Scanning probe microscopy of soft matter: Recent progress

This special issue of European Polymer Journal is devoted to contributions presented at the International Conference on Scanning Probe Microscopy on Soft and Polymeric Materials 2012, SPM on SPM 2012, which took place between September 23rd and 26th 2012 in Rolduc Abbey in Kerkrade (The Netherlands). Following the long standing but temporarily interrupted tradition of dedicated topical scanning probe microscopy conferences with a clear focus on polymers in Santa Barbara (California, USA) (1999), Weingarten (Germany) (2001) and Kerkrade (2003), this meeting aimed at bringing together researchers from academia as well as industrial participants from all continents to discuss and share the most recent developments in the application of Scanning Probe Microscopy on Soft and Polymeric Materials.

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[2]  G. Dietler,et al.  Fine DNA structure revealed by constant height frequency modulation AFM imaging , 2013 .

[3]  H. Timmers,et al.  Micro-scratching of polyethylene terephthalate: Mechanisms of wear debris generation , 2013 .

[4]  G. Vancso,et al.  Multimodal imaging of heterogeneous polymers at the nanoscale by AFM and scanning near-field ellipsometric microscopy , 2013 .

[5]  C. Svanberg,et al.  Improved electrical and flow properties of conductive polyolefin blends: Modification of poly(ethylene vinyl acetate) copolymer/carbon black with ethylene–propylene copolymer , 2013 .

[6]  Ricardo Garcia,et al.  Nanomechanical mapping of soft matter by bimodal force microscopy , 2013 .

[7]  H. Schönherr,et al.  Covalently cross-linked poly(acrylamide) brushes on gold with tunable mechanical properties via surface-initiated atom transfer radical polymerization , 2013 .

[8]  Rong-rong Li,et al.  The fabrication and electrical characterization of protein fibril-templated one-dimensional palladium nanostructures , 2013 .

[9]  G. Schitter,et al.  Temperature and thermal history dependence of the microstructure in bituminous materials , 2013 .

[10]  W. Vandervorst,et al.  Electrical properties of amino SAM layers studied with conductive AFM , 2013 .

[11]  R. Berger,et al.  Electrical characterization of organic solar cell materials based on scanning force microscopy , 2013 .

[12]  Seyyed Mohsen Beladi‐Mousavi,et al.  PolyTEMPO and polyviologen on carbon nanotubes: syntheses, structures and organic battery applications , 2013 .