Nanoscale compositional mapping of cells, tissues, and polymers with ringing mode of atomic force microscopy.

ABSTRACT: Recently developed sub-resonance tapping modes (such as Digital Pulse, Peak Force Tapping, HybriD, etc.) of atomic force microscopy (AFM) allow imaging of compositional contrast of (bio)materials and biological cells down to the nanoscale. Here we report on a powerful extension of those modes, "ringing" mode, which more than doubles the number of non-trivial physical channels that can be collected with a regular sub-resonance tapping. It can simultaneously record five new additional compositional parameters related to adhesive and viscoelastic properties of the sample surface: the restored (averaged) adhesion, adhesion height, pull-off neck height, detachment distance, and detachment energy losses. Ringing mode can be up to 20 times faster and showing fewer artifacts compared to the existi

SUBMITTER: Dokukin ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5605548 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature