Polymeric micelles, ie aggregation colloids formed in solution by self-assembling of
amphiphilic polymers, represent an innovative tool to overcome several issues related to …

Physical forces and mechanical properties have critical roles in cellular function, physiology
and disease. Over the past decade, atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques have …

The generic term “melanin “describes a black pigment of biological origin, although some
melanins can be brown or even yellow. The pigment is characterized as a heterogenic …

Atomic force microscopy is an amazing technique that allies a versatile methodology (that
allows measurement of samples in liquid, vacuum or air) to imaging with unprecedented …

The atomic force microscope (AFM) has found wide applicability as a nanoindentation tool to
measure local elastic properties of soft materials. An automated approach to the processing …

Glioblastoma (GBM) is the fatal brain tumor in which secreted lactate enhances the
expression of cluster of differentiation 44 (CD44) and the release of exosomes, cell-derived …

In recent years, a great deal of interest has been focused on the development of novel
atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based methods. From first being an unstable method, AFM …

Nanoemulsion-based systems are widely applied in food industries for protecting active
ingredients against oxidation and degradation and controlling the release rate of active core …

Conventional atomic force microscopes (AFMs) take at least 30–60 s to capture an image,
while dynamic biomolecular processes occur on a millisecond timescale or less. To narrow …

To introduce this special issue of the Journal of Molecular Recognition dedicated to the
applications of atomic force microscopy (AFM) in life sciences, this paper presents a short …