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Imaging Living Cells and Mapping Their Surface Molecules with the Atomic Force Microscope

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Methods in Cellular Imaging

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In 1986 Gerd Binnig and Heinrich Roher shared the Nobel Prize in Physics for inventing the scanning tunneling microscope (STM) and discovering that it can image individual atoms with unprecedented resolution (Binnig et al., 1982). This novel type of microscopy is based on the quantum phenomenon that electrons can tunnel through a narrow insulating gap between two conductors.

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  1. W. M. Keck Center for Cellular Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA

    Ammasi Periasamy Ph.D. (Director, Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering) (Director, Professor of Biology and Biomedical Engineering)

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Gad, M., Ikai, A. (2001). Imaging Living Cells and Mapping Their Surface Molecules with the Atomic Force Microscope. In: Periasamy, A. (eds) Methods in Cellular Imaging. Methods in Physiology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7513-2_24

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