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 for nanoscale mechanical property characterization

G Stan, SW King - Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology B, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
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 …

Band excitation in scanning probe microscopy: sines of change

S Jesse, SV Kalinin - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
In the three decades since scanning probe microscopy (SPM) methods have entered the
scientific arena, they have become one of the main tools of nanoscale science and …

Quantification of surface displacements and electromechanical phenomena via dynamic atomic force microscopy

N Balke, S Jesse, P Yu, B Carmichael… - …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Detection of dynamic surface displacements associated with local changes in material strain
provides access to a number of phenomena and material properties. Contact resonance …

Contact resonance force microscopy for viscoelastic property measurements: from fundamentals to state-of-the-art applications

JP Killgore, FW DelRio - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
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 …

Microfluidic in-situ measurement of Poisson's ratio of hydrogels

J Cappello, V d'Herbemont, A Lindner, O Du Roure - Micromachines, 2020 - mdpi.com
Being able to precisely characterize the mechanical properties of soft microparticles is
essential for numerous situations, from the understanding of the flow of biological fluids to …

Advances in acoustic microscopy and high resolution ultrasonic imaging: from principles to new applications

RG Maev - Medical Imaging 2014: Ultrasonic Imaging and …, 2014 - spiedigitallibrary.org
The goal of this lecture is to provide an overview of the recent advances in high-resolution
ultrasonic imaging principles and techniques and their biomedical applications. This lecture …

Contact resonance force microscopy techniques for nanomechanical measurements

B Bhushan, H Fuchs, DC Hurley - Applied Scanning Probe Methods XI …, 2009 - Springer
Contact resonance force microscopy (CR-FM) methods such as atomic force acoustic
microscopy show great promise as tools for nanoscale materials research. However …

Mapping the elastic properties of granular Au films by contact resonance atomic force microscopy

G Stan, RF Cook - Nanotechnology, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Endowed with nanoscale spatial resolution, contact resonance atomic force microscopy (CR-
AFM) provides extremely localized elastic property measurements. We advance here the …

Shear Anisotropy Domains on Graphene Revealed by In-Plane Elastic Imaging

C Ma, Y Li, C Zhou, Y Chen, E Gnecco, J Chu - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Anisotropic domains with 180° periodicity are known to be universally present on graphene
as well as on other two-dimensional (2D) crystals. The physical origin of the domains and …