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Published in final edited form as: Anal Chem. 2010 Mar 1;82(5):1634–1642. doi: 10.1021/ac901955d

Table 1. Surface stress of polymer coated microcantilevers caused by absorption of the gas molecules.

Electrochemical process	Surface stress
Deposition and stripping of Pb (Figure 5) on Au(111) surface³⁷	1.0 N/m
Electrochemical adsorption of ClO₄^- on the gold-coated surface³⁸	1.28 ±0.13 N/m
Redox of Cr(VI) ions³⁹	2.5 N/m per volt
Oxidation of the surface-bound ferrocene⁴⁰,⁴¹	-0.20±0.04 N/m
redox-controllable, bistable [3] rotaxane molecules ⁴²	0.13 N/m