Nanomechanical mapping 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 …

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 …

Advanced atomic force microscopy modes for biomedical research

F Xia, K Youcef-Toumi - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Visualization of biomedical samples in their native environments at the microscopic scale is
crucial for studying fundamental principles and discovering biomedical systems with …

[HTML][HTML] Applications and techniques for fast machine learning in science

AMC Deiana, N Tran, J Agar, M Blott… - Frontiers in big …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
In this community review report, we discuss applications and techniques for fast machine
learning (ML) in science—the concept of integrating powerful ML methods into the real-time …

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 …

Atomic force microscopy on biological materials related to pathological conditions

A Stylianou, SV Kontomaris, C Grant… - Scanning, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is an easy‐to‐use, powerful, high‐resolution microscope that
allows the user to image any surface and under any aqueous condition. AFM has been used …

[HTML][HTML] Solvents drive self-assembly mechanisms and inherent properties of Kraft lignin nanoparticles (< 50 nm)

A Manisekaran, P Grysan, B Duez, DF Schmidt… - Journal of Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Hypothesis Strikingly, Kraft lignin nanoparticles (KLNPs) can substitute polluting
nanoparticles in a diverse field of applications. An attractive method for synthesizing KLNPs …

Mapping mechanical properties of biological materials via an add-on Brillouin module to confocal microscopes

J Zhang, G Scarcelli - Nature protocols, 2021 - nature.com
Several techniques have been developed over the past few decades to assess the
mechanical properties of biological samples, which has fueled a rapid growth in the fields of …

Fast, quantitative and high resolution mapping of viscoelastic properties with bimodal AFM

S Benaglia, CA Amo, R Garcia - Nanoscale, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Quantitative mapping of viscoelastic properties of soft matter with a nanoscale spatial
resolution is an active and relevant research topic in atomic force microscopy (AFM) and …

Capturing transient antibody conformations with DNA origami epitopes

P Zhang, X Liu, P Liu, F Wang, H Ariyama… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Revealing antibody-antigen interactions at the single-molecule level will deepen our
understanding of immunology. However, structural determination under crystal or cryogenic …