Rubén Pérez

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review the fundamentals, applications and future tendencies of dynamic atomic force microscopy (AFM) methods and present a detailed quantitative comparison between theoretical simulations and experiment.

TL;DR: The performance of this approach is illustrated by imaging the surface of a particularly challenging alloy system and successfully identifying the three constituent atomic species silicon, tin and lead, even though these exhibit very similar chemical properties and identical surface position preferences that render any discrimination attempt based on topographic measurements impossible.

TL;DR: Applications in biology, polymer science and microelectronics illustrate the potential of phase-imaging force microscopy for nanoscale analysis.

TL;DR: This work reports the formation of C60 and the triazafullerene C57N3 from aromatic precursors using a highly efficient surface-catalysed cyclodehydrogenation process, and finds that after deposition onto a platinum (111) surface and heating to 750 K, the precursor molecules are transformed into the corresponding fullerene and triazaFULlerene molecules with about 100 per cent yield.

TL;DR: Progress in the manipulation of atoms and molecules with the atomic force microscope is reviewed, and the new opportunities presented by this technique are discussed.