Citation: GHOSH, S.K., OSTANIN, V.P. and SESHIA, A.A., 2013. Studying adsorbent dynamics on a quartz crystal resonator using its nonlinear electrical response. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical, 176, Additional Information:• This is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical.Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be re- The graphs also present a signature of the surface-particle interaction and could be used to estimate the interaction energy profile. Interestingly, the insights gained from the model help to explain some of the experimental observations with physisorbed streptavidin-coated polystyrene microbeads on quartz resonators reasonably well.