#382 new term: quartz crystal microbalance

[Lukasz Salwinski]

A method that monitors ligand binding by measuring the change in frequency of a quartz crystal resonator resulting from the addition or removal of a small mass of a ligand specifically binding at the surface of the resonator.

This would ba a child of MI:0968(biosensor)

Rather detailed description of the method is available through wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartz_crystal_microbalance

The term is needed to annotate PMID:26083750

[Pablo Porras]

Created term 'quartz crystal microbalance' (MI:2196), using the definition proposed above and cross-referencing to PMID:23504432. It is a child of 'biosensor'.

Pablo.