Skin wound healing is a vital process that is important for re-establishing the epithelial barrier
following disease or injury. Aberrant or delayed skin wound healing increases the risk of …

Figure 2. High-resolution Scanning Electron Micrographs (A and B) and AFM (C) show glue
resisting fracture in bone. Cartoon (D) shows two adjoining mineralized collagen fibrils at rest…

This review is summarizing the results obtained from atomic force microscopy (AFM) and
nanoindentation experiments to date. The combination of both techniques is especially powerful…

… PJ Thurner and PK Hansma are with the Department of Physics, University of California,
Santa Barbara, CA 93106 USA (e-mail: thurner@physics. ucsb.edu; prasant@physics.ucsb.edu)…

Many applications in materials science, life science and process control would benefit from
atomic force microscopes (AFM) with higher scan speeds. To achieve this, the performance …

A novel design of a scanning unit for atomic force microscopy (AFM) is presented that enables
scanning speeds three orders of magnitude faster than compared to conventional AFMs. …

The ability of bone to resist catastrophic failure is critically dependent upon the material
properties of bone matrix, a composite of hydroxyapatite, collagen type I, and noncollagenous …

Hexactinellid sponges are known for their ability to synthesize unusually long and highly
flexible fibrous spicules, which serve as the building blocks of their skeletal systems. The …

10.7554/eLife.36354.001 Matrix stiffening with downstream activation of mechanosensitive
pathways is strongly implicated in progressive fibrosis; however, pathologic changes in …

In the nanocomposite bone, inorganic material is combined with several types of organic
molecules, and these complexes have been proposed to increase the bone strength. Here we …