Nanoindentation methods to measure viscoelastic properties of single cells using sharp, flat, and buckling tips inside ESEM

• Main Authors: Ahmad, Mohd. Ridzuan, Nakajima, M., Kojima, S., Homma, M., Fukuda, T.
• Format: Article
• Published: IEEE Computational Intelligence Society 2010
• Subjects: TK Electrical engineering. Electronics Nuclear engineering
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/26260/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TNB.2009.2034849

In this paper, methods to measure viscoelastic properties of time-dependent materials are proposed using sharp, flat, and buckling tips inside an environmental SEM. Single W303 yeast cells were employed in this study. Each of the tips was used to indent single cells in a nanoindentation test. Three...