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Handbook of functional nanomaterials. Volume 1, Synthesis and modification / Mahmood Aliofkhazraei, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Nanotechnology science and technology series.
- Nanotechnology science and technology, 2331-2378
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Nanostructured materials.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (416 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Publishers, [2014]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- With the wide application of nanotechnology in scientific research as well as in industrial product development, it is urgent to develop appropriate tools for investigating and manipulating molecules, especially macromolecules at the nanoscale level. Different microscopes are typical equipment. Due to the high resolution, being maximally close to samples' original status and the low requirement of sample preparation, atomic force microscopy (AFM) has been applied as a nanotechnology tool since it was invented in 1986. As this equipment utilizes the force between the sample and scanning tip rather than the light signal as used by many other microscopes, samples with different optical properties can be investigated with AFM without limitations. AFM has many modes including contact mode and non-contact mode, which can be applied for achieving different purposes depending on the samples' properties and final purposes. Recent force spectroscopy can measure the interaction forces of the tip-sample, which is a function of distance between the tip and the sample, thus called a force-distance curve. Force spectroscopy can also be conducted with static or dynamic modes, which has been widely applied in many fields, especially in biophysics for measuring mechanical properties of living organisms or cells. This book focuses on the research on AFM principles, modes of operation and limitation and they are discussed with detailed examples in various fields, ranging from inorganic materials in physics to organic materials in food science, biomedical science, chemistry and others.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 14, 2014).
- ISBN:
- 1-62948-365-6
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