Ozgur Sahin
Professor
Departments of Biological Sciences and Physics
Columbia University
At the molecular level, physical and chemical properties of materials are tightly coupled to the mechanical properties. The potential of mechanics for interacting with matter at the nanoscale has been largely unexplored due to lack of instruments capable of performing mechanical measurements at nanometer length scales.
At the Rowland, the Sahin Lab’s research focused on developing tools and techniques to perform nanomechanical measurements and applying them to problems in materials science, cell biology, and molecular biology.