ABSTRACT
One of the first meanings of dynamic force spectroscopy (DFS) refers to analyzing the dynamic interaction of the scanning force microscope tip with the sample surface. To our knowledge, this expression first appeared in the literature from the group of Harald Fuchs (Anczykowski et al. 1996) followed by a dissertation, Kraftspectroscopie an einzelnen Moleku¨len of Matthias Rief, in Munich on 1997. Afterward, the term was reused by the group of Evan Evans (Evans & Ritchie, 1997; Merkel et al. 1999) to probe the complex relation between force-lifetime and chemistry in single molecular bonds. The first review on the topic was published in 2000 (Janshoff et al. 2000) and the acronym DFS appeared in 2001 (Evans, 2001). Now, more than 100 publications directly refer to DFS in their title.
