I hope you noticed that Nanosurf is growing at an unprecedented rate. One reason: we recognized the need for customer-specific solutions early on, and have since delivered many AFM systems that are tailored to the individual requirements of our customers.
Today this is consolidated in the Industrial Solutions division.
In recent years, the team has acquired core competencies to provide fully automated AFM machines that meet the growing need for nanometer-scale characterization of large samples in industry. We love new challenges, so I invite you to visit the Industrial Solutions section on the Nanosurf website - and approach us with your exciting new project.
We look forward to working with you.
Yours sincerely, Dr. Björn Pietzak Head of Industrial Solutions
Collaborative system design is key to your success
The process
After you first contact us with a request for a customization project, we hold a kick-off meeting to understand your requirements. Based on this, we propose a solution, which we review and refine together with your project team. Once the order is placed, our engineers develop and construct the system. Thorough testing completes the process, before your system is delivered and installed at your facility.
So, what is possible in 2022?
Over the years of designing custom AFM-based systems, Nanosurf has now has unparalleled experience when it comes to highly complex solutions.
The Industrial Solutions business unit has grown to a team of 12 highly skilled engineers, physicists, AFM experts and software developers.
Example: Motorized XYZΦ translation stage
See your solution take shape, from initial sketch, via physically precise construction - to the final solution delivered and installed at your facility.
The final solution
Engineered for the quality control of large glass samples, this custom stage keeps all movement below the sample, mitigating the risk of contamination by abrasions in moving components. The manual change of the scan head position in two defined positions keeps the overall dimensions of the stage small while still allowing access to the whole sample under the same relative orientation.
Moiré super lattice of twisted graphene on hBN imaged in force modulation mode on the contact resonance frequency.
Recent application notes & publications
Most shared application note of 2021: Evaluating AFM as an analysis tool for graphene
Graphene is the most famous member of the 2D materials family: a sheet of covalently bonded carbon atoms in a hexagonal lattice in which the thickness has been reduced to a single atom. This unique...
Determining mass of individual micron-sized particles using PicoBalance and FluidFM probes
Micron-sized particles are commercially available in a wide range of materials such as polymers, (magnetic) metals, glass and ceramics. They have applications in biology, medicine, material science...
RSI's Breakthrough instruments series takes a details look at DriveAFM's performance
In December Nanosurf published a paper in the renowned journal review of scientific instruments in the section Breakthrough instruments and products describing the DriveAFM at a more scientific level.
Mark this event in your calendar. At BPS 2022 Nanosurf will be introducing some significant new developments that will give DriveAFM users even more advanced measurement capabilities.
Stay tuned!
Webinars
April 2022 | 16:00 CET
New developments for Drive-Platform
April 2022 | STAY TUNED
Look forward to learning about the latest developments for the Drive-Platform. Details will be published shortly
In case you missed any of our previous webinars, you can view a recording on our video page.
Meet up with us at...
NanoCarbon Annual Conference 22-23 February 2022 Würzburg, Germany Session 1 features a talk on AFM as tool to characterize graphene by Dr. Patrick Frederix.
Nano in Bio 2022 30 May - 5 June 2022 Guadeloupe | Covid information
Recent installations
Installation at "Roma Tor Vergata"
Nanosurf's distribution partner Quantum Design Italy installed a FlexBio AFM at Università di Roma Tor Vergata's Department of Electronic Engineering*, on a Leica DMI8 Inverted Optical Microscope. The system features environmental and temperature control as well as a suite of advanced modes.
Our newest DriveAFM installation at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. From left to right, Akhil Chauhan, Nishat Sultana and Rob Rienstra from the Kermani Lab plan on using the DriveAFM to study 2D materials. They are really looking forward to using the DriveAFM to measure the lattice mismatch between layers in a twisted bi-layer (i.e. Moire Patterns).
New DriveAFM in Marburg
Marburg University took a DriveAFM on a Nikon inverted optical microscope into operation in November.
This is one of several DriveAFM systems with FluidFM add-on. Prof. Graumann's group will focus on bacterial research, single cells... Available at Summer School 2022?
*The researchers gratefully acknowledge the financial support of Regione Lazio through ISIS@MACH (IR approved by Giunta Regionale n. G10795, 7 August 2019 published by BURL n. 69 27 August 2019)
