The first atomic force microscope (AFM) images on non-conducting surfaces marked a feat of ingenuity and technical skill bordering on the improbable. Thirty years on, and the same technique capable of nanoscale resolution has now been flat-packed into an affordable unit that can be assembled by 11-year-old school children. The Strømlingo flat-packed atomic force microscope is an open-platform nanoscale imaging device that can be both readily assembled and modified, thereby opening up the technology for the user’s creativity to come to play….
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