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Identification and Analysis of Key Parameters for the Ossification on Particle Functionalized Composites Hydrogel Materials
ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2020, 12, 35, 38862–38872
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Anatolii Abalymov, Louis Van der Meeren, Mariia Saveleva, Ekaterina Prikhozhdenko, Koen Dewettinck, Bogdan Parakhonskiy, and Andre G. Skirtach
Cells-Grab-on Particles: A Novel Approach to Control Cell Focal Adhesion on Hybrid Thermally Annealed Hydrogels
ACS Biomater. Sci. Eng. 2020, 6, 7, 3933–3944
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Sara Amorim, Iva Pashkuleva, Celso A. Reis, Rui L. Reis and Ricardo A. Pires
Tunable layer-by-layer films containing hyaluronic acid and their interactions with CD44
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“The Young's modulus of the films was measured under QI Advanced Imaging Mode using qp-BioAC-CB3 probes (calibrated using the non-contact method in the JPK software; a resonance frequency of ∼23–37 kHz and a calibrated spring constant of ∼0.065 N m −1 …”
Kun Wang, Yuanfang Li, Chao Luo & Yong Chen
Dynamic AFM detection of the oxidation-induced changes in size, stiffness, and stickiness of low-density lipoprotein
Journal of Nanobiotechnology volume 18, Article number: 167 (2020)
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General cellular durotaxis induced with cell-scale heterogeneity of matrix-elasticity
Biomaterials, Volume 230, February 2020, 119647
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Jan Kotouček, František Hubatka, Josef Mašek, Pavel Kulich, Kamila Velínská, Jaroslava Bezděková, Martina Fojtíková, Eliška Bartheldyová, Andrea Tomečková, Jana Stráská, Dominik Hrebík, Stuart Macaulay, Irena Kratochvílová, Milan Raška & Jaroslav Turánek
Preparation of nanoliposomes by microfluidic mixing in herring-bone channel and the role of membrane fluidity in liposomes formation
Nature Scientific Reports volume 10, Article number: 5595 (2020)
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Daniel E. Barlow, Justin C. Biffinger, Luis Estrella, Qin Lu, Chia-Suei Hung, Lloyd J. Nadeau, Audra L. Crouch, John N. Russell Jr., and Wendy J. Crookes-Goodson
Edge-Localized Biodeterioration and Secondary Microplastic Formation by Papiliotrema laurentii Unsaturated Biofilm Cells on Polyurethane Films
Langmuir 2020, 36, 6, 1596–1607
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Roxanne Fournier and Rene E. Harrison
Methods for studying MLO-Y4 osteocytes in collagen-hydroxyapatite scaffolds in the rotary cell culture system
Connective Tissue Research 2020
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“A distance of 0 was considered stable suspension where forces F g , F d and F c are balanced. Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM). Quantitative Imaging (QI) was performed with a Nanowizard 4 Nanoscience AFM setup with qp-BioAC-10 cantilevers”
Dusan Mrdenovic, Marta Majewska, Izabela S. Pieta, Piotr Bernatowicz, Robert Nowakowski, Wlodzimierz Kutner, Jacek Lipkowski and Piotr Pieta
Size-dependent interaction of amyloid β oligomers with brain total lipid extract bilayer – fibrillation vs. membrane destruction
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Jianmin Song, Xianghe Meng, Hao Zhang, Kunming Zhao, Ying Hu, Hui Xie
Probing Multi-dimensional Mechanical Phenotyping of Intracellular Structures by Viscoelastic Spectroscopy
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces Just Accepted Manuscript (Dec. 2019)
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Lethality of Brucella microti in a murine model of infection depends on the wbkE gene involved in O-polysaccharide synthesis
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Exogenous GM3 ganglioside inhibits atherosclerosis via multiple steps: A potential atheroprotective drug
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Metal-Tunable Self-Assembly of Hierarchical Structure in Mussel-Inspired Peptide Films
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Hui Xie, Hao Zhang, Jianmin Song, Xianghe Meng, Yongbing Wen
High-Precision Automated Micromanipulation and Adhesive Microbonding with Cantilevered Micropipette Probes in Dynamic Probing Mode
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Self-assembly of phosphorylated dihydroceramide at Au (111) electrode surface
Materials Chemistry and Physics, Volume 186, 15 January 2017, Pages 212-219
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“The AFM images were taken in PeakForce Tapping mode using qp-BioAC cantilevers
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Meisam Asgari
Micro-mechanical, continuum-mechanical, and AFM-based descriptions of elasticity in open cylindrical micellar filaments
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J Juhaniewicz, S Sek
Interaction of Melittin with Negatively Charged Lipid Bilayers Supported on Gold Electrodes
Electrochimica Acta, Volume 197, 10 April 2016, Pages 336-343
“The images were taken in soft tapping mode using qp-BioAC probes (Nanosensors, Neuchatel,Switzerland) with nominal force constant of 0.06 N/m. Free oscillation amplitude was in the rangeof 15–20 nm, while the amplitude setpoint was kept between 10 and 15 nm.”
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013468615309105
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Electrochimica Acta, Volume 204, 20 June 2016, Pages 206-217
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“The images were collected in soft tapping mode using qp-BioAC probes (Nanosensors, Neuchatel, Switzerland) with nominal force constants in the range of 0.03–0.2 N/m. The amplitude of free oscillation of the cantilever was kept at 20 nm, while the setpoint for imaging was in ... “
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0013468616309161
Ryota Yamasaki, Yoshiyuki Takatsuji, Hitoshi Asakawa, Takeshi Fukuma, Tetsuya Haruyama,
Flattened-Top Domical Water Drops Formed through Self-Organization of Hydrophobin Membranes: A Structural and Mechanistic Study Using Atomic Force Microscopy
ACS Nano 2016, 10181-87, November 23, 2015
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“... These measurements were conducted using a qp-BioAC probe (spring constant = 0.1 N/m).”
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Adelaide Miranda, Marco Martins and Pieter A. A. De Beule
Simultaneous differential spinning disk fluorescence optical sectioning microscopy and nanomechanical mapping atomic force microscopy
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http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4931064?journalCode=rsi
“... On the contrary, only 0.06 V with a corresponding sensitivity of 10.00 nm V−1 has been observed for a relatively new type of cantilever whereby the gold coating only partly covers the AFM beam (qp-BioAC—Figure 3(b), NANOSENSORS uniqprobe, NanoWorld AG, Neuchâtel, Switzerland) as ... “
http://aip.scitation.org/doi/abs/10.1063/1.4931064?journalCode=rsi
Due to their unique geometry the tips of the uniqprobes are more susceptible to tip damage by electrostatic discharge (ESD) than other Silicon-SPM-Probes.
