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Scanning probe microscopy

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Technology update

Zigzag nanowire regulates Brownian motion

Magnetic trap could help scientists perform microfluidic experiments

Nano pioneers give food for thought

Trends in nanotechnology, quantum information and memristors were just a few of the topics up for debate at this year's Bristol Nanoscience Symposium

AFM tip 'writes' graphene nanowires

New, simple and fast technique could be used to make flexible electronic circuits from carbon sheets

Schottky diodes: the 'door' to future memory devices

Seoul National University group takes a closer look at resistance-switching random access memory (RRAM)

Lab talk

Probing delicate samples: stiff AFM mechanics at soft forces

Higher-order resonances allow low-force nanomechanical characterization

Biocompatible plasmonic substrates assembled for single-molecule detection

Small clusters of anisotropic silver nanoparticles enveloped in a shell of chitosan biopolymer operate as highly active SERS substrates

Diffraction grating reduces noise of coated AFM cantilevers

Special coating pattern based on Fresnel lens reduces the impact of detection-, force- and displacement-noise in atomic force microscopy

DNA nanoswitch flips open with force

Harvard team engineers DNA-based tool for studying biomolecular interactions