The field of cantilever-based sensing emerged in the mid-1990s and is today a well-known
technology for label-free sensing which holds promise as a technique for cheap, portable …

Since the late 1980s there have been spectacular developments in micromechanical or
microelectro-mechanical (MEMS) systems which have enabled the exploration of …

This important book focuses on the synthesis and fabrication of nanostructures and
nanomaterials, but also includes properties and applications of nanostructures and …

This comprehensive handbook has become the definitive reference work in the field of
nanoscience and nanotechnology, and this 4th edition incorporates a number of recent new …

Some species—ring-tailed lemurs and snow leopards, for example—apparently thrive in
captivity, whereas others, such as Asian elephants and polar bears, are prone to problems …

The merging of silicon microfabrication techniques with surface functionalization
biochemistry offers new exciting opportunities in developing microscopic biomedical …

We report on the fabrication of nanometer-scale mass sensors with subattogram sensitivity.
Surface micromachined polycrystalline silicon and silicon nitride nanomechanical oscillators …

We present a chemical sensor based on a microfabricated array of eight silicon cantilevers
actuated at their resonance-frequency and functionalized by polymer coatings. The …

Micromechanical devices comprise emerging sensor platforms with straightforward sensing
mechanisms. Molecular adsorption onto the sensing element, typically a cantilever, shifts its …

Sensors based on self‐assembled monolayers (SAMs) are the topic of this article. First an
overview of the analytical techniques used for the characterization of monolayers is given …