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SUBMITTER: Schmid S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3573335 | biostudies-literature | 2013
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Schmid Silvan S Kurek Maksymilian M Adolphsen Jens Q JQ Boisen Anja A
Scientific reports 20130101
Nanomechanical resonators have an unprecedented mass sensitivity sufficient to detect single molecules, viruses or nanoparticles. The challenge with nanomechanical mass sensors is the direction of nano-sized samples onto the resonator. In this work we present an efficient inertial sampling technique and gravimetric detection of airborne nanoparticles with a nanomechanical resonant filter-fiber. By increasing the nanoparticle momentum the dominant collection mechanism changes from diffusion to mo ...[more]