Book description
This first book to focus on all principles and aspects of AFM in liquid
phase is perfectly structured, making it easy-to-follow for non-AFM
specialists. At the same time, it is an excellent introduction for
researchers wishing to use this important technique for evaluating
biological material and biological applications.
From the contents:
* AFM: Basic concept
* Dynamic modes in liquids
* Force spectroscopy
* Forces in liquids
* Single molecule force spectroscopy
* High resolution imaging of biological material
* Imaging of force-distance curves
* High speed AFM for observing dynamic processes
* Theory and fundamentals
* Combination of AFM with optical methods
* Biological applications
* Electrochemical AFM
* Manipulation and lithography
An optimum balance for chemists, physicists, materials scientists, and
biologists, as well as analytical and medicinal chemists.
Arturo M Baro has spent most of his career at the Universidad
Autonoma of Madrid and has been working in the fi eld of Surface Physics
and Nanoscience. In 1983, he spent one year at the IBM Research Lab in
Zurich where he worked with Professors Rohrer and Binnig, who
discovered STM. He is the author of 160 publications with a citation
index h = 38. In 1985, he founded the company NANOTEC ELECTRONICA, S.
L., which is dedicated to the fabrication and sale of AFM machines. He
has been honored with the research prizes from the Humboldt
Foundation.
Ronald G. Reifenberger has been on the faculty at Purdue University, W.
Lafayette, USA since 1978. Following his PhD in physics from the
University of Chicago, he was a post-doctoral fellow at the University
of Toronto, Canada. His nanophysics laboratory at Purdue uses
innovative experimental techniques to examine nanoscale properties of
matter. His research focus since 1985 has been primarily scanning probe
microscopy. Reifenberger is currently the director of the Kevin G. Hall
Nanometrology Laboratory in the Birck Nanotechnology Center
at Purdue.
