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 AFM Tips and Tricks

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Getting to know your Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
Getting to know your Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
5 Top Tips for Sample Preparation in AFM Imaging
5 Top Tips for Sample Preparation in AFM Imaging
4 signs you need to shop around for your AFM probes
4 signs you need to shop around for your AFM probes
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4 Common Imaging Problems (and how to fix them)
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The confusing world of TLAs in AFM…
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5 more top tips for effective AFM imaging: the intermediate guide
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(New Year's) resolution of an AFM probe
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From one AFM user to another...
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(Nearly) Everything you ever wanted to know about AFM but were afraid to ask…
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5 top tips for effective AFM imaging: a beginners guide
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A pedant’s (Christmas) guide to AFM probe terminology

NuNano Interviews

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NuNano 2025 Celebration of Women in AFM
NuNano 2025 Celebration of Women in AFM
What does 2025 have in store for AFM?
What does 2025 have in store for AFM?
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NuNano Interviews: Dr Peter Nirmalraj – Working at the bleeding edge of AFM
Celebrating our scientific sisters-in-arms in AFM (Women in STEM series)
Celebrating our scientific sisters-in-arms in AFM (Women in STEM series)
AFM Technicians & Lab Managers - the AFM Superheroes
AFM Technicians & Lab Managers - the AFM Superheroes
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NuNano Interviews: Professor Malgorzata Lekka on 30 years of AFM, working on the border of physics, biology and medicine (Women in STEM series)
Celebrating Women in AFM 2023 (Women in STEM series)
Celebrating Women in AFM 2023 (Women in STEM series)
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NuNano Interviews: Liisa Lutter, Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLA (Women in STEM series)
NuNano Interviews: Dr Yu Kyoung Ryu, Postdoctoral Researcher in the ISOM-Graphene group (Women in STEM series)
NuNano Interviews: Dr Yu Kyoung Ryu, Postdoctoral Researcher in the ISOM-Graphene group (Women in STEM series)
Why do we need to highlight women in AFM? (Women in STEM series)
Why do we need to highlight women in AFM? (Women in STEM series)
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One year on - life after NuNano and working back in academia!
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NuNano Interviews: Professor Jim Gimzweski on AFM in 3D printing, the need for greater vision and development in AFM manufacturing and art and science as the new old ‘in-thing’…
Why are we celebrating women in AFM? (Women in STEM series)
Why are we celebrating women in AFM? (Women in STEM series)
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NuNano Interviews: Laurent Bozec on AFM in dentistry, oral biology and sliding door moments in his career
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NuNano Interviews: Dr Alice Pyne, University of Sheffield (Women in STEM series)
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NuNano Interviews: Becky Sage, CEO of Interactive Scientific (Women in STEM series)
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Book review: Nano Comes to Life by Sonia Contera
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NuNano Interviews: Hannah Levene, NuNano Process Engineer (Women in STEM series)
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NuNano Interviews: Professor Daniel Robert, University of Bristol
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NuNano Interviews: Professor Mervyn Miles, University of Bristol

News from James

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4 things I’d do differently if I was starting the business today (and 5 things I’d do the same!)
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Top 10 Most Popular NuNano AFM blog posts
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2023 MMC: The Inside View from NuNano’s Applications Engineer Jamie Goodchild
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The AFM Community Resources ‘One-Stop Shop’
Why NuNano ‘refreshingly’ inspects the parts of probes other manufacturers do not…
Why NuNano ‘refreshingly’ inspects the parts of probes other manufacturers do not…
The next generation of AFM scientists: applying to PhDs
The next generation of AFM scientists: applying to PhDs
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A decade of NuNano
4 signs you need to shop around for your AFM probes
4 signs you need to shop around for your AFM probes
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Is remote AFM a solution in the new COVID-19 world of socially distanced science?
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How does a Manufacturing SME best respond to a global pandemic?
How AFMers are working from home
How AFMers are working from home
Welcome to The City of Bristol’s First Commercial Cleanroom!
Welcome to The City of Bristol’s First Commercial Cleanroom!
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Five PhD skills that prepare you for a science start-up
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What’s it really like inside the NuNano cleanroom?
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Season's Greetings: 3 things you need to know when setting up a scientific company
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Building a world class team: What NuNano can learn from Le Tour
NuNano joins new Bristol hub for science start-ups
Why growing your start-up business inside an incubator is a good idea – an outsider-insider perspective
Spring cleaning at NuNano!
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Cadence, camaraderie and conquering mountains on a bicycle
Welcome to NuNano!
Welcome to NuNano!

