Applied Scanning Probe Methods XIII

1. Direct Force Measurements of Receptor–Ligand Interactions on Living Cells
Robert H. Eibl

2. Imaging Chemical Groups and Molecular Recognition Sites on Live Cells Using AFM
David Alsteens, Vincent Dupres, Etienne Dague, Claire Verbelen, Guillaume André, Grégory Francius, Yves F. Dufrêne

3. Applications of Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy in Life Science
Pietro Giuseppe Gucciardi

4. Adhesion and Friction Properties of Polymers at Nanoscale: Investigation by AFM
Sophie Bistac, Marjorie Schmitt

5. Mechanical Characterization of Materials by Micro-Indentation and AFM Scanning
Gabriella Bolzon, Massimiliano Bocciarelli, Enzo J. Chiarullo

6. Mechanical Properties of Metallic Nanocontacts
G. Rubio-Bollinger, J.J. Riquelme, S. Vieira, N. Agraït

7. Dynamic AFM in Liquids: Viscous Damping and Applications to the Study of Confined Liquids
Abdelhamid Maali, Touria Cohen-Bouhacina, Cedric Hurth, Cédric Jai, R. Boisgard, Jean-Pierre Aimé

8. Microtensile Tests Using In Situ Atomic Force Microscopy
Udo Lang, Jurg Dual

9. Scanning Tunneling Microscopy of the Si(111)-7×7 Surface and Adsorbed Ge Nanostructures
Haiming Guo, Yeliang Wang, Hongjun Gao

Keywords: Chemistry, Nanotechnology, Surfaces and Interfaces, Thin Films, Polymer Sciences, Physical Chemistry, Solid State Physics and Spectroscopy