Figure 6.

Histograms of the length of force plateaus for the peeling of T4P from (a) mica (434 values), (b) gold (838 values), and (c) polystyrene (155 values) using sharp pyramidal AFM tips. For each histogram, the solid line corresponds to the best fit of the data to a single exponential function. The insets show distributions of the separation values corresponding to the start of the force plateaus (plateau start) for the different surfaces. The lower plots in (a)–(c) show distributions of the plateau force values versus plateau length for force plateau events obtained on the different surfaces.