Applications of AFM articles within Nature Materials

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• Article | 27 June 2022

  Subsecond multichannel magnetic control of select neural circuits in freely moving flies

  Here the authors describe a method for remote magnetothermal stimulation of neurons that achieves subsecond behavioural responses in Drosophila fruit flies by combining magnetic nanoparticles with TRPA1-A, a rate-sensitive thermoreceptor. Tuning the properties of magnetic nanoparticles to respond to different magnetic field strengths and frequencies enables multichannel thermal magnetogenetic stimulation.

  • Charles Sebesta
  • , Daniel Torres Hinojosa
  •  & Jacob T. Robinson

• Article | 05 August 2021

  UItra-low friction and edge-pinning effect in large-lattice-mismatch van der Waals heterostructures

  MoS₂/graphite and MoS₂/h-BN interfaces are shown to have ultra-low friction coefficients, whereas edges and interface steps mainly contribute to the friction force.

  • Mengzhou Liao
  • , Paolo Nicolini
  •  & Guangyu Zhang

• Letter | 17 June 2019

  Cellular nanoscale stiffness patterns governed by intracellular forces

  High-spatial-resolution mechanical imaging reveals that intracellular forces generate cellular nanoscale stiffness patterns.

  • Nicola Mandriota
  • , Claudia Friedsam
  •  & Ozgur Sahin

• News & Views | 01 December 2017

  Instant integrin mechanosensing

  Single-cell force spectroscopy reveals rapid, biphasic integrin activation and reinforcement of cell–matrix bonds during the initial steps of fibroblast adhesion.

  • Ning Wang

• Article | 06 November 2017

  Fibronectin-bound α5β1 integrins sense load and signal to reinforce adhesion in less than a second

  Integrins play an important role in the adhesion of cells to their matrix. Here, the authors investigate how fibroblasts respond to mechanical loads, at the onset of cell adhesion to fibronectin, in distinct phases that are modulated by integrins.

  • Nico Strohmeyer
  • , Mitasha Bharadwaj
  •  & Daniel J. Müller

• News & Views | 18 September 2017

  Nanostructure evolution

  DNA origami nanostructures were utilized to replicate a seed pattern that resulted in the growth of populations of nanostructures. Exponential growth could be controlled by environmental conditions depending on the preferential requirements of each population.

  • Friedrich C. Simmel

• Article | 10 August 2014

  Interplay of matrix stiffness and protein tethering in stem cell differentiation

  Recent work has proposed that both protein tethering to the extracellular matrix and matrix porosity can regulate stem cell differentiation. It is now shown that differentiation is driven by matrix stiffness independently of tethering and porosity.

  • Jessica H. Wen
  • , Ludovic G. Vincent
  •  & Adam J. Engler