Over the past several decades, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has advanced from a
technique used primarily for surface topography imaging to one capable of characterizing a …

Electrochemical energy storage is the key enabling component of electric vehicles and solar‐
/wind‐based energy technologies. The enhancement of energy stored requires the detailed …

Designing sustainable electrodes for next generation energy storage devices relies on the
understanding of their fundamental properties at the nanoscale, including the …

The development of low-cost, high-performance, and stable non-noble metal
electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) applications are crucial for future …

Contact resonance force microscopy (CRFM) is an atomic force microscopy (AFM) method
that evolved from a curiosity about the detection of ultrasonic vibrations with an AFM …

Imaging of subsurface features down to the nanometer scale is of great importance in
various fields such as microelectronics, materials science, nanobiology, and nanomedicine …

Nondestructive subsurface nanoimaging of buried nanostructures is considered to be
extremely challenging and is essential for the reliable manufacturing of nanotechnology …

Nanomechanical properties are closely related to the states of matter, including chemical
composition, crystal structure, mesoscopic domain configuration, etc. Investigation of these …

Contact Resonance Force Microscopy (CR-FM) is a leading atomic force microscopy
technique for measuring viscoelastic nano-mechanical properties. Conventional piezo …

Hexadecane exhibits pronounced molecular layering upon confinement to gaps of a few
nanometer width which is discussed for its role in boundary lubrication. We have probed the …