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

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM), a key invention in nanoscience, has by now been
extended to a wide spectrum of basic and applied fields. Its application to basic science led …

Biosensors and nanoscale analytical tools have shown huge growth in literature in the past
20 years, with a large number of reports on the topic of 'ultrasensitive','cost-effective', and …

Mechanobiology emerges at the crossroads of medicine, biology, biophysics and
engineering and describes how the responses of proteins, cells, tissues and organs to …

The transition between soluble intrinsically disordered tau protein and aggregated tau in
neurofibrillary tangles in Alzheimer's disease is unknown. Here, we propose that soluble tau …

Physical forces and mechanical properties have critical roles in cellular function, physiology
and disease. Over the past decade, atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques have …

The formation of multicellular microbial communities, called biofilms, starts from the
adhesion of a few planktonic cells to the surface. The transition from a free-living planktonic …

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 …

During the last three decades, a series of key technological improvements turned atomic
force microscopy (AFM) into a nanoscopic laboratory to directly observe and chemically …

Pyroptosis is a lytic type of cell death that is initiated by inflammatory caspases. These
caspases are activated within multi‐protein inflammasome complexes that assemble in …