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Optimizing Piezoelectric Coefficient in PVDF Fibers: Key Strategies for Energy Harvesting and Smart Textiles
Sukumaran et al. Advanced Electronic Materials, 2300404, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202300404
High-resolution magnetic imaging by mapping the locally induced anomalous Nernst effect using atomic force microscopy
Nico Budai et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 122, 102401 (2023)
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0136613
Process intermittent quantitative analysis of the wear of ultra-small micro end mills
S. Kieren-Ehses et al., CIRP Annals, 2023
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cirp.2023.04.046
Compatible Solution-Processed Interface Materials for Improved Efficiency of Polymer Solar Cells. Adv. Mater. Interfaces
Xu, Z., Madalaimuthu et al., Advanced Material Interfaces 2022, 2201740. d
https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202201740
Live-seq enables temporal transcriptomic recording of single cells
Chen, W. et al., Nature 608, 733–740 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-022-05046-9
Cell clusters softening triggers collective cell migration in vivo
Marchant, C.L. et al., Nat. Mater. 21, 1214-1323 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-022-01323-0
Extending applications of AFM to fluidic AFM in single living cell studies
Qiu, Y. et al., Journal of Cellular Physiology, 237, 3222– 3238 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1002/jcp.30809
High-resolution mass measurements of single budding yeast reveal linear growth segments
Cuny, A.P. et al., Nat Commun 13, 3483 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30781-y
Reconstituted virus-nucleus system reveals mechanics of herpesvirus genome uncoating
Evilevitch, A., & Tsimtsirakis, E. QRB Discovery (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1017/qrd.2021.14
Breakthrough instruments and products: DriveAFM for high-performance
Jonathan D. Adams et al., Review of Scientific Instruments 92, 129503
https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0081190
Injection into and extraction from single fungal cells
Guillaume-Gentil, O. et al., Commun Biol 5, 180 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-022-03127-z
Magnetic Surfaces for Photo-Isomerization of Azobenzene Based Polymer Probed Using magneto Optical mathod
Sengupta, R. et al. topics in Catalysis (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s11244-022-01594-6
Mitochondria transplantation between living cells
Gäbelein CG et al., PLoS Biol 20(3): e3001576 (2022)
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001576
Statistical analysis of periodic fibrous structures by AFM
Tomasz Blachowicz et al., Applied Sciences, 11, 5, 2436 (2021)
https://doi.org/10.3390/app11052436
Evaluation of electronical and magnetic signals in heat resistant alloys
M.P. Arenas et al., Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, Volume 491, 165578 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2019.165578
Functional Plasma Polymerized Surfaces for Biosensing
Ekaterina Makhneva et al. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 12 (14), 17100-17112 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c01443
Combined Ion Conductance and Atomic Force Microscope for Fast Simultaneous Topographical and Surface Charge Imaging
Livie Dorwling-Carter et al., Analytical Chemistry 2018 90 (19), 11453-11460
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.analchem.8b02569
Superhydrophobic property enhancement on guard ring micro-patterned PDMS with simple flame treatment
Nithi Atthi et al., Jpn. J. Appl. Phys. 59 (2020)
10.35848/1347-4065/ab7610
Liquid-Infused Structured Titanium Surfaces: Antiadhesive Mechanism to Repel Streptococcus oralis Biofilms
Katharina Doll et al., ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 2019 11 (26), 23026-23038
https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b06817
Assessment of corneal substrate biomechanics and its effect on epithelial stem cell maintenance and differentiation
Gouveia, R.M. et al., Nat Commun 10, 1496 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09331-6
Large-area Scanning Probe Nanolithography Facilitated by Automated Alignment and Its Application to Substrate Fabrication for Cell Culture Studies
Lee, I.N. et al., J. Vis. Exp. (136), e56967 (2018)
https://dx.doi.org/10.3791/56967
Femtosecond laser damage of germanium from near- to mid-infrared wavelengths
Drake R. Austin et al., Opt. Lett. 43, 3702-3705 (2018)
10.1364/OL.43.003702
Photoinduced Step-Growth Polymerization of N-Ethylcarbazole
Erdem Sari et al., Journal of the American Chemical Society 2018 140 (40), 12728-12731
