Imaging beyond the surface region: Probing hidden materials via atomic force microscopy

A Farokh Payam, A Passian - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
Probing material properties at surfaces down to the single-particle scale of atoms and
molecules has been achieved, but high-resolution subsurface imaging remains a …

Atomic-and molecular-resolution map** of solid–liquid interfaces by 3D atomic force microscopy

T Fukuma, R Garcia - ACS nano, 2018 - ACS Publications
Hydration layers are ubiquitous in life and technology. Hence, interfacial aqueous layers
have a central role in a wide range of phenomena from materials science to molecular and …

Advances in atomic force microscopy for probing polymer structure and properties

D Wang, TP Russell - Macromolecules, 2018 - ACS Publications
Over the past 30 years, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has played an important role in
elucidating the structure and properties of polymer surfaces. AFM-based techniques have …

Fast and high-resolution map** of elastic properties of biomolecules and polymers with bimodal AFM

S Benaglia, VG Gisbert, AP Perrino, CA Amo… - Nature protocols, 2018 - nature.com
Fast, high-resolution map** of heterogeneous interfaces with a wide elastic modulus
range is a major goal of atomic force microscopy (AFM). This goal becomes more …

[BOOK][B] Polymer nanotubes nanocomposites: synthesis, properties and applications

V Mittal - 2014 - books.google.com
Since the publication of the successful first edition of the book in 2010, the field has matured
and a large number of advancements have been made to the science of polymer nanotube …

Quantitative map** of magnetic properties at the nanoscale with bimodal AFM

VG Gisbert, CA Amo, M Jaafar, A Asenjo, R Garcia - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We demonstrate that a force microscope operated in a bimodal configuration enables the
map** of magnetic interactions with high quantitative accuracy and high-spatial resolution …

Sub-surface imaging of carbon nanotube–polymer composites using dynamic AFM methods

MJ Cadena, R Misiego, KC Smith, A Avila… - …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
High-resolution sub-surface imaging of carbon nanotube (CNT) networks within polymer
nanocomposites is demonstrated through electrical characterization techniques based on …

Nanoscale subsurface imaging

M Soliman, Y Ding, L Tetard - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
The ability to probe structures and functional properties of complex systems at the
nanoscale, both at their surface and in their volume, has drawn substantial attention in …

Depth map** of metallic nanowire polymer nanocomposites by scanning dielectric microscopy

H Balakrishnan, R Millan-Solsona, M Checa… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Polymer nanocomposite materials based on metallic nanowires are widely investigated as
transparent and flexible electrodes or as stretchable conductors and dielectrics for …

Detection of stiff nanoparticles within cellular structures by contact resonance atomic force microscopy subsurface nanomechanical imaging

M Reggente, D Passeri, L Angeloni, FA Scaramuzzo… - Nanoscale, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Detecting stiff nanoparticles buried in soft biological matrices by atomic force microscopy
(AFM) based techniques represents a new frontier in the field of scanning probe …