About the Study

Journal: Nature

Title: “Infrared nanosensors of piconewton to micronewton forces.”

Authors: Natalie Fardian-Melamed^1*, Artiom Skripka^2,3, Benedikt Ursprung¹, Changhwan Lee¹, Thomas P. Darlington¹, Ayelet Teitelboim², Xiao Qi², Maoji Wang⁴, Jordan M. Gerton⁴, Bruce E. Cohen^2,5, Emory M. Chan², P. James Schuck¹

1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Columbia University
2. The Molecular Foundry, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
3. Nanomaterials for Bioimaging Group, Departamento de Física de Materiales, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autόnoma de Madrid
4. Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Utah
5. Division of Molecular Biophysics and Integrated Bioimaging, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, 

Acknowledgments: N.F.-M. gratefully acknowledges support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 893439, the US Department of State Fulbright Scholarship Program, the Zuckerman-CHE STEM Leadership Program, the Israel Scholarship Education Foundation (ISEF) International Fellowship Program, and the Weizmann Institute’s Women’s Postdoctoral Career Development Award. B.U. and P.J.S. acknowledge support by the National Science Foundation under grant no. CHE-2203510. A.S. acknowledges the support from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation program under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 895809 (MONOCLE). Work at the Molecular Foundry was supported by the Office of Science, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, of the US Department of Energy under contract number DE-AC02-05CH11231. X.Q., B.E.C., and E.M.C. were supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) ENVision program under contract HR0011257070, and C.L. and P.J.S. under DARPA ENVision contract HR00112220006. T.P.D. and P.J.S. also acknowledge support for the scan-probe measurements from Programmable Quantum Materials, an Energy Frontier Research Center funded by the US DOE, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences (BES), under award DE-SC0019443. 

The authors declare no financial or other conflicts of interest.

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