterization of hepatocellular carcinoma cells using atomic force microscopy in liquid and air conditions

A Mohammadi, P Gill… - … Res Appl Chem, 2023 - biointerfaceresearch.com
Atomic force microscope is a powerful imaging instrument for the microscopic study of
biological samples from an individual molecule to a living cell. Visualization of topology and …

Insights about aliasing and spectral leakage when analyzing discrete-time finite viscoelastic functions

EL Guerra, B Uluutku, S Solares - Reports in Mechanical …, 2023 - rme-journal.org
Material property viscoelastic inversion studies often rely on the continuous-time framework
for Fourier analysis, which may not accurately represent real experimentally collected data …