Elisa Riedo is a physicist and researcher known for her contributions in condensed matter physics, nanotechnology and engineering.
Her lab is focused on developing new scanning probe microscopy based methods to study and fabricate materials and solid/liquid interfaces at the nanoscale.
Highlights from her research are the invention of thermochemical nanolithography, the discovery of the exotic viscoelasticity of water at the interface with a solid surface, and the development of new methods to study materials’ elasticity and friction with sub-nm resolution.
Riedo's research is also well-known for its contributions in nanomechanics, in particular for the development of novel atomic force microscopy methods to study the elastic properties of nanomaterials (modulated nanoindentation[8](MoNI) and A-indentation), and the first observation of the exceptional mechanical properties of diamene,[9] single layer diamond, obtained from pressurizing epitaxial two-layer graphene.
In 2013, Riedo was elected Fellow of the American Physical Society for her atomic force microscopy studies of nanoscale friction, liquid structure and nanotube elasticity, and the invention of thermochemical nanolithography.