AFM Probe Knowhow

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NuNano’s Pick of AFM Papers 2024
NuNano’s Pick of AFM Papers 2024
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Atomic Force Microscopy and the summer of sports/Olympics summer special
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NuNano Top Paper Picks of 2023
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Top 10 Most Popular NuNano AFM blog posts
Why NuNano ‘refreshingly’ inspects the parts of probes other manufacturers do not…
Why NuNano ‘refreshingly’ inspects the parts of probes other manufacturers do not…
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8 Interesting AFM Papers from Around the Globe
Getting to know your Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
Getting to know your Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
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AFM, semiconductor fabrication and the cost of poor quality probes
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4 Myths about purchasing AFM Probes
Nu Decade, Nu Probes!
Case Study: Bespoke Development of a new type of Cantilever for use in Biofilm Analysis
Case Study: Bespoke Development of a new type of Cantilever for use in Biofilm Analysis
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What I’ve learned from visiting customers….
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What’s it really like inside the NuNano cleanroom?
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What AFM probe type do you need most?
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New Year, New Product
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5 top tips for effective AFM imaging: a beginners guide
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If Carlsberg made AFM probes...
To boldly sense what no probes have sensed before...
To boldly sense what no probes have sensed before...
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Why hoarding is good scientific practice...
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Our standard AC mode probes just got shinier!

AFM Conferences

AFM Research

Featured
NuNano 2025 Celebration of Women in AFM
NuNano 2025 Celebration of Women in AFM
NuNano’s Pick of AFM Papers 2024
NuNano’s Pick of AFM Papers 2024
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NuNano Interviews: Dr Peter Nirmalraj – Working at the bleeding edge of AFM
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Atomic Force Microscopy and the summer of sports/Olympics summer special
Celebrating our scientific sisters-in-arms in AFM (Women in STEM series)
Celebrating our scientific sisters-in-arms in AFM (Women in STEM series)
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NuNano Top Paper Picks of 2023
AFM Technicians & Lab Managers - the AFM Superheroes
AFM Technicians & Lab Managers - the AFM Superheroes
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Case Study: NuNano probes and the hunt for the next generation nanoscale electronic materials
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Top 10 Most Popular NuNano AFM blog posts
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NuNano Interviews: Professor Malgorzata Lekka on 30 years of AFM, working on the border of physics, biology and medicine (Women in STEM series)
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How NuNano’s AFM Probe fabrication expertise helped develop a new cancer detection device
12 Brilliant Books on Atomic Force Microscopy
12 Brilliant Books on Atomic Force Microscopy
Celebrating Women in AFM 2023 (Women in STEM series)
Celebrating Women in AFM 2023 (Women in STEM series)
Why NuNano ‘refreshingly’ inspects the parts of probes other manufacturers do not…
Why NuNano ‘refreshingly’ inspects the parts of probes other manufacturers do not…
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8 Interesting AFM Papers from Around the Globe
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NuNano Interviews: Liisa Lutter, Postdoctoral Researcher at UCLA (Women in STEM series)
Getting to know your Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
Getting to know your Atomic Force Microscope (AFM)
The Collaborative Potential of Github for AFM
The Collaborative Potential of Github for AFM
Top 5 Chinese AFM Research Papers
Top 5 Chinese AFM Research Papers
Top 7 AFM Papers You'll Want to Read This Christmas
Top 7 AFM Papers You'll Want to Read This Christmas
Why do we need to highlight women in AFM? (Women in STEM series)
Why do we need to highlight women in AFM? (Women in STEM series)
Around the world with AFM in 5 Papers
Around the world with AFM in 5 Papers
Why are we celebrating women in AFM? (Women in STEM series)
Why are we celebrating women in AFM? (Women in STEM series)
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2020 Review: Top 5 AFM related papers in 2020
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NuNano Interviews: Dr Alice Pyne, University of Sheffield (Women in STEM series)
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Do biologists and physicists approach AFM differently?
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The multidisciplinary nature of AFM
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What were the top four talks at ISPM 2018? (As recommended by Mervyn Miles….)
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(Nearly) Everything you ever wanted to know about AFM but were afraid to ask…
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What AFM probe type do you need most?

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