title: Hearing what you cannot see and visualizing what you hear: interpreting quartz crystal microbalance data from solvated interfaces.
abstract: Over the last 2 decades, the quartz crystal microbalance (QCM or QCM-D) has emerged as a versatile tool for investigating soft and solvated interfaces between solid surfaces and bulk liquids because it can provide a wealth of information about key structural and functional parameters of these interfaces. In this Feature, we offer QCM users a set of guidelines for interpretation and quantitative analysis of QCM data based on a synthesis of well-established concepts rooted in rheological research of the last century and of new results obtained in the last several years.
authors.affiliation: Biosurfaces Unit, CIC biomaGUNE, Paseo Miramon 182, 20009 Donostia-San Sebastian, Spain. ireviakine@cicbiomagune.es
authors.forename: Ilya
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Reviakine
authors.forename: Diethelm
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Johannsmann
authors.forename: Ralf P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Richter
mesh_terms: D036103:Nanotechnology; D058525:Quartz Crystal Microbalance Techniques; D012997:Solvents / Q000737:chemistry*; D014783:Viscosity
chemical_list: D012997:Solvents