Publications de Blake William Erickson

Reducing uncertainties in energy dissipation measurements in atomic force spectroscopy of molecular networks and cell-adhesion studies

Georg Fantner, Blake William Erickson, Soma Biswas, Samuel Mendes Leitão, Quentin Antoine Marie Theillaud

Atomic force microscope (AFM) based single molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS) is a valuable tool in biophysics to investigate the ligand-receptor interactions, cell adhesion and cell mechanics. However, the force spectroscopy data analysis needs to be done ...

Nature Research2018

Harnessing the damping properties of materials for high-speed atomic force microscopy

Jürgen Brugger, Georg Fantner, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt, Jonas Grossenbacher, Blake William Erickson, Jonathan David Adams

The success of high-speed atomic force microscopy in imaging molecular motors1, enzymes2 and microbes3 in liquid environments suggests that the technique could be of significant value in a variety of areas of nanotechnology. However, the majority of atomic ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Growth and dissolution of calcite in the presence of adsorbed stearic acid

Francesco Stellacci, Georg Fantner, Kislon Voitchovsky, Blake William Erickson, Maria Ricci, Juan José Segura Sugranes

The interaction of organic molecules with the surface of calcite plays a central role in many geochemical, petrochemical and industrial processes and in biomineralization. Adsorbed organics, typically fatty acids, can interfere with the evolution of calcit ...

American Chemical Society2015

Studying biological membranes with extended range high-speed atomic force microscopy

Georg Fantner, Nahid Hosseini, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt, Blake William Erickson, Jonathan David Adams

High-speed atomic force microscopy has proven to be a valuable tool for the study of biomolecular systems at the nanoscale. Expanding its application to larger biological specimens such as membranes or cells has, however, proven difficult, often requiring ...

Nature Publishing Group2015

High-speed imaging upgrade for a standard sample scanning atomic force microscope using small cantilevers

Georg Fantner, Adrian Pascal Nievergelt, Blake William Erickson, Maja Dukic Pjanic, Jonathan David Adams

We present an atomic force microscope (AFM) head for optical beam deflection on small cantilevers. Our AFM head is designed to be small in size, easily integrated into a commercial AFM system, and has a modular architecture facilitating exchange of the opt ...

2014

Nanoscale Calorimetry Reveals Higher Stability of Cholesterol Induced Nanoscale Domains in Lipid Bilayers

Georg Fantner, Blake William Erickson

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press2014

Large-scale analysis of high-speed atomic force microscopy data sets using adaptive image processing

Georg Fantner, Blake William Erickson, Jonathan David Adams, Séverine Coquoz

Modern high-speed atomic force microscopes generate significant quantities of data in a short amount of time. Each image in the sequence has to be processed quickly and accurately in order to obtain a true representation of the sample and its changes over ...

Beilstein-Institut2012