{"id":30534,"date":"2016-09-26T19:32:04","date_gmt":"2016-09-27T02:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/3d-nanoprinting-improves-performance-of-atomic-force-microscopes"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:13:11","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:13:11","slug":"3d-nanoprinting-improves-performance-of-atomic-force-microscopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/09\/3d-nanoprinting-improves-performance-of-atomic-force-microscopes","title":{"rendered":"3D nanoprinting improves performance of atomic force microscopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-nanoprinting-improves-performance-of-atomic-force-microscopes.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tiny sensors made through nanoscale 3D printing may be the basis for the next generation of atomic force microscopes. These nanosensors can enhance the microscopes\u2019 sensitivity and detection speed by miniaturizing their detection component up to 100 times. The sensors were used in a real-world application for the first time at EPFL, and the results are published in Nature Communications.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"display:none;\" itemprop=\"image\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/3d-nanoprinting-improves-performance-of-atomic-force-microscopes.jpg\" alt=\"nanosensor\" border=\"0\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p>The sensor is made up of highly conductive platinum nanoparticles surrounded by an insulating carbon matrix. (Image: EPFL) <\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=44635.php\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=44635.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tiny sensors made through nanoscale 3D printing may be the basis for the next generation of atomic force microscopes. These nanosensors can enhance the microscopes\u2019 sensitivity and detection speed by miniaturizing their detection component up to 100 times. The sensors were used in a real-world application for the first time at EPFL, and the results [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1489,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-30534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3d-printing","category-nanotechnology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66144,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30534\/revisions\/66144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}