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Our two main research axes are high speed atomic force microscopy and the combination of different microscopy techniques.

We focus mainly on the fabrication of various AFM cantilevers. Our approach is to optimise the performance through material engineering.
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A biphasic growth model for cell pole elongation in mycobacteria
Nature Communications. 2020-01-23. Vol. 11, p. 452. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-14088-z.
Integration of sharp silicon nitride tips into high-speed SU8 cantilevers in a batch fabrication process
Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. 2019-11-29. Vol. 10, p. 2357–2363. DOI : 10.3762/bjnano.10.226.
Overlapping and essential roles for molecular and mechanical mechanisms in mycobacterial cell division
Nature Physics. 2020. Vol. 16, p. 57–62. DOI : 10.1038/s41567-019-0679-1.
Batch Fabrication of Multilayer Polymer Cantilevers with Integrated Hard Tips for High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy
2019-08-22. Transducers & Eurosensors XXXIII, Berlin, Germany, June 23-27, 2019. DOI : 10.1109/TRANSDUCERS.2019.8808606.Large‐Range HS‐AFM Imaging of DNA Self‐Assembly through In Situ Data‐Driven Control
Small Methods. 2019. Vol. 3, p. 1900031. DOI : 10.1002/smtd.201900031.
Single-molecule kinetics of pore assembly by the membrane attack complex
Nature Communications. 2019-05-06. Vol. 10, p. 2066. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-019-10058-7.
Increased drug permeability of a stiffened mycobacterial outer membrane in cells lacking MFS transporter Rv1410 and lipoprotein LprG
Molecular Microbiology. 2019-05-01. Vol. 111, num. 5, p. 1263-1282. DOI : 10.1111/mmi.14220.
Detecting topological variations of DNA at single-molecule level
Nature Communications. 2019. Vol. 10, p. 3. DOI : 10.1038/s41467-018-07924-1.
An analog high-speed single-cycle lock-in amplifier for next generation AFM experiments
2018-01-01. 17th IEEE SENSORS Conference, New Delhi, INDIA, Oct 28-31, 2018. p. 168-171. DOI : 10.1109/ICSENS.2018.8589857.
Air and Water-Stable n-Type Doping and Encapsulation of Flexible MoS2 Devices with SU8
Advanced Electronic Materials. 2018-11-09. p. 1800492. DOI : 10.1002/aelm.201800492.
Maturing Mycobacterium smegmatis peptidoglycan requires non-canonical crosslinks to maintain shape
Elife. 2018-10-16. Vol. 7, p. e37516. DOI : 10.7554/eLife.37516.Photothermal Off-Resonance Tapping for Rapid and Gentle Atomic Force Imaging of Live Cells
International Journal of Molecular Sciences. 2018-09-30. Vol. 19, num. 10, p. 2984. DOI : 10.3390/ijms19102984.
Reducing uncertainties in energy dissipation measurements in atomic force spectroscopy of molecular networks and cell-adhesion studies
Scientific Reports. 2018-06-20. Vol. 8, num. 1, p. 9390. DOI : 10.1038/s41598-018-26979-0.High-speed photothermal off-resonance atomic force microscopy reveals assembly routes of centriolar scaffold protein SAS-6
Nature Nanotechnology. 2018-08-13. Vol. 13, num. 8, p. 696-701. DOI : 10.1038/s41565-018-0149-4.
Digitally controlled analog proportional-integral-derivative (PID) controller for high-speed scanning probe microscopy
Review of Scientific Instruments. 2017. Vol. 88, num. 12, p. 123712. DOI : 10.1063/1.5010181.
Components for high-speed atomic force microscopy optimized for low phase-lag
2017. 2017 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM), Munich, Germany, 3-7 July 2017. p. 731-736. DOI : 10.1109/AIM.2017.8014104.
Microfluidic bacterial traps for simultaneous fluorescence and atomic force microscopy
Nano Research. 2017. Vol. 10, num. 11, p. 3896-3908. DOI : 10.1007/s12274-017-1604-5.
Probing the Morphology and Evolving Dynamics of 3D Printed Nanostructures Using High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy
Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces. 2017. Vol. 9, num. 29, p. 24456-24461. DOI : 10.1021/acsami.7b07762.