J. J. Ruz

TL;DR: This review provides insight into the mechanical phenomena that occur in suspended mechanical structures when either biological adsorption or interactions take place on their surface: mass, surface stress, effective Young's modulus and viscoelasticity.

TL;DR: It is shown that a sandwich assay that combines mechanical and optoplasmonic transduction can detect cancer biomarkers in serum at ultralow concentrations, including the carcinoembryonic antigen and the prostate specific antigen.

TL;DR: By using nanomechanical resonators, heavier analytes can be identified by their mass and stiffness by demonstrating the enormous potential of this technology for identification of large biological complexes near their native conformation.

TL;DR: This work harnessed a particular regime in the physics of coupled mechanical resonators to directly measure these low-frequency mechanical resonances of a single bacterium, demonstrating that ultrahigh frequency optomechanical resonators can be used for vibrational spectrometry with the unique capability to obtain information on single biological entities.

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the properties of biomolecular adsorption on the surface of suspended mechanical structures is presented. But the authors focus on the physical properties of the adsorbed structures and not on the biological interactions that take place on their surface.