I am going to be teaching on two new AFM short courses to be held this summer. The courses are:
AFM Advanced Operation Techniques
and
AFM Bioapplications
Both of these courses will be taught at the headquarters of AFMWorkshop in California, USA, but will be open to, and suitable for, users of all instruments. The courses will be a mix of lectures and practical work with different microscopes.
Both courses are taking place in mid-July. Follow this link to a .pdf brochure, and consult the AFM Workshop website for more details on these courses.
At the time of writing there are places available on both courses, but places will be very limited. I recommend reserving a place ASAP from AFMWorkshop, if you are interested.
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The Porto AFM Workshop 2017 has been announced. This is our fifth course!
The course will run from the 10th to 13th April. This is a training workshop, aimed at any researcher or scientist, who wants to learn about AFM, or increase their knowledge of the technique. Following the successful courses that have run since 2011, the course will includes several hours hands-on training in acquiring images with the atomic force microscope as well as AFM data processing.
Please click the image below to download the flyer with more details.
UPDATES:
- More details of the course will be announced soon, meanwhile, as usual, pre-registration can be made by emailing me at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.. Places on the course are very limited, so interested students should make enquiries or register as soon as possible.
- There will be some guest scientists, talking about advanced applications in different areas. More details will be announced soon
A blog with information and student feedback from the previous courses can be seen here: 2014 course, Requimte AFM Workshop 2013
Some information about the course that took place in 2011 can be seen here: http://atomicforceblog.blogspot.com/2011/09/2011-requimte-afm-mini-course.html
The course is supported by AFMWorkshop, The Faculty of Sciences of The University of Porto and my research institution, UCIBIO. Thanks to Krystallenia Batziou for po
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Our course registration deadline passed in February, and the course for 2016 is now full. Register an interest by emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. if you would like to know when the next course is announced.
Click the image below to go to the course information page, or email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. for enquiries about our course.
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Dimensional measurements of nanoparticles are extremely important for their applications in a diverse range of fields. The unique properties of nanoparticles depend strongly on their size, so it’s extremely important to be able to characterize, and control nanoparticle sizes. For example, an extremely small change in the dimension of a quantum dot nanoparticle will give rise to dramatically different photoluminescence characteristics. in the case of metallic nanoparticles, the size of the particle will alter light absorption and scattering properties, which are highly important for many applications, including in disease diagnosis and therapy (1). Many other properties depend on nanoparticle size, including magnetic and mechanical properties, interactions with cells and tissues, etc. The shape of nanoparticles also has a strong effect on these properties.
Thus, in nanoscience, it is crucial to have a tool that can simply characterise particles size and shape of nanoparticles, irrespective of the material of which they are composed, with sub-nanometer resolution. The figure below shows AFM imaging of a variety of nanoparticle types.
Figure above shows (L-R) silica nanospheres, organometallic nanorods, and gold nanotriangles all imaged by AFM. Adapted from figure 7.11 of Eaton and West, Atomic Force Microscopy(2)
AFM fulfils these requirements, z-axis (height) measurements in AFM can be accurate to within 0.1 nm. AFM also has several other advantages for characterisation of nanoparticles:
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This website was taken offline on Wednesday 27th April. The reason was that the site had been hacked, was occasionally redirecting users to other websites. I have removed the vulnerabilities, have the site fully functional. The site was down for a total of 5 days.
If you ever are redirected to another site from this one (without clicking on an appropriate link), or see anything wrong with the site, please let me know by filling the contact form.
Thank you for your patience, and apologies if you found something here you should not have!
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