Recent Publications
| Microindentation for in vivo Measurement of Bone Tissue Mechanical Properties in Humans |
| Adolfo Diez-Perez, Roberto G�erri, Xavier Nogues, Enric C�ceres, Maria Jesus Pe�a, Leonardo Mellibovsky, Connor Randall, Daniel Bridges, James C. Weaver, Alexander Proctor, Davis Brimer, Kurt J. Koester, Robert O. Ritchie, Paul K. Hansma Journal of Bone and Mineral Research. Vol 25 No 8. (2010)  |
| Reference Point Indentation (RPI) Instrument: Laboratory and Clinical Case-Control Studies (ORS Poster) |
| Hansma, P K; Randall, C; Bridges, D B; Weaver, J; Guerri, R C; Nogues, X; Diez-Perez A Orthopedic Research Society Poster 2010 |
| Bone Diagnostic Instrument III |
| Connor Randall, Phillip Mathews, Eugene Yurtsev, Nadder Sahar, David Kohn, and Paul Hansma Review of Scientific Instruments 80, 065108 (2009) |
| Tissue Diagnostic Instrument |
| Paul Hansma, Hongmei Yu, David Schultz, Azucena Rodriguez, Eugene A. Yurtsev, Jessica Orr, Simon Tang, Jon Miller, Joseph Wallace, Frank Zok, Cheng Li, Richard Souza, Alexander Proctor, Davis Brimer, Xavier Nogues-Solan, Leonardo Mellbovsky, M. Jesus Pe�a, Oriol Diez-Ferrer, Phillip Mathews, Connor Randall, Alfred Kuo, Carol Chen, Mathilde Peters, David Kohn, Jenni Buckley, Xiaojuan Li, Lisa Pruitt, Adolfo Diez-Perez, Tamara Alliston, Valerie Weaver, and Jeffrey Lotz Review of Scientific Instruments 80, 054303 (2009) |
| The bone diagnostic instrument II: Indentation distance increase |
| Paul Hansma, Patricia Turner, Barney Drake, Eugene Yurtsev, Alexander Proctor, Phillip Mathews, Jason Lelujian, Connor Randall, Jonathan Adams, Ralf Jungmann, Federico Garza-de-Leon, Georg Fantner, Haykaz Mkrtchyan, Michael Pontin, Aaron Weaver, Morton B. Brown, Nadder Sahar, Ricardo Rossello, and David Kohn Review of Scientific Instruments 79, 064303 (2008) |
| Bone Diagnostic Instrument |
| Paul K. Hansma, Patricia J. Turner, Georg E. Fantner Review of Scientific Instruments 77, 075105 (2006) |
| Sacrificial Bonds and Hidden Length: Unraveling Molecular Mesostructures in Tough Materials |
| Georg E. Fantner, Emin Oroudjev, Georg Schitter, Laura S. Golde, Philipp Thurner, Marquesa M. Finch, Patricia Turner, Thomas Gutsmann, Daniel E. Morse, Helen Hansma, Paul K. Hansma. Biophysical Journal, 90 (4): 1411. (2006) |
| Hierarchical interconnections in the nano-composite material Bone: Fibrillar Cross-Links resist fracture on several length scales |
| Georg E. Fantner, Olexandr Rabinovych, Georg Schitter, Philipp Thurner, Johannes H. Kindt, Marquesa M. Finch, James C. Weaver, Laura S. Golde, Daniel E. Morse, Everett A Lipman, Ivo W. Rangelow, Paul K Hansma Comp. Sci. Tech. (advance publication online, December 2005) |
| Components for High Speed Atomic Force Microscopy |
| Georg E Fantner, Georg Schitter, Johannes H. Kindt, Tzvetan Ivanov, Katarina Ivanova, Rohan Patel, Niels Holten-Andersen, Jonathan Adams, Philipp J. Thurner, Ivo W. Rangelow and Paul K. Hansma Accepted, Ultramicroscopy, 2006 |
| High-Speed Photography of the Development of Microdamage in Trabecular Bone During Compression |
