AFM is particularly well-suited to working with soft materials in the field of nanomechanical measurements, owing to its piconewton force resolution and sub-nanometer vertical displacement accuracy.

Single-cell force spectroscopy (SCFS) refers to a family of techniques that quantify the mechanical interaction between an individual living cell and a substrate, a neighbouring cell or extracellular ...

Single-molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS) has emerged as a powerful approach to probe the mechanics, kinetics and energetics of individual biomolecules as they undergo folding, binding and chemical ...