Quantum tunnelling — when a particle skips through a barrier that classical physics would forbid — happens faster when objects have less energy, find physicists who worked out a way to probe photons ...

Coordinated and synchronous contraction of cardiomyocytes ensures a normal cardiac function while deranged contraction of cardiomyocytes can lead to heart failure and circulatory dysfunction. Detailed ...

In this study, Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) was used to examine how temperature affects the mechanical properties of polymer materials, with a focus on Young’s modulus. The PinPoint ™ nanomechanical ...

In existing control methods for optical tweezers, the trapping stiffness is usually assumed to be constant and known exactly. However, the stiffness varies according to the size of the trapped ...

Regulated cell death (RCD) is pivotal in developmental biology, disease pathology, target identification, and drug discovery. Existing RCD detection methods, reliant on biomarkers and fluorescent ...

We present new insights into the modeling of the microcantilever in dynamic mode atomic force microscopy and outline a novel high-bandwidth tip-sample force estimation technique for the development of ...

Today we're looking at Atomic Force Microscopy! I built a "macro-AFM" to demonstrate the principles of an atomic force microscope, then we look at a real AFM (an nGauge AFM from ICSPI) and do a ...

The team's approach uses AFM in several advanced modes—including Kelvin probe force microscopy and photoinduced force microscopy. These methods measure changes in surface potential, stiffness ...