Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a powerful technique that enables ... geometry to nanometer scale could induce several leakage mechanisms including short-channel effects, gate dielectric direct ...

Within a decade, this unconventional microscope has evolved into a multifunctional ... surface properties and to elucidate the molecular mechanisms of cell adhesion. Microfabricated cantilever ...

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a way to investigate the surface features of some materials. It works by “feeling” or “touching” the surface with an extremely small probe. This provides a ...

Without the need for a current, such an "atomic force microscope" (AFM) could reveal the structure of nonconductive materials such as proteins, organelles, and whole cells. Immediately thereafter, the ...

Researchers found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteria rapidly assemble their T6SS nanoweapons in response to outer membrane ...

Chinese researchers are working to develop molecular hard drives with high capacity The drives use organometallic molecules ...

Foster and Takeshi Fukuma at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University in Japan have successfully ...

Real-time dynamics of protein translocation across bacterial membrane using high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM ... is critical to the translocation mechanism. The hydrolysis of ATP ...

Limitations of the three putative mechanisms of amyloid fibril assembly ... X-ray fibril diffraction and atomic force microscopy (AFM) analysis. Quaternary structure formation (assembly) and ...

mobile's motility mechanisms. This time, with the help of Osaka University's cryo-electron microscopy equipment, the scientists revealed at near-atomic resolution the enzymes known as ATPases that ...