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

Polymer networks are complex systems consisting of molecular components. Whereas the
properties of the individual components are typically well understood by most chemists …

Growing interest in exploring mechanically mediated biological phenomena has resulted in
cell culture substrates and 3D matrices with variable stiffnesses becoming standard tools in …

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 …

Tissue mechanobiology is an emerging field with the overarching goal of understanding the
interplay between biophysical and biochemical responses affecting development …

Nanomechanics of cytoskeleton is deeply involved in physiology and regulation of cell
behavior. Atomic Force Microscopy has been extensively used for quantitative …

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has found a wide range of bio-applications in the past few
decades due to its ability to measure biological samples in natural environments at a high …

AFM-based force–distance curves are commonly used to characterize the nanomechanical
properties of live cells. The transformation of these curves into nanomechanical properties …

Over the past decades, increasing evidence has indicated that mechanical loads can
regulate the morphogenesis, proliferation, migration, and apoptosis of living cells …

The inherent membrane tension of biological materials could vitally affect their responses to
contact loading but is generally ignored in existing indentation analysis. In this paper, the …