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.8b08668
Efficient planar heterojunction perovskite solar cells employing a solution-processed Zn-doped NiOX hole transport layer
Ju Ho Lee et al., Electrochimica Acta Volume 284, Pages 253-259 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electacta.2018.07.178
Biomimetic Surface Structuring Using Laser Based Interferometric Methods
Andrés Fabian lasagni et al., Appl. Sci. 2018, 8 (8), 1260
https://doi.org/10.3390/app8081260
Core-shell spheroidal microparticles with polystyrene cores and rich in polyglycidol shells
Patrycja Komar et al., Polymer, Volume 146, 2018, Pages 6-11
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.polymer.2018.05.039
AFM nano-mechanical study of the beating profile of hiPSC-derived cardiomyocytes beating bodies WT and DM1
S. Dinarelli et al., Journal of Molecular Recognition, Vol 31, Issue 10, 2018
https://doi.org/10.1002/jmr.2725
Local Chemical Stimulation of Neurons with the Fluidic Force Microscope (FluidFM)
Mathias J. Aebersold et al., ChemPhysChem, Vol 19, Issue 10, 2017
https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.201700780
Gold Layers on Elastomers near the Critical Stress Regime
Bekim Osmani et al., Adv. Mater. Technol., 2017, 2
https://doi.org/10.1002/admt.201700105
Nanomechanical probing of thin-film dielectric elastomer transducers
Bekim Osmani et al., Appl. Phys. Lett. 111, 093104 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5000736
Electrospraying and ultraviolet light curing of nanometer-thin polydimethylsiloxane membranes for low-voltage dielectric elastomer transducers
Bekim Osmani et al., Electroactive Polymer Actuators and Devices (2017), 101631E
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2258214
Assessing the Electrochemical Behavior of Microcontact-Printed Silver Nanogrids
Wesley C. Sanders et al., Journal of Chemical Education 2018 95 (2), 315-319
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jchemed.7b00403
Perovskite Thin Film Synthesised from Sputtered Lead Sulphide
Silva Filho et al., Sci Rep 8, 1563 (2018)
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19746-8
Doping graphene via organic solid-solid wetting deposition
Alexander Eberle et al., Carbon, Volume 125, 2017, Pages 84-92
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.carbon.2017.09.043
CoreAFM: Research Grade AFM Platform with Application Modularity
Christian Bippes et al., Microscopy Today, Vol 25, Issue 6, Nov 2017, Pages 20-25
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1551929517000992
Long-term imaging of cellular forces with high precision by elastic resonator interference stress microscopy
Kronenberg, N. et al., L. Nat Cell Biol 19, 864–872 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb3561
Template curvature influences cell alignment to create improved human corneal tissue equivalents
Ricardo M. Gouveia et al., Advanced Biosystems 1700135 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1002/adbi.201700135
Inertial picobalance reveals fast mass fluctuations in mammalian cells
Martínez-Martín, D. et al., Nature 550, 500–505 (2017)
https://doi.org/10.1038/nature24288
Method for lateral force calibration in atomic force microscope using MEMS microforce sensor
Cezary Dziekoński et al., Ultramicroscopy, Volume 182, 2017, Pages 1-9
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2017.06.012
Doxorubicin Adsorbed on Carbon Nanotubes: Helical Structure and New Release Trigger
Shamaila Sadaf et al., Adv. Mater. Interfaces 2017, 1700649
https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.201700649
Global Perspectives of Nanoscience and Engineering Education
Kurt Winkelmann et al., Science Policy Reports (2016)
ISBN 978-3-319-31833-2
High performance all-small-molecule solar cells: engineering the nanomorphology via processing additives
Jie Min et al., Journal of Materials Chemistry
https://doi.org/10.1039/C6TA05303C
Colloidal Properties of Recombinant Spider Silk Protein Particles
Nicolas Helfricht et al., The Journal of Physical Chemistry C 2016 120 (32), 18015-18027
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.6b03957
Turnable Single-Cell Extraction for Molecular Analyses
Orane Guillaume-Gentil et al., Cell 166 (2016) 506-516
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2016.06.025
Morphology and conductivity of Au films on polydimethylsiloxane using (3-mercaptopropyl)trimethoxysilane (MPTMS) as an adhesion promoter
Bekim Osmani et al., SPIE Proceedings (2016), 979822
https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2219199
Quantification of Fewer than Ten Copies of a DNA Biomarker without Amplification or Labeling
Yoonhee Lee et al., JACS 138 (2016) 7075-7081
https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.6b02791
Deformability Assessment of Waterborne Protozoa Using a Microfluidic-Enabled Force Microscopy Probe
