Calibrating the Young’s modulus of soft materials with surface tilt angle measured by atomic force microscopy

We investigated the apparent Young’s modulus, Em, of soft materials with the surface tilt angle, as measured by colloidal probe atomic force microscopy (AFM). The AFM measurements of soft polymer hydrogels and natural unfertilized eggs showed a clear universal behavior of Em as a function of the til...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yuki Fujii, Takaharu Okajima
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2019-01-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5046372