Acknowledgments

Our work is currently supported by:


Award GM65354, "Single-molecule pullers with improved force resolution and speed" The aim of this four-year NIH R01 project is to improve the performance and sensitivity of Atomic Force Microscopes specialized for single-molecule force spectroscopy.



The NASA University Research, Engineering and Technology Institute on Bio-inspired Materials, Award No. NCC-1-02037 - the Paul Hansma Group's particular project in this multi-university collaboration is titled: "Synthetic Self-Healing Structural Materials". The Biologically Inspired Materials Institute (BIMat) was established by NASA under the University Research, Engineering and Technology Institute (URETI) program in August 2002, after competing proposals from researchers around the country. The principal goal for BIMat researchers is to develop bio-nanotechnology materials and structures for aerospace vehicles. The team combines the talents from five of the nation's leading research universities and institutions - UCSB, Princeton, the National Institute of Aerospace, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Northwestern University - to advance biomolecular and biomimetic materials design, synthesis, and processing. Please visit www.bimat.org for more information.



Research Agreement #SB030071, ""Moving Cantilever Microscope".