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A Universal Handle for Single Molecule Force Spectroscopy
- Abstract:
Mechanochemistry has received more and more attention for its potential applications in developing new chemistry and new materials. In all of the theoretical and experimental methods that have been applied to investigate mechanochemistry, single molecule force spectroscopy (SMFS) is the only method that can directly measure the force applied to polymers thus provide quantitative information on mechanochemistry. However, one limitation of SMFS is that the attachment between the tip of atomic force microscope (AFM) and the polymer being studied is usually not strong enough for covalent activation, which makes the experiment time consuming and inhibits the throughput of SMFS in investigation of mechanochemistry. Here we report a handle which has the potential to greatly improve the experiment and to be applied to many different systems.
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