“…In our previous work, a new technique based on simple NEMS cantilever beams, a nanomanipulator, and a SEM, along with a theoretical model was developed to study the interfacial shear stress between SWNTs and gold surfaces with and without alkanethiols [13,14]. These results show that we can vary the shear stress by a factor of 20 by functionalizing a gold surface with different alkanethiols.…”