Leading Force Microscopy Experts Meet in Madrid

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The Materials Science Institute of Madrid (ICMM-CSIC) hosted a major event dedicated to atomic force microscopy during the last week of May. This event includes the tenth edition of the Multifrequency AFM Conference, the fourth edition of the Symposium on Cell and Soft Matter Nanomechanics, the third edition of the 3rd Symposium on Solid-Liquid Interfaces, and, finally, the Multifrequency AFM Sessions and NanoRAM: Emerging Nanotools for Soft Matter Characterization and Manipulation.

"The Multifrequency AFM conference series aims to provide the environment where the experts and the newcomers in the force microscopy and nanomechanics fields share knowledge, expertise and ideas about instrumentation, methodologies and theoretical aspects on advanced force microscopy," says Ricardo García, Chairman of the event.

This way, around 120 people gathered at the ICMM facilities to discuss the lastest news in the field. "The Multifrequency AFM conference is open to any contributions describing novel developments in any of the aspects of force microscopy (theory, experiment, applications, instrumentation, software)," adds García.

Some of the topics highlighted in the 10th Multifrequency AFM Conference were related to Machine learning methods for AFM, Nanomechanics, High-Speed AFM, High resolution imaging of soft matter, Imaging of solid-liquid interfaces, Cantilever design and dynamics and Bimodal AFM and Multifrequency methods. The Plenary Talk was given by Peter Hinterdorfer, from the Johanes Kepler University Linz.

Related to the topics in the 4rd Symposium on Cell and Soft Matter Nanomechanics, organizers highlited Nanorheology, Mechanobiology, AFM applications in biomedicine and Viscoelastic models and theory. In the 3rd Symposium of Solid-Liquid Interfaces, the main topics have been 3D AFM, High-spatial resolution imaging, and MD simulations.