This article focuses on the atomic force microscopy-infrared (AFM-IR) technique and its
recent technological developments. Based on the detection of the photothermal sample …

The advent of nanotechnology, and the need to understand the chemical composition at the
nanoscale, has stimulated the convergence of IR and Raman spectroscopy with scanning …

We review the recent biomedical detection developments of scanning near-field optical
microscopy (SNOM), focusing on scattering-type SNOM, atomic force microscope-based …

Amyloid formation is a hallmark of many medical diseases including diabetes type 2,
Alzheimer's and Parkinson diseases. Under these pathological conditions, misfolded …

Lipid bilayers play an important role in the pathological assembly of amyloidogenic proteins
and peptides. This assembly yields oligomers and fibrils, which are highly toxic protein …

Viruses are infections species that infect a large spectrum of living systems. Although
displaying a wide variety of shapes and sizes, they are all composed of nucleic acid …

Biomass is created by living things like plants, animals, and microbes. It has the
characteristics of abundant reserves, renewable, biodegradable and environmentally …

Phosphatidylserine (PS) in the plasma membrane plays an important role in cell signaling
and apoptosis. Cell degeneration is also linked to numerous amyloid diseases, pathologies …

Abrupt aggregation of misfolded proteins is a hallmark of a large number of severe
pathologies, including diabetes types 1 and 2, Alzheimer, and Parkinson diseases. A …

Phosphatidic acid (PA) is a unique plasma membrane lipid that contains fatty acids (FAs)
with different lengths and degrees of unsaturation. Under physiological conditions, PA acts …