| Philipp J. Thurner, Blake Erickson, Zachary Schriock, John Langan, Jeff Scott, Maria Zhao, James C. Weaver, Georg E. Fantner, Patricia Turner, Johannes H. Kindt, Georg Schitter, Daniel E. Morse, Paul K. Hansma Accepted to Journal of Materials Research, January 2006 |
| High Speed Photography of Compressed Human Trabecular Bone Correlates Whitening to Microscopic Damage |
| P. Thurner, B. Erickson, Z. Schriock, J.C. Weaver, G.E. Fantner, G. Schitter, J.H. Kindt, P. Turner, D.E. Morse, P.K. Hansma Submitted to Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 1/11/06 |
| Design and Modeling of a High-Speed Scanner for Atomic Force Microscopy |
| Georg Schitter, Karl J. �str�m, Barry DeMartini, Georg E. Fantner, Kimberly Turner, Philipp J. Thurner, and Paul K. Hansma Accepted, American Control Conference 2006 |
| Sacrificial bonds in the interfibrillar matrix of bone |
| Paul K. Hansma, Georg E. Fantner, Johannes H. Kindt, Philipp J. Thurner, Georg Schitter, Patricia J. Turner, Simcha F. Udwin, Marquesa M. Finch J Musculoskelet Neuronal Interact 2005; 5(4):313-315 |
| A new technique for imaging Mineralized Fibrils on Bovine Trabecular Bone Fracture Surfaces by Atomic Force Microscopy |
| Johannes H. Kindt, Georg E. Fantner, Philipp J. Thurner, Georg Schitter, Paul K. Hansma Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 874, L5.12.1 |
| Sacrificial Bonds in Polymer Brushes from Rat Tail Tendon Functioning as Nanoscale Velcro |
| Thomas Gutsmann, Tue Hassenkam, Jacqueline A. Cutroni, and Paul K. Hansma Biophysical Journal, 89 (1): 536. (2005) |
| High-Speed Photography of Human Trabecular Bone during Compression |
| Philipp J. Thurner, Blake Erickson, Zachary Schriock, John Langan, Jeff Scott, Maria Zhao, Georg E. Fantner, Patricia Turner, Johannes H. Kindt, Georg Schitter, Paul K. Hansma Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. Vol. 874 (2005), L1.2.1 |
| On recent developments for high-speed atomic force microscopy |
| Georg Schitter, Georg E. Fantner, Johannes H. Kindt, Philipp J. Thurner, Paul K. Hansma Conference paper, IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, Monterey, CA, July 2005 |
| Sacrificial bonds and hidden length dissipate energy as mineralized fibrils separate during bone fracture |
| Georg E. Fantner, Tue Hassenkam, Johannes H. Kindt, James C. Weaver, Henrik Birkedal, Jacqueline A. Cutroni, Geraldo A.G. Cidade, Galen D. Stucky, Daniel E. Morse, Paul K. Hansma Nature Materials, (August 2005) Vol 4 (8): 612-616 |
| Novel Techniques for High-Resolution Functional Imaging of Trabecular Bone |
| Philipp Thurner, Georg E. Fantner, Johannes Kindt, Manuela Venturoni, Patricia Turner, Peter Wyss, Urs Sennhauser, Ralph Muller, Paul Hansma Medical Imaging 2005: Physics of Medical Imaging. Edited by Flynn, Michael J. Proceedings of the SPIE, Volume 5746, pp. 515-526 (2005) |
| A Review of Atomic Force Microscopy in Parkinson’s Research |
| Robert D. Field and Paul K Hansma Microscopy and Analysis Issue 65, (March 2004) |
| Data Acquisition System for High Speed Atomic Force Microscopy |
| Georg E. Fantner, Paul Hegarty, Johannes H. Kindt, Georg Schitter, Geraldo A.G. Cidade, and Paul K. Hansma Review of Scientific Instruments 76, 026118 (2005) |
| Rigid design of fast scanning probe microscopes using finite element analysis |
