Description
Book SynopsisMany books and reviews about scanning probe microscopies (SPM) cover the basics of their performance, novel developments, and state-of-the-art applications. Taking a different approach, Hybridizing Surface Probe Microscopies: Towards a Full Description of the Meso- and Nanoworlds encompasses the technical efforts in combining SPM with spectroscopic and optical complementary techniques that, altogether, provide a complete description of nanoscale and mesoscale systems and processes from corrosion to enzymatic reactions.
The book is organized into eight chapters, following a general scheme that revolves around the two main capabilities of SPM: imaging and measuring interactions. Each chapter introduces key theoretical concepts and basic equations of the particular stand-alone technique with which the scanning probe microscopies are combined. Chapters end with the SPM-technique combination and some real-world examples in which the combination has been devised or us
Table of Contents
Introduction. Scanning Probe Microscopy as an Imaging Tool: The Blind Microscope. What Brings Optical Microscopy: The Eyes at the Microscale. What Brings the Scanning Near-Field Optical Microscopy: The Eyes at the Nanoscale. Adding Label-Free Chemical Spectroscopy: Who Is Who? Combining the Nanoscopic with the Macroscopic: SPM and Surface-Sensitive Techniques. Scanning Probe Microscopy to Measure Surface Interactions: The Nano Push-Puller. Tidying Up Loose Ends for the Nanopush-Puller: Microinterferometry and the Film Balance.
