Direct force measurments of receptor - ligand interactions on living cells / Robert H. Eibl -- Imaging chemical groups and molecular recognition sites on live cells using AFM / David Alsteens ... [et al.] -- Application of scanning near-field optical microscopy in life science / Pietro Giuseppe Cuggiardi -- Adhesion and friction properties of polymers at nanoscale: investigation by AFM / Sophie Bistac, Marjorie Schmitt -- Mechanical characterization of materials by micro-indentation and AFM scanning / Gabriella Bolzon ... [et al.] -- Mechanical properties of metallic nanocontacts / G. Rubio-Bollinger ... [et al.] -- Dynamic AFM in liquids: viscous damping and applications to the study of confined liquids / Abdelhamid Maali ... [et al.] -- Microtensile tests using in situ atomic force microscopy / Udo Lang, Jurg Dual -- Scanning tunneling mircoscopy of the Si(111)-7 x 7 surface and adsorbed Ge nanostructures / Haiming Guo ... [et al.]