In case you needed any more AFM-based summer reading material, we thought we’d share with you our top ten most read blog posts from the past year.
4 Common Imaging Problems (and how to fix them)
Our most popular blog of the year focused on helping fix common AFM imaging problems. This is the blog for you if you’re experiencing any of the following AFM imaging issues: (i) Unexpected patterns in images; (ii) Difficulty imaging vertical structures and/or deep trenches; (iii) Repetitive lines appearing across the image; or (iv) Streaks on your images.
12 Brilliant Books on Atomic Force Microscopy
Our second most popular blog of the year was great fun to compile as we asked YOU our AFM Community to contribute your recommendations. And it transpires the age of the book is not over – long live the book! This list covers some classic ‘must have’ AFM texts as well as highlights the way in which the instrument is being used across an increasingly wide and varied range of fields.
Celebrating Women in AFM 2023 (Women in STEM series)
Don’t we all just love to hear about awesome scientists making science happen? It’s little surprise then that our 2023 list of brilliant women working in AFM made it to our top ten list of blogs. If you’d like to hear more about the work of Samia Said, Andra Dumitru, Cécile Formosa-Dague, Alyssa Miller, Irit Rosenhek-Goldian, Nancy Forde, Kerstin Neuhaus, Elisa Riedo, Ebru Cihan and Fouzia Bano, this one is for you.
5 Top Tips for Sample Preparation in AFM Imaging
Sample prep is probably one of the trickiest aspects of working with AFM. In this blog our AFM Application Engineer Jamie shares his top tips from substrate choices to staying on top of the latest literature.
NuNano Interviews: Professor Malgorzata Lekka on 30 years of AFM, working on the border of physics, biology and medicine (Women in STEM series)
One of our favourites from this year, it’s brilliant to see that our piece on the ground-breaking work of Professor Malgorzata Lekka also struck a chord with you too. 30 years ago Malgorzata’s use of AFM revolutionised our understanding on the mechanics of cancer cells. Since then she has dedicated her career to working at the intersection of AFM and disease.
5 AFM Conferences You May Or May Not Have Heard Of
Last year we were just starting to edge our way back into conference normality after the COVID pandemic and this blog was a way of celebrating and highlighting some of the lesser known AFM related conferences.
2023 MMC: The Inside View from NuNano's Applications Engineer Jamie Goodchild
It turns out reading about conferences is something you’re really interested in as Jamie’s piece on the 2023 MMC conference ranks number 7 in our most popular blogs of the last year.
(New Year's) resolution of an AFM probe
We’re pleased that some of our older content is still finding its mark such as this piece on AFM probe resolution…
A pedant's (Christmas) guide to AFM probe terminology
…and one of our very earliest (and somewhat tongue-in-cheek) blogs on whether an AFM probe by any other name would image so well, remains popular with you all. What do YOU call an AFM probe? A tip? A chip? A cantilever?
The AFM Community Resources "One-Stop Shop"
And coming in at number ten in our pop-pickers pick of the blogs is on a topic we’re pretty passionate about at NuNano. We believe the best science happens when we get together to collaborate or share our knowledge and findings. Atomic Force Microscopy continues to expand and grow in terms of reach and what can be done with it. Because of the range of people and disciplines it would be too easy to fall into a place where the wheel is being reinvented in labs all over the world: Anything we can do to prevent that happening by ensuring information is readily available and accessible in one place we’re determined to do. Check out our resources guide and do let us know if there’s something you’d like us to add!
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