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

Hydration layers are ubiquitous in life and technology. Hence, interfacial aqueous layers
have a central role in a wide range of phenomena from materials science to molecular and …

Nature utilizes the available resources to construct lightweight, strong and tough materials
under constrained environmental conditions. The impact surface of the fast-striking dactyl …

Multifunctional living materials are attractive due to their powerful ability to self-repair and
replicate. However, most natural materials lack electronic functionality. Here we show that …

Metallic glasses (MGs), with high density of low coordination sites and high Gibbs free
energy state, are novel promising and competitive candidates in the family of …

Additive manufacturing or, as also called, three-dimensional (3D) printing is considered as a
game-changer in replacing traditional processing methods in numerous applications; yet, it …

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 …

The ability to probe a material's electromechanical functionality on the nanoscale is critical to
applications from energy storage and computing to biology and medicine. Voltage …

Abstract Hypothesis Strikingly, Kraft lignin nanoparticles (KLNPs) can substitute polluting
nanoparticles in a diverse field of applications. An attractive method for synthesizing KLNPs …

Quantitative mapping of viscoelastic properties of soft matter with a nanoscale spatial
resolution is an active and relevant research topic in atomic force microscopy (AFM) and …