Electrostatically actuated encased cantilevers

• Benoit X. E. Desbiolles,
• Gabriela Furlan,
• Adam M. Schwartzberg,
• Paul D. Ashby and
• Dominik Ziegler

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2018, 9, 1381–1389, doi:10.3762/bjnano.9.130

• , or vacuum environments. Keywords: amplitude calibration; atomic force microscopy; electrostatic excitation; encased cantilevers; liquid AFM; Introduction Dynamic atomic force microscopy requires excitation of the cantilever oscillation. Most commonly, this is achieved using a dither piezo built

Scaling law to determine peak forces in tapping-mode AFM experiments on finite elastic soft matter systems

• Horacio V. Guzman

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2017, 8, 968–974, doi:10.3762/bjnano.8.98

• operating conditions to image soft matter with high spatial resolution in tapping-mode AFM. Keywords: AFM in liquid; AFM theory; bidimensional elastic models; multivariate regression; neuronal networks; operational AFM parameters; parametrical equation; peak forces; soft matter; Introduction Amplitude

Surface assembly and nanofabrication of 1,1,1-tris(mercaptomethyl)heptadecane on Au(111) studied with time-lapse atomic force microscopy

• Tian Tian,
• Burapol Singhana,
• Lauren E. Englade-Franklin,
• Xianglin Zhai,
• T. Randall Lee and
• Jayne C. Garno

Beilstein J. Nanotechnol. 2014, 5, 26–35, doi:10.3762/bjnano.5.3

• thiols were found to assemble slowly, requiring more than six hours to generate films. A clean gold substrate was first imaged in ethanolic media using liquid AFM. Next, a 0.01 mM solution of multidentate thiol was injected into the liquid cell. As time progressed, molecular-level details of the surface

• –Au bonds to the substrate. Keywords: liquid AFM; multidentate; nanografting; nanolithography; self-assembly; Introduction Multidentate thiol-based adsorbates attach to gold surfaces through multiple bonds that provide enhanced stability to self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) [1][2]. Although detailed

• using protocols of nanoshaving and nanografting [32][33]. Of course, the solvents chosen for AFM liquid experiments should be optically transparent, and must have a relatively slow rate of evaporation (e.g., water, ethanol, butanol, or hexadecane). Surface self-assembly of TMMH. A liquid AFM study was