The city of Limoges, located in the heart of west central France, is known for its high quality porcelain factories which employed up to 10,000 workers at the height of their golden age during the ...

The search for a technique that can measure local viscoelastic properties with nanoscale or molecular resolution on soft heterogeneous materials such as polymers has been challenging. Now, scientists ...

AFM-based nanoelectrical modes are used in many different domains ranging from piezoelectric materials and semiconductors through to biology and energy research. There are modes available to define ...

This is an atomic force microscopy (AFM) map of the adhesion features of the cell surface for a normal cell (left) versus a cancer cell (right) isolated from the urine of patients. Disclaimer: AAAS ...

Owing to the limitation of AFM imaging on living mammalian cells, AFM force mode has become an essential and more popular mode than imaging in living cell studies. With AFM force mode, quantitative ...

Although the tool was initially developed to image non-conducting samples, its application was later realized in surface characterization at the nano and micro scale. AFM analyzes both the physical ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight – Application Note) In the realm of nanomechanical measurements, AFM is especially suited to working with soft materials due to its piconewton force resolution and sub-nanometer ...

MEDFORD/SOMERVILLE, Mass. (December 3, 2018) --A research team led by Tufts University engineers has developed a non-invasive method for detecting bladder cancer that might make screening easier and ...