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

The bottom-up assembly of biological and chemical components opens exciting
opportunities to engineer artificial vesicular systems for applications with previously unmet …

SARS-CoV-2 has been spreading around the world for the past year. Recently, several
variants such as B. 1.1. 7 (alpha), B. 1.351 (beta), and P. 1 (gamma), which share a key …

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM), a key invention in nanoscience, has by now been
extended to a wide spectrum of basic and applied fields. Its application to basic science led …

Biosensors and nanoscale analytical tools have shown huge growth in literature in the past
20 years, with a large number of reports on the topic of 'ultrasensitive','cost-effective', and …

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

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a powerful, multifunctional imaging platform that allows
biological samples, from single molecules to living cells, to be visualized and manipulated …

During the last three decades, a series of key technological improvements turned atomic
force microscopy (AFM) into a nanoscopic laboratory to directly observe and chemically …

Development of biosensing platforms plays a key role in research settings for identification
of biomarkers and in clinical applications for diagnostics. Biosensors based on nucleic acids …

Polymer adhesion is ubiquitous in both the natural world and human technology. It is also a
complex multiscale phenomenon, such that the solution of adhesion problems requires a …