Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Inertial and viscous flywheel sensing of nanoparticles

  • Georgios Katsikis,
  • Jesse F. Collis,
  • Scott M. Knudsen,
  • Vincent Agache,
  • John E. Sader,
  • Scott R. Manalis

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25266-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Balances for nanoparticles such as resonating fluid-filled cantilevers usually probe only mass through changes in oscillation frequency. Katsikis and Collis et al. tap information from previously ignored rotational motion to simultaneously measure particle mass and volume.