jayweymouthSep 29, 20221 minSalty platinum, anyone?It might seem odd that table salt (NaCl) is such a nice tool for nanotechnology, but it is! It's ideal as a thin insulating layer: it's...
jayweymouthMay 15, 20211 minAdding AFM to an LFM sensorForce is a vector! And when we perform atomic force microscopy, we often select which component of force we want to measure by the...
jayweymouthMar 10, 20211 minSnapshot of a molecular switchScanning probe microscopes – like the scanning tunneling microscope, and the atomic force microscope – give us valuable information about...
jayweymouthNov 7, 20201 minDo you like Coulomb's Law?Understanding the signal we observe with AFM is at the heart of making conclusions about the systems we study. And when we perform...