Imaging modes of atomic force microscopy for application in molecular and cell biology

YF Dufrêne, T Ando, R Garcia, D Alsteens… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a powerful, multifunctional imaging platform that allows
biological samples, from single molecules to living cells, to be visualized and manipulated …

Synthesis, assembly, and applications of hybrid nanostructures for biosensing

S Zhang, R Geryak, J Geldmeier, S Kim… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The robust, sensitive, and selective detection of targeted biomolecules in their native
environment by prospective nanostructures holds much promise for real-time, accurate, and …

Correlative super-resolution microscopy: new dimensions and new opportunities

M Hauser, M Wojcik, D Kim, M Mahmoudi, W Li… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Correlative microscopy, the integration of two or more microscopy techniques performed on
the same sample, produces results that emphasize the strengths of each technique while …

The 2018 correlative microscopy techniques roadmap

T Ando, SP Bhamidimarri, N Brending… - Journal of physics D …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Developments in microscopy have been instrumental to progress in the life sciences, and
many new techniques have been introduced and led to new discoveries throughout the last …

A normal-stressed electromagnetic-driven stiffness-tunable nanopositioner

X Wang, L Li, Y Meng, L Tan… - IEEE Transactions …, 2024 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
High-bandwidth and long-range nanoprecision motion is crucially required by many
advanced instruments and robotic systems, which rely on the nanopositioners. However …

Recent advances in AFM-based biological characterization and applications at multiple levels

W Liang, H Shi, X Yang, J Wang, W Yang, H Zhang… - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has found a wide range of bio-applications in the past few
decades due to its ability to measure biological samples in natural environments at a high …

Atomic force microscopy: From red blood cells to immunohaematology

N Yeow, RF Tabor, G Garnier - Advances in colloid and interface science, 2017 - Elsevier
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) offers complementary imaging modes that can provide
morphological and structural details of red blood cells (RBCs), and characterize interactions …

Microsphere-based super-resolution scanning optical microscope

G Huszka, H Yang, MAM Gijs - Optics express, 2017 - opg.optica.org
High-refractive index dielectric microspheres positioned within the field of view of a
microscope objective in a dielectric medium can focus the light into a so-called photonic …

High-speed atomic force microscopy in ultra-precision surface machining and measurement: challenges, solutions and opportunities

C Yang, CQ Dang, WL Zhu, BF Ju - Surface Science and Technology, 2023 - Springer
The atomic force microscope (AFM) possesses a unique capability for three-dimensional,
high-resolution imaging down to the atomic level. It operates without the needs of additional …

How did correlative atomic force microscopy and super-resolution microscopy evolve in the quest for unravelling enigmas in biology?

A Miranda, AI Gómez-Varela, A Stylianou, LM Hirvonen… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
With the invention of the Atomic Force Microscope (AFM) in 1986 and the subsequent
developments in liquid imaging and cellular imaging it became possible to study the …