| J.H. Kindt, G.E. Fantner, J.A. Cutroni, P.K. Hansma Ultramicroscopy 100 (August 2004) 259�265 |
| Automated wafer-scale fabrication of electron beam deposited tips for atomic force microscopes using pattern recognition |
| Johannes H. Kindt, Georg E. Fantner, James B. Thompson, and Paul K. Hansma Nanotechnology (July 2004) 15 1131-1134 |
| Influence of the Degradation of the Organic Matrix on the Microscopic Fracture Behavior of Trabecular Bone |
| Georg E. Fantner, Henrik Birkedal, Johannes H. Kindt, Tue Hassenkam, Bonnie L. Bosma, Jacquelin A. Cutroni, James C. Weaver, Lukmaan Bawazer, Marquesa M. Finch, Geraldo A.G. Cidade, Daniel E. Morse, Galen D. Stucky, Paul K. Hansma Bone (November 2004), Vol. 35 (5): 1013-1022 |
| Exploring Molecular and Mechanical Gradients in Structural Bioscaffolds |
| J. Herbert Waite, Helga C. Lichtenegger, Galen D. Stucky, and Paul K. Hansma Biochemistry (June 2004) 22;43(24):7653-62. |
| Giant Bent-Core Mesogens in the Thread Forming Process of Marine Mussels |
| Tue Hassenkam, Thomas Gutsmann, Paul Hansma,Jason Sagert, and J. Herbert Waite Biomacromolecules (June 2004) Vol. 5 (4): 1351-1355 |
| Force Spectroscopy of Collagen Fibers to Investigate Their Mechanical Properties and Structural Organization |
| Thomas Gutsmann, Georg E. Fantner, Johannes H. Kindt, Manuela Venturoni, Signe Danielsen, and Paul K. Hansma Biophysics Journal (May 2004) Vol. 86 1-8 |
| High Resolution AFM Imaging of Intact and Fractured Trabecular Bone |
| T. Hassenkam, G.E. Fantner, J.A. Cutroni, J.C. Weaver, D.E. Morse, P.K. Hansma Bone (July 2004), Vol. 35 (1): 4-10 |
| Atomic force microscopy study of living diatoms in ambient conditions |
| I.C. Gebeshuber, J.H. Kindt, J.B. Thompson, Y. Del Amo, H. Stachelberger, M.A. Brzezinski, G.D. Stucky, D.E. Morse & P.K. Hansma Journal of Microscopy (December 2003) Vol. 212 (3): 292-299 Please note that we published a corrigendum on this paper: |
| New Atomic Force Microscopes (AFM) for the Study of Enzymatic Properties and Processes |
| Johannes H. Kindt, Jackie A. Cutroni, Thomas Gutsmann, and Paul K. Hansma AAPPS Bulletin (April 2003), Vol. 13 (2): 8-11. |
| Evidence that Collagen Fibrils in Tendons Are Inhomogeneously Structured in a Tubelike Manner |
| Thomas Gutsmann, Georg E. Fantner, Manuela Venturoni, Axel Ekani-Nkodo, James B. Thompson, Johannes H. Kindt, Daniel E. Morse, Deborah Fygenson, and Paul K. Hansma Biophysical Journal (April 2003), Vol. 84: 2593-2598. |
| Investigations into the polymorphism of rat tail tendon fibrils using atomic force microscopy |
| Manuela Venturoni, Thomas Gutsmann, Georg E. Fantner, Johannes H. Kindt, and Paul K. Hansma Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications (February 2003), 303: 508-513. |
| Molecular nanosprings in spider capture-silk threads |
| Nathan Becker, Emin Oroudjev, Stephanie Mutz, Jason Cleveland, Paul Hansma, Cheryl Hayashi, Dmitrii Makarov, and Helen Hansma Nature Materials (April 2003), Vol. 2: 278-283. |
| Nanostructural Features of Demosponge Biosilica |
| Lia I. Pietrasanta, James C. Weaver, Niklas Hedin, Brad F. Chmelka, Galen D. Stucky, Daniel E. Morse, and Paul K. Hansma Journal of Structural Biology (2003) 144, 271-281. |
