Technical Advances in High-speed Atomic Force Microscopy

Overview

Journal Biophys Rev

Publisher Springer

Specialty Biophysics

Date 2024 Jan 9

PMID 38192344

Authors

Shingo Fukuda

Toshio Ando

Affiliations

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Abstract

It has been 30 years since the outset of developing high-speed atomic force microscopy (HS-AFM), and 15 years have passed since its establishment in 2008. This advanced microscopy is capable of directly visualizing individual biological macromolecules in dynamic action and has been widely used to answer important questions that are inaccessible by other approaches. The number of publications on the bioapplications of HS-AFM has rapidly increased in recent years and has already exceeded 350. Although less visible than these biological studies, efforts have been made for further technical developments aimed at enhancing the fundamental performance of HS-AFM, such as imaging speed, low sample disturbance, and scan size, as well as expanding its functionalities, such as correlative microscopy, temperature control, buffer exchange, and sample manipulations. These techniques can expand the range of HS-AFM applications. After summarizing the key technologies underlying HS-AFM, this article focuses on recent technical advances and discusses next-generation HS-AFM.

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