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Richard Superfine
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 140
Citations - 10762
Richard Superfine is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Carbon nanotube & Mechanotransduction. The author has an hindex of 45, co-authored 139 publications receiving 9900 citations. Previous affiliations of Richard Superfine include University of California, Berkeley & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.
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Bending and buckling of carbon nanotubes under large strain
Michael R. Falvo,G. J. Clary,Russell M. Taylor,Vernon L. Chi,Frederick P. Brooks,Sean Washburn,Richard Superfine +6 more
TL;DR: It is shown that multiwalled carbon nanotubes can be bent repeatedly through large angles using the tip of an atomic force microscope, without undergoing catastrophic failure.
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Vibrational spectroscopy of water at the vapor/water interface.
Q. Du,Q. Du,Richard Superfine,Richard Superfine,Eric Freysz,Eric Freysz,Y. R. Shen,Y. R. Shen +7 more
TL;DR: Using infrared-visible sum-frequency generation, the OH stretch vibrational spectra of water at the vapor/water interface are obtained and it is deduced that more than 20% of the surface water molecules have one free OH projecting into the vapor.
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Mechanical Stiffness Grades Metastatic Potential in Patient Tumor Cells and in Cancer Cell Lines
Vinay Swaminathan,Karthikeyan Mythreye,E. Tim O'Brien,Andrew Berchuck,Gerard C. Blobe,Richard Superfine +5 more
TL;DR: This work applied a magnetic tweezer system to establish that stiffness of patient tumor cells and cancer cell lines inversely correlates with migration and invasion through three-dimensional basement membranes, a correlation known as a power law.
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Isolated nuclei adapt to force and reveal a mechanotransduction pathway in the nucleus.
Christophe Guilluy,Lukas D. Osborne,Laurianne Van Landeghem,Lisa Sharek,Richard Superfine,Rafael Garcia-Mata,Keith Burridge +6 more
TL;DR: The results demonstrate that mechanotransduction is not restricted to cell surface receptors and adhesions but can occur in the nucleus, and applying force on nesprin-1 triggers nuclear stiffening that does not involve chromatin or nuclear actin, but requires an intact nuclear lamina and emerin, a protein of the inner nuclear membrane.
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Nanometre-scale rolling and sliding of carbon nanotubes
Michael R. Falvo,Russell M. Taylor,A. Helser,Vernon L. Chi,Frederick P. Brooks,Sean Washburn,Richard Superfine +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, an atomic force microscopy (AFM) system was used to produce controlled rolling of carbon nanotubes on graphite surfaces using an AFM microscope, which measured the accompanying energy loss and compared this with sliding.