A review of atomic force microscopy imaging systems: application to molecular metrology and biological sciences

N Jalili, K Laxminarayana - Mechatronics, 2004 - Elsevier
The atomic force microscope (AFM) system has evolved into a useful tool for direct
measurements of micro-structural parameters and unraveling the intermolecular forces at …

Review on near-field detection technology in the biomedical field

X Hu, L Zhou, X Wu, Y Peng - Advanced Photonics Nexus, 2023 - spiedigitallibrary.org
We review the recent biomedical detection developments of scanning near-field optical
microscopy (SNOM), focusing on scattering-type SNOM, atomic force microscope-based …

Colloquium: The physics of charge inversion in chemical and biological systems

AY Grosberg, TT Nguyen, BI Shklovskii - Reviews of modern physics, 2002 - APS
The authors review recent advances in the physics of strongly interacting charged systems
functioning in water at room temperature. In these systems, many phenomena go beyond …

Advanced atomic force microscopy modes for biomedical research

F Xia, K Youcef-Toumi - Biosensors, 2022 - mdpi.com
Visualization of biomedical samples in their native environments at the microscopic scale is
crucial for studying fundamental principles and discovering biomedical systems with …

AFM: a versatile tool in biophysics

A Alessandrini, P Facci - Measurement science and technology, 2005 - iopscience.iop.org
Here we review the applications of atomic force microscopy to the study of samples of
biological origin. Emphasis is given to provide the reader with information on the broad …

Visualization of supercoiled DNA with atomic force microscopy in situ

YL Lyubchenko… - Proceedings of the …, 1997 - National Acad Sciences
Tertiary structure of supercoiled DNA is a significant factor in a number of genetic functions
and is apparently affected by environmental conditions. We applied atomic force microscopy …

Structures of lipid–DNA complexes: supramolecular assembly and gene delivery

CR Safinya - Current Opinion in Structural Biology, 2001 - Elsevier
Recently, there has been a flurry of experimental work on understanding the supramolecular
assemblies that are formed when cationic liposomes (CLs) are mixed with DNA. From a …

[HTML][HTML] Structural and functional imaging with carbon nanotube AFM probes

JH Hafner, CL Cheung, AT Woolley… - Progress in biophysics and …, 2001 - Elsevier
Atomic force microscopy (AFM) has great potential as a tool for structural biology, a field in
which there is increasing demand to characterize larger and more complex biomolecular …

Conformation and self-diffusion of single DNA molecules confined to two dimensions

B Maier, JO Rädler - Physical review letters, 1999 - APS
The conformation of DNA molecules electrostatically bound to fluid cationic lipid bilayers is
investigated by fluorescence microscopy. The DNA diffuses freely in the plane and follows …

Orienting DNA helices on gold using applied electric fields

SO Kelley, JK Barton, NM Jackson, LD McPherson… - Langmuir, 1998 - ACS Publications
Gold surfaces modified with thiol-derivatized DNA duplexes have been investigated as a
function of applied electrochemical potential via atomic force microscopy (EC-AFM). At open …