An AFM-based stiffness clamp for dynamic control of rigidity.

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has become a powerful tool for measuring material properties in biology and imposing mechanical boundary conditions on samples from single molecules to cells and tissues. Constant force or constant height can be maintained in an AFM experiment through feedback control o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Kevin D Webster, Ailey Crow, Daniel A Fletcher
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2011-03-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3050926?pdf=render