Editorial

The 10th International Workshop on Nanomechanical Sensing (NMC 2013) was held between the 1st and 3rd May 2013 at Stanford University in California.The meeting provided an opportunity for engineers from the diverse worlds of academia, industry and research institutions to share the latest developments in the field.The scope of the meeting included chemical sensing, biosensing, scanning probes and metrologies, optomechanics, nanomechanics, and resonant sensing.To build on this success, Micro & Nano Letters presents five selected papers from NMC 2013.The majority of these papers present research into the different applications of microcantilevers, from organic compound sensing to the effects of photothermal excitation, while microfluidic techniques make up the rest.We feel that these papers accurately represent these growing fields by showing how much can be achieved using these emerging technologies.