Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a way to investigate the surface features of some materials. It works by “feeling” or “touching” the surface with an extremely small probe. This provides a ...

Scientists propose to use self-assembled Ru LPH molecular coatings for next-generation hard disk drives, but there are major ...

Quantum physics just took a leap from theory to reality! Empa researchers have, for the first time, successfully built a long ...

BioAFM is seeing increasingly widespread use in biomedical and biological studies due to its extremely high resolution and its capacity to perform experiments with live cells in liquid and under ...

When light interacts with metallic nanostructures, it instantaneously generates plasmonic hot carriers, which serve as key ...

Without the need for a current, such an "atomic force microscope" (AFM) could reveal the structure of nonconductive materials such as proteins, organelles, and whole cells. Immediately thereafter, the ...

Chinese researchers are exploring the potential of organic materials to develop a new type of hard drive that could ...

Conductive atomic force microscopy (C-AFM) is a powerful nanoscale characterization technique that combines the high-resolution imaging capabilities of atomic force microscopy (AFM) with the ability ...

Fast-scanning atomic force microscopy imaging of the molecule at two different time points shows positional shifts along the ...

Foster and Takeshi Fukuma at the Nano Life Science Institute (WPI-NanoLSI) at Kanazawa University in Japan have successfully ...

The atomic force microscope (AFM) has become one of the foremost tools for imaging and measuring materials and cells on the nanoscale. Revealing sample details at the atomic level, with resolution ...