The project NANOFORCELLS- A nanomechanical tool-box for the investigation of cell mechanics – aims at developing a set of tools and demonstrate their potential for the study of individual cell mechanics and sub-cellular structures. In the past decade, many cell mechanisms have been disentangled. These findings have highlighted the communication of cells in two directions,…

In this paper we show that the detection back-action phenomenon is very significant in ultrathin bimetallic cantilevers, in which the laser beam that probes the picometer scale vibration largely modifies the resonant frequencies of the system. We demonstrate that this effect arises from the stress and strain generated by the laser heating. The experiments are…

The Workshop on Nanomechanical Sensing focuses on new developments, investigations, applications of cantilever-based sensors, cantilever systems engineering and other nanomechanical sensing techniques (QCM, Nanowires and Graphene). It aims at bringing together companies and academia to present their latest results in a lively and personal atmosphere. This workshop is a follow up of workshops held in…

Work by the Bionanomechanics Lab in collaboration with Mecwins and Nanosens presented in Review of Scientific Instruments. It shows single experiment measurement of a two-dimensional array of 128 cantilevers. In this work we measure the nanometer-scale bending of the 128 cantilevers, previously coated with a thin gold layer, induced by the adsorption and self-assembly on…

Despite the biological relevance, the physical origin of attraction between highly negatively charged DNA strands in condensation remains an open question. We have used microcantilever sensors to study the forces involved in DNA condensation by spermidine. Source:

Published in Journal of Applied Physics a technique by the Bionanomechanics Lab that simultaneously provides a complete map of the resonant properties together nm-resolution topography. Source: http://jap.aip.org/resource/1/japiau/v109/i6/p064315_s1