Biological systems, ranging from single molecules to cells and tissues, have heterogeneous structural, biophysical and chemical properties that change dynamically to fulfill versatile functions. At ...

The term tribology is derived from the Greek word "tribo" meaning rubbing and "logy" meaning knowledge. The original applications by the Greeks of tribology were in trying to understand the motion of ...

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) is an advanced material imaging technique, which is able to provide accurate topographic images of a surface. It was created by Gerd Binning and Heinrich Rohrer in 1986 ...

New model extracts stiffness and fluidity from AFM data in minutes, enabling fast, accurate mechanical characterization of living cells at single-cell resolution. (Nanowerk Spotlight) Cells are not ...

Over the last century, humans have experienced multiple severe viral outbreaks, including the Spanish flu and other influenza epidemics, HIV, SARS-CoV, MERS, Ebola, and the recent SARS-CoV2 pandemic.