In our 25th year after foundation, Nanosurf has developed more dynamically and faster than ever before. Incoming orders doubled and sales increased by more than 50%. With the new DriveAFM, Nanosurf is setting new standards in terms of performance, versatility, and ease of use. A worldwide sales network with six own branches and 30 distributors brings the added value of our systems to customers in research and industry.
Dr. Urs Matter, CEO
More than half of the sales revenue is realized in industrial applications, wherever precision in the nanometer range, highest quality, premium engineering, and great reliability are required. It's wonderful to see the company becoming more agile and productive as it matures. These characteristics allow us to create added value for our customers so that they can better research and measure. And as we get older, we don't intend to stand still and rest on our laurels, we instead evolve to become evermore dynamic and customer-oriented, continually attentive to the small details that are needed to take quality and performance to the top, and ensure that our customers can easily solve their measurement tasks and research demands.
We are very pleased to celebrate our 25-year success story on October 6th in or close to Basel as part of a scientific symposium. Make a note of the date and look forward to an unforgettable event. We will do our best today and in the next 25 years.
Also, stay tuned for a special piece of news that we will be releasing this Friday.
Yours, Urs Matter, CEO
DriveAFM success story
First research success within weeks of DriveAFM installation
In our last newsletter we reported on the installation of a new DriveAFM system at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. News reached us that the research group around Akhil Chauhan, Nishat Sultana and Rob Rienstra from the Kermani Lab have succeeded in clearly resolving the Moiré patterns on 4-layer twisted graphene structures using force modulation mode on the DriveAFM.
“We were amazed by the resolution and details visible in imaging Moiré patterns with the DriveAFM." – Akhil Chauhan, GMU
Topography image of a 4-layer twisted graphene structure measured in force modulation mode
Amplitude image of a 4-layer twisted graphene structure measured in force modulation mode
A community for users of DriveAFM
Join the Driver's Club and get access to exclusive benefits
The early-access community we created in the run-up to the launch of WaveMode has become so popular we would like to use it to provide an additional level of service to users of our flagship AFM platform, the Drive(AFM).
If you are you already a member of the early-access community: Welcome to the Driver's Club! If not, why not consider joining us now?
As a member, you receive dedicated updates on all things Drive-related. In the future, we will build this into a community for discussion, information sharing and learning for DriveAFM users. Member benefits include exclusive educational opportunities, preferential access to valuable content and special introductory deals and upgrade offers.
Recent application notes & publications
Characterization of Polyethylene with DriveAFM
AFM is applied to the characterization of various grades of polyethylene as well as PE-containing blends, one of the most ubiquitous plastics in the consumer market.
Exploring Nanoscale Organization of Normal Alkanes
AFM studies of normal and ultra-long alkanes reveal a set of fine structural features related to the lateral chain folding and lamellar architecture in their layers on HOPG.
KPFM is a powerful electrical mode for AFMs. Here we show its use for measuring a surface potential, which is essential in multiple domains of material research.
Nanosurf's Industrial Solutions Team develop custom engineering solutions to bring AFM into applications at the forefront of industrial hi-tech. If you haven't heard about this side of Nanosurf before, make sure to check us out in Hannover.
A CoreAFM system was installed at RhySearch, a research and innovation center located in Buchs in eastern Switzerland. RhySearch actively fosters innovation and research in the fields of optical coatings and high-precision manufacturing. The CoreAFM will support their research by providing high-resolution surface information required to optimize processes and products.
DriveAFM with FluidFM® installed at the UT Austin
While Christian Bippes was traveling the US for the BPS conference, he took the opportunity to personally lead the installation of a new DriveAFM at the Keitz Lab, University of Texas at Austin.
The DriveAFM can be mounted interchangeably as either a stand-alone system or on an inverted microscope.
"Thanks to AFOSR and Nanosurf for the DriveAFM and FluidFM. We’re excited to start characterizing living materials!” – Dr. Ben Keitz, Assistant Professor, McKetta Department of Chemical Engineering, UT Austin
Selected publications using Nanosurf AFMs
Mitochondria transplantation between living cells Gäbelein CG, Feng Q, Sarajlic E, Zambelli T, Guillaume-Gentil O, Kornmann B, et al. (2022). PLoS Biol 20(3): e3001576. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.3001576
Reconstituted virus-nucleus system reveals mechanics of Herpesvirus genome uncoating Evilevitch, A., & Tsimtsirakis, E. (2022). Reconstituted virus–nucleus system reveals mechanics of herpesvirus genome uncoating. QRB Discovery,3, E2. https://doi.org/10.1017/qrd.2021.14
Interplay of DLIP and LIPSS in surface structuring A. Sikora, M. Faucon, Laura Gemini, R. Kling, and G. Mincuzzi, Proc. SPIE 11989, Laser-based Micro- and Nanoprocessing XVI, 119890R (4 March 2022); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2607707
Injection into and extraction from single fungal cells