| Atomic force microscope detector drift compensation by correlation of similar traces acquired at different setpoints |
| Johannes H. Kindt, James B. Thompson, Mario B. Viani, and Paul K. Hansma Review of Scientific Instruments (June 2002) Vol. 73 (6): 2305-2307 |
| The Backbone Conformational Entropy of Protein Folding: Experimental Measures from Atomic Force Microscopy |
| James B. Thompson, Helen G. Hansma, Paul K. Hansma, and Kevin W. Plaxco Journal of Molecular Biology(September 20, 2002); 322 (3): 645-652. |
| Bone Indentation Recovery Time Correlates with Bond Reforming Time |
| James B. Thompson, Johannes H. Kindt, Barney Drake, Helen G. Hansma, Daniel E. Morse, and Paul K. Hansma Nature (December 13, 2001) Vol. 414:773-775 |
| Kinetic Monte Carlo simulation of titin unfolding |
| Dmitrii E. Makarov, Paul K. Hansma, and Horia Metiu Journal of Chemical Physics (June 2001) Vol. 114 (21):9663-9673 |
| Assessing the quality of scanning probe microscope designs |
| James B. Thompson, Barney Drake, Johannes H. Kindt, Jessica Hoskins, and Paul K. Hansma Nanotechnology (August 2001) Vol. 12: 394-397 |
| Micromechanical and structural properties of a pennate diatom investigated by atomic force microscopy |
| N. Almqvist, Y. Delamo, B.L. Smith, N.H. Thomson, A. Bartholdson, R. Lal, M. Brzezinski, and Paul K. Hansma Journal of Microscopy (June 2001) Vol. 202 (3): 518-531 |
| Angular Fourier Mapping: Highlighting lattice structures without destroying original data |
| Johannes H. Kindt, James B. Thompson, George T. Paloczi, Martina Michenfelder, Bettye L. Smith, Galen Stucky, Daniel E. Morse, and Paul K. Hansma Materials Research Society Symposium (2000) Vol. 620: M4.2.1-M4.2.7 |
| Stepwise unfolding of titin under force-clamp atomic force microscopy |
| Andres F. Oberhauser, Paul K. Hansma, Mariano Carrion-Vazquez, and Julio M. Fernandez PNAS (January 2001), Vol. 98 (2): 468-472 |
| Recent Highlights from Atomic Force Microscopy of DNA |
| Helen G. Hansma, Lia I. Pietrasanta, Roxana Golan, John C. Stiko, Mario Viani, George Paloczi, Bettye L. Smith, Douglas Thrower, and Paul K. Hansma Journal of Biomolecular Structure & Dynamics (1999), Conversation 11, Issue #1 |
| Simulation of an Atomic Force Microscope Imaging a Moving Protein |
| S. Kasas, N. H. Thomson, T.E. Schaffer, G. Dietler, S. Catsicas and P.K. Hansma Probe Microscopy (2000) Vol. 2: 37-44 |
| Fluorescent apparent quantum yields for excited molecules near dielectric interfaces |
| Q.Q. Shu and P.K. Hansma Thin Solid Films (2001) 384: 76-84 |
| Direct Observation of the Transition from Calcite to Aragonite Growth as Induced by Abalone Shell Proteins |
| James B. Thompson, George T. Paloczi, Johannes H. Kindt, Martina Michenfelder, Bettye L. Smith, Galen Stucky, Daniel E. Morse, and Paul K. Hansma Biophysical Journal (December 2000) Vol. 79: 3307-3312 |
| Probing protein-protein interactions in real time |
| Mario B. Viani, Lia I. Pietrasanta, James B. Thompson, Ami Chand, Ilse C. Gebeshuber, Johannes H. Kindt, Michael Richter, Helen G. Hansma and Paul K. Hansma Nature Structural Biology (August 2000) Vol. 7 (8): 644-647 |