IBM scientists, in collaboration with the University of Regensburg in Germany, are the first ever to measure the force it takes to move individual atoms on a surface. This fundamental measurement ...

Measuring forces from the piconewton to millinewton range is of great importance for the study of living systems from a biophysical perspective. The use of flexible micropipettes as highly sensitive ...

Mechanical forces are crucial to essentially every cellular activity including intracellular transportation, cell division and differentiation, cell-cell interaction and cell death. The quantification ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- IBM scientists in collaboration with the University of Regensburg, Germany, and Utrecht University, Netherlands, for the first time demonstrated the ability to measure the charge ...

The piezoelectric sensors operate according to the piezoelectric effect: electric polarisation occurs upon mechanical deformation of crystals with polar axes. Depending on the cross section, in quartz ...

IBM scientists, in collaboration with the University of Regensburg in Germany, are the first ever to measure the force it takes to move individual atoms on a surface. This fundamental measurement ...