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Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) operating in the frequency modulation mode with a metal tip functionalized with a CO molecule images the internal structure of molecules with an unprecedented resolution. The interpretation of these images is…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-12-29 Jaime Carracedo-Cosme , Rubén Pérez

Despite being the main tool to visualize molecules at the atomic scale, AFM with CO-functionalized metal tips is unable to chemically identify the observed molecules. Here we present a strategy to address this challenging task using deep…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Jaime Carracedo-Cosme , Carlos Romero-Muñiz , Pablo Pou , Rubén Pérez

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) with molecule-functionalized tips has emerged as the primary experimental technique for probing the atomic structure of organic molecules on surfaces. Most experiments have been limited to nearly planar…

Non--Contact Atomic Force Microscopy with CO--functionalized metal tips (referred to as HR-AFM) provides access to the internal structure of individual molecules adsorbed on a surface with totally unprecedented resolution. Previous works…

The rise of automation and machine learning (ML) in electron microscopy has the potential to revolutionize materials research through autonomous data collection and processing. A significant challenge lies in developing ML models that…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-05-31 Abid Khan , Chia-Hao Lee , Pinshane Y. Huang , Bryan K. Clark

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a mechanical profiling technique that allows to image surfaces with atomic resolution. Recent progress in reducing the noise of this technique has led to a resolution level where previously undetectable…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-24 F. J. Giessibl , H. Bielefeldt , S. Hembacher , J. Mannhart

Atomic force microscopy (AFM or SPM) imaging is one of the best matches with machine learning (ML) analysis among microscopy techniques. The digital format of AFM images allows for direct utilization in ML algorithms without the need for…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Igor Sokolov

Atomic force microscopy (AFM) is a key tool for characterising nanoscale structures, with functionalised tips now offering detailed images of the atomic structure. In parallel, AFM simulations using the particle probe model provide a…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-09-03 Jie Huang , Niko Oinonen , Fabio Priante , Filippo Federici Canova , Lauri Kurki , Chen Xu , Adam S. Foster

Adversarial examples pose many security threats to convolutional neural networks (CNNs). Most defense algorithms prevent these threats by finding differences between the original images and adversarial examples. However, the found…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-27 Li Chen , Qi Li , Weiye Chen , Zeyu Wang , Haifeng Li

Navigating the vast chemical space of molecular structures to design novel drug molecules with desired target properties remains a central challenge in drug discovery. Recent advances in generative models offer promising solutions. This…

Atomic Force Microscopy has enabled 2D imaging at the sub-molecular level, and 3D mapping of the potential field. However, fast identification of the surface still remains a challenging topic. In this paper, as a step towards implementation…

With the recent advances in machine learning for quantum chemistry, it is now possible to predict the chemical properties of compounds and to generate novel molecules. Existing generative models mostly use a string- or graph-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-14 Vitali Nesterov , Mario Wieser , Volker Roth

This paper proposes a novel approach based on conditional Generative Adversarial Networks (cGAN) for breast mass segmentation in mammography. We hypothesized that the cGAN structure is well-suited to accurately outline the mass area,…

Functional groups (FGs) are molecular substructures that are served as a foundation for analyzing and predicting chemical properties of molecules. Automatic discovery of FGs will impact various fields of research, including medicinal…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-11 Phillip Pope , Soheil Kolouri , Mohammad Rostrami , Charles Martin , Heiko Hoffmann

Intermolecular features in atomic force microscopy (AFM) images of organic molecules have been ascribed to intermolecular bonds. A recent theoretical study [P. Hapala et al., Phys. Rev. B 90, 085421 (2014)] showed that these features can…

The growth and characterization of materials using empirical optimization typically requires a significant amount of expert time, experience, and resources. Several complementary characterization methods are routinely performed to determine…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-20 Isaiah A. Moses , Chen Chen , Joan M. Redwing , Wesley F. Reinhart

Amplitude-modulation atomic force microscopy enables observation of fragile molecules at the nanometer scale. To shorten measurement times and capture dynamic molecules, increasing the frame rate is essential. Traditionally, maximum frame…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Kenichi Umeda , Noriyuki Kodera

Tapping mode atomic force microscopy (AFM), also known as amplitude modulated (AM) or AC mode, is a proven, reliable and gentle imaging mode with widespread applications. Over the several decades that tapping mode has been in use,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-07 Marta Kocun , Aleksander Labuda , Waiman Meinhold , Irene Revenko , Roger Proksch

Structural and mechanical differences between cancerous and healthy tissue give rise to variations in macroscopic properties such as visual appearance and elastic modulus that show promise as signatures for early cancer detection. Atomic…

Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) allows to reconstruct the topography of surface with a resolution in the nanometer range. The exceptional resolution attainable with the AFM makes this instrument a key tool in nanoscience and technology. The…

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