Ultrahigh-resolution imaging of water networks by atomic force microscopy

A Shiotari, Y Sugimoto - Nature communications, 2017 - nature.com
Local defects in water layers growing on metal surfaces have a key influence on the wetting
process at the surfaces; however, such minor structures are undetectable by macroscopic …

Open the door to the atomic world by single-molecule atomic force microscopy

S Fang, YH Hu - Matter, 2021 - cell.com
Single-molecule atomic force microscopy (sm-AFM) is a state-of-the-art AFM involving single-
molecule tip functionalization, characterization, and manipulation. The pioneering work of tip …

Molecular identification, bond order discrimination, and apparent intermolecular features in atomic force microscopy studied with a charge density based method

M Ellner, P Pou, R Pérez - ACS nano, 2019 - ACS Publications
We introduce an efficient method to simulate high-resolution atomic force microscopy (HR-
AFM) images with CO probes. Our model explicitly takes into account the charge densities of …

Multiphase-field model for surface diffusion and attachment kinetics in the grand-potential framework

PW Hoffrogge, A Mukherjee, ES Nani, PGK Amos… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
Grand-potential based multiphase-field model is extended to include surface diffusion.
Diffusion is elevated in the interface through a scalar degenerate term. In contrast to the …

Simulating noncontact atomic force microscopy images

JR Chelikowsky, D Fan, AJ Lee, Y Sakai - Physical Review Materials, 2019 - APS
A scanning probe with an atomically sharp tip is used in atomic force microscopy. As the
probe is rastered over the specimen of interest, changes in its vibration mode can be …

Hydrogen bonded trimesic acid networks on Cu (111) reveal how basic chemical properties are imprinted in HR-AFM images

P Zahl, AV Yakutovich, E Ventura-Macías… - Nanoscale, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
High resolution non-contact atomic force microscopy measurements characterize
assemblies of trimesic acid molecules on Cu (111) and the link group interactions, providing …

Indications of chemical bond contrast in AFM images of a hydrogen-terminated silicon surface

H Labidi, M Koleini, T Huff, M Salomons… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
The origin of bond-resolved atomic force microscope images remains controversial.
Moreover, most work to date has involved planar, conjugated hydrocarbon molecules on a …

Copper-oxide tip functionalization for submolecular atomic force microscopy

H Mönig - Chemical Communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Establishing submolecular imaging in real-space by non-contact atomic force microscopy
(NC-AFM) has been a major breakthrough in the field of organic surface chemistry. The key …

Atomic force extrema induced by the bending of a CO-functionalized probe

N Néel, J Kröger - Nano Letters, 2021 - ACS Publications
The control and observation of reactants forming a chemical bond at the single-molecule
level is a long-standing challenge in quantum physics and chemistry. Using a single CO …

Discrimination of bond order in organic molecules using noncontact atomic force microscopy

D Fan, Y Sakai, JR Chelikowsky - Nano Letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Noncontact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) with a CO-functionalized tip can image
submolecular structures through high-resolution images with the possibility of discriminating …