Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and the Helmholtz Institute Mainz (HIM) have developed a novel method for investigating the internal structure of atoms and discovered ...

Single-cell force spectroscopy (SCFS) refers to a family of techniques that quantify the mechanical interaction between an individual living cell and a substrate, a neighbouring cell or extracellular ...

Single-molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS) has emerged as a powerful approach to probe the mechanics, kinetics and energetics of individual biomolecules as they undergo folding, binding and chemical ...

Conductive and photoconductive atomic force microscopy are variations of atomic force microscopy (AFM). Conductive AFM simply measures the electrical conductivity of materials while photoconductive ...

When researchers want to uncover what atoms make up a material, they turn to a number of tried-and-true spectroscopy methods. Spectroscopy works by shining a specific type of light onto a substance ...

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AFM is particularly well-suited to working with soft materials in the field of nanomechanical measurements, owing to its piconewton force resolution and sub-nanometer vertical displacement accuracy.