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Revealing the Mechanism Underlying 3D-AFM Imaging of Suspended Structures by Experiments and Simulations

The invention of 3D atomic force microscopy (3D-AFM) has enabled visualizing subnanoscale 3D hydration structures. Meanwhile, its applications to imaging flexible molecular chains have started to be experimentally explored. However, the validity and princi ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2024

Label-Free Techniques for Probing Biomolecular Condensates

Aleksandra Radenovic, Khalid Ashraf Mohie Ibrahim, Helena Miljkovic, Wayne Yang Wen Wei, Akhil Sai Naidu

Biomolecular condensates play important roles in a wide array of fundamental biological processes, such as cellular compartmentalization, cellular regulation, and other biochemical reactions. Since their discovery and first observations, an extensive and e ...

Amer Chemical Soc2024

Atomic-scale Characterization of Strain and Gate effects on Two-dimensional Materials by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Jz -Yuan Juo

Strain is an inevitable phenomenon in two-dimensional (2D) material, regardless of whether the film is suspended or supported. Moreover, strain is known to alter the physical and chemical properties, such as the band gap, charge carrier effective masses, d ...

EPFL2023

Ultimate Limit for Optical Losses in Gold, Revealed by Quantitative Near-Field Microscopy

Sergejs Boroviks

We report thorough measurements of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) running along nearly perfect air-gold interfaces formed by atomically flat surfaces of chemically synthesized gold monocrystals. By means of amplitude-and phase-resolved near-field micros ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Tuning SAS-6 architecture with monobodies impairs distinct steps of centriole assembly

Tatiana Favez, Pierre Gönczy, Virginie Hamel, Santiago Harald Andany, Georg Fantner, Oliver Hantschel, Georgios Hatzopoulos, Niccolo Banterle

Centrioles are evolutionarily conserved multi-protein organelles essential for forming cilia and centrosomes. Centriole biogenesis begins with self-assembly of SAS-6 proteins into 9-fold symmetrical ring polymers, which then stack into a cartwheel that sca ...

Nature Research2021

Correlative 3D microscopy of single cells using super-resolution and scanning ion-conductance microscopy

Aleksandra Radenovic, Adrien Charles-François Raymond Descloux, Georg Fantner, Samuel Mendes Leitão, Kristin Stefanie Grussmayer, Barney Frederick Drake, Vytautas Navikas

High-resolution live-cell imaging is necessary to study complex biological phenomena. Modern fluorescence microscopy methods are increasingly combined with complementary, label-free techniques to put the fluorescence information into the cellular context. ...

Nature Research2021

Nondestructive characterization of laser powder bed fusion parts with neutron Bragg edge imaging

Christian Leinenbach, Roland Logé, Nikola Kalentics, Markus Strobl

Laser powder bed fusion is an efficient technique for additive manufacturing of metallic materials. The quality of the material produced depends on the optimization of a large range of build parameters and the complex thermo-mechanical build process is pro ...

ELSEVIER2021

New Methods for the Integrative Dynamic Modeling of Biomolecular Structures

Sylvain Träger

The true understanding of most cellular functions is only really achievable through the structural determination of their underlying macromolecular assemblies. However, their size, large number of individual components and metastable states make their eluc ...

EPFL2021

Biophysical applications of correlative scanning probe and super-resolution microscopy

Vytautas Navikas

Imaging live cells in their native environment is crucial for the understanding of complex biological phenomena. Modern optical microscopy methods such as fluorescence super-resolution microscopy are increasingly combined with complementary, label-free tec ...

EPFL2021

Nanoscale Characterization of Amyloid Fibrils and Biomacromolecules by Atomic Force Microscopy Approaches

Jiangtao Zhou

This thesis focuses on the interdisciplinary biophysical research field, in which physical approaches are applied to study the biological phenomena. Specifically, the main object of the research in this thesis is to target biological species,especially the ...

EPFL2020

High-quality single crystal diamond diffraction gratings fabricated by crystallographic etching

Christian Santschi, Niels Quack, Olivier Martin, Toralf Scharf, Marcell Kristof Kiss, Teodoro Graziosi

We demonstrate a novel method for fabricating single crystal diamond diffraction gratings based on crystallographic etching that yields high-quality diffraction gratings from commercially available diamond plates. Both V-groove and rectangular gratin ...

2019

A novel microfabrication platform for hybrid multilayer MEMS

Nahid Hosseini

In Atomic force microscopy (AFM), the tip-sample interaction force can be measured through two primary detection techniques: optical beam detection (OBD) and electrical (self-sensing) readout. Compared to the optical method, the convenience of the self-sen ...

EPFL2019

Scanning Probe Microscopy Characterization of Organic Self-Assembled Monolayers

Evangelia-Nefeli Athanasopoulou

As technology advances, surface coatings become more and more important to assure materials performances. In recent years, molecular coatings have found larger acceptance and uses. Among them, self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) are attractive because they ar ...

EPFL2018

Surface-confined Electrochemiluminescence Microscopy of Cell Membranes

Andreas Stephan Lesch, Milica Jovic

Herein is reported a surface-confined microscopy based on electrochemiluminescence (ECL) which allows to image the plasma membrane of single cells at the interface with an electrode. By analyzing photoluminescence (PL), ECL and AFM images of mammalian CHO ...

2018

Recent improvements on micro-thermocouple based SThM

Danick Briand

The scanning thermal microscope (SThM) has become a versatile tool for local surface temperature mapping or measuring thermal properties of solid materials. In this article, we present recent improvements in a SThM system, based on a micro-wire thermocoupl ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2017

Molecular Imaging of Biopolymers Enabled by Electrospray-Ion Beam Deposition

Sabine Abb

Biomolecular functional complexes often serve as inspiration for the development of artificial molecular nanostructures. The functionality of the biomolecular structures is based on complex and adaptable binding motifs that have evolved over billions of ye ...

EPFL2017

Scanning tunneling microscopy on large bio-molecular systems on surfaces

Sebastian Koslowski

The ever growing demand for the development of new technologies and materials has led to extensive studies inspired by biological functional complexes. Peptides with their outstanding ability to efficiently self-assemble can express a broad spectrum of int ...

EPFL2017

Characterization at the Atomistic Level of Defective Structures in Complex Materials : A Theoretical Study

Piyush Agrawal

Defects are key to enhance or deploy particular materials properties. In this thesis I present analyses of the impact of defects on the electronic structure of materials using combined experimental and theoretical Electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) i ...

EPFL2017

Determination of the Elastic Behavior of Silicon Nanowires within a Scanning Electron Microscope

Yusuf Leblebici, Zuhal Tasdemir

Three-point bending tests were performed on double-anchored, < 110 > silicon nanowire samples in the vacuum chamber of a scanning electron microscope ( SEM) via a micromanipulator equipped with a piezoresistive force sensor. Nanowires with widths of 35nm a ...

Hindawi Limited2016

Atomic Scale Observation of Chemical and Electronic Properties of Metal-Oxide Surfaces

Christian Alexander Stephan Dette

To meet the future global energy demand - an estimated additional 10 terawatts (TWs) per year in 2050 - a diversification of energy sources and fuels is needed. Solar energy represents a prominent alternative energy source. An important material for these ...

EPFL2016