John S. McGrath et al., PLoS ONE 11 (2016) e0150438
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0150438
An Intensive Short Course on Atomic-Force Microscopy
Nancy A. Burnham et al., BFY Conference Proceedings (2015) 24-27
https://doi.org/10.1119/bfy.2015.pr.006
Poly(vinylferrocene)–Reduced Graphene Oxide as a High Power/High Capacity Cathodic Battery Material
Seyyed Mohsen Beladi-Mousavi et al., Advanced Energy Materials, Vol 6, Issue 12 (2016)
https://doi.org/10.1002/aenm.201600108
Defect engineering as a versatile route to estimate various scattering mechanisms in monolayer graphene on solid substrates
Pawan Kumar Srivastava et al., Nanoscale 7, Issue 38, 16079, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5NR04293C
Siloxane-based thin films for biomimetic low-voltage dielectric actuators
Tino Töpper et al., Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, Volume 233, 2015, Pages 32-41
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sna.2015.06.014
Large-area scanning probe nanolithography facilitated by automated alignment of probe arrays
Shuau Wang et al., RSC Advances 5 (2015) 61402
10.1039/C5RA11967G
Integration of Magnetoresistive Sensors With Atomic Force Microscopy Cantilevers for Scanning Magnetoresistance Microscopy Applications
Margaret Costa et al., IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 51 (2015) 6503104
10.1109/TMAG.2015.2448612
Assembly of Extra-Large Nanosheets by Supramolecular Polymerization of Amphiphilic Pyrene Oligomers in Aqueous Solution
Mykhailo Vybornyi et al., Chemistry of Materials 2015 27 (4), 1426-1431
https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.chemmater.5b00047
Force-Controlled Patch Clamp of Beating Cardiac Cells
Dario Ossola et al., Nano Lett. 2015, 15, 3, 1743-1750
https://doi.org/10.1021/nl504438z
Bacterial adhesion force quantification by fluidic force microscopy
Eva Potthoff et al., Nanoscale 7 (2015) 4070
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4NR06495J
Das didaktische der Rastertunnelmikroskopie in der Hochschullehre
PD Dr. Simon Penner et al., Chemkon, Vol 22, Issue 1, P. 15-22 (2015)
https://doi.org/10.1002/ckon.201410236
Mechanical bending properties of sodium titanate (Na2Ti3O7) nanowires
Arixin Bo et al., RSC Advances 4 (2014) 56970
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4RA11753K
Redox Levels of Dithiols in II–VI Quantum Dots vis-à-vis Photoluminescence Quenching: Insight from Scanning Tunneling Spectroscopy
Biswajit Kundu et al., Chemistry of Materials 2014 26 (19), 5506-5513
https://doi.org/10.1021/cm501469f
Differential nuclear expression of Yap in basal epithelial cells across the cornea and substrates of differing stiffness
PJames W. Foster et al., Experimental Eye Research, Volume 127, 2014, Pages 37-41
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exer.2014.06.020
Force-controlled manipulation of single cells: from AFM to FluidFM
Orane Guillaume-Gentil et al., Trends in Biotechnology 32 (2014) 381
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tibtech.2014.04.008
Non-contact-mode AFM induced versus spontaneous formed phenytoin crystals: the effect of layer thickness
Heike M. A. Ehmann et al., CrystEngComm 16 (2014) 4950
https://doi.org/10.1039/C4CE00424H
The effects of the growth pressure and annealing conditions on perpendicular magnetic anisotropy of sputtered NdFeCo films on Si(111)
Liuniu Tong et al., Journal of Alloys and Compounds, Volume 605, 2014, Pages 149-156
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jallcom.2014.03.146
Scaling and Exponent Equalities in Island Nucleation: Novel Results and Application to Organic Films
Alberto Pimpinelli et al., The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 2014 5 (6), 995-9985)
https://doi.org/10.1021/jz500282t
Exchangeable Colloidal AFM Probes for the Quantification of Irreversible and Long-Term Interactions
Pablo Dörig et al., Biophysical Journal 105 (2013) 463
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bpj.2013.06.002
Hydrogen plasma microlithography of graphene supported on a Si/SiO2 substrate
Baran Eren et al., Applied Physics Letters 102 (2013) 071602
https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4793197
Efficient CulnS2/ZnS based quantum dot light emitting diodes by engineering the exciton formation interface
Xia Huangad et al., Journal of Luminescence Vol 202, Oct 2018, Pages 339-344
https://doi.org/10.3390/app8081260
A versatile small molecular electron donor with 2-dimensional conjugation structure for efficient organic solar cells compatible with both fullerene and non-fullerene electron acceptors
Jae Woong Jung, Dyes and Pigments, Volume 161, Pages 214-220 (2019)
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dyepig.2018.08.008