This chapter highlights a variety of techniques that are commonly used to measure contact
angles, including the conventional telescope-goniometer method, the Wilhelmy balance …

The fabrication of pure copper microstructures with submicron resolution has found a host of
applications, such as 5G communications and highly sensitive detection. The tiny and …

Advances in micro and nano fabrication technologies have enabled fabrication of smaller
and more sensitive devices for applications not only in solid-state physics but also in …

Micropatterning of living single cells and cell clusters over millimeter–centimeter scale areas
is of high demand in the development of cell-based biosensors. Micropatterning …

The development of high-resolution molecular printing allows the engineering of analytical
platforms enabling applications at the interface between chemistry and biology, ie in …

The atomic force microscope (AFM) is a powerful instrument for nanolithography, which is
well characterized in air where the deposition process is steered by capillary action. In …

By locally dispensing poly-l-lysine (PLL) molecules with a FluidFM onto a protein and cell
resistant poly-l-lysine-graft-polyethylene glycol (PLL-g-PEG) coated substrate, the …

As the requirements of micro-/nano printing technologies are continuously increasing, direct
writing technologies on a submicron scale are drawing attention. One of the promising …

Single-cell analysis has attracted increasing attention because of cell heterogeneities.
Various strategies have been developed for analyzing single cells, but most of these …

Glass micropipettes were invented by Marshall Barber at the beginning of the twentieth
century in his effort to fabricate a tool helping him with his experiments regarding bacterial …