Nanomechanical map** of soft materials with the atomic force microscope: methods, theory and applications

R Garcia - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Fast, high-resolution, non-destructive and quantitative characterization methods are needed
to develop materials with tailored properties at the nanoscale or to understand the …

Imaging modes of atomic force microscopy for application in molecular and cell biology

YF Dufrêne, T Ando, R Garcia, D Alsteens… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a powerful, multifunctional imaging platform that allows
biological samples, from single molecules to living cells, to be visualized and manipulated …

Measuring viscoelasticity of soft biological samples using atomic force microscopy

YM Efremov, T Okajima, A Raman - Soft matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Mechanical properties play important roles at different scales in biology. At the level of a
single cell, the mechanical properties mediate mechanosensing and mechanotransduction …

Strain-tuning of the electronic, optical, and vibrational properties of two-dimensional crystals

E Blundo, E Cappelluti, M Felici, G Pettinari… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The variegated family of two-dimensional (2D) crystals has developed rapidly since the
isolation of its forerunner: Graphene. Their planeconfined nature is typically associated with …

Linear and nonlinear dynamics of micro and nano-resonators: Review of recent advances

AZ Hajjaj, N Jaber, S Ilyas, FK Alfosail… - International Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Micro and nanoelectromechanical systems M/NEMS have been extensively investigated
and exploited in the past few decades for various applications and for probing fundamental …

Atomic-and molecular-resolution map** of solid–liquid interfaces by 3D atomic force microscopy

T Fukuma, R Garcia - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
Hydration layers are ubiquitous in life and technology. Hence, interfacial aqueous layers
have a central role in a wide range of phenomena from materials science to molecular and …

AFM assessing of nanomechanical fingerprints for cancer early diagnosis and classification: from single cell to tissue level

A Stylianou, M Lekka, T Stylianopoulos - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Cancer development and progression are closely associated with changes both in the
mechano-cellular phenotype of cancer and stromal cells and in the extracellular matrix …

Advances in atomic force microscopy for probing polymer structure and properties

D Wang, TP Russell - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
Over the past 30 years, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has played an important role in
elucidating the structure and properties of polymer surfaces. AFM-based techniques have …

Electrochemical strain microscopy probes morphology-induced variations in ion uptake and performance in organic electrochemical transistors

R Giridharagopal, LQ Flagg, JS Harrison, ME Ziffer… - Nature materials, 2017 - nature.com
Ionic transport phenomena in organic semiconductor materials underpin emerging
technologies ranging from bioelectronics to energy storage. The performance of these …

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 …