- Description:
Dette kursus vil give teoretisk baggrund men også praktiske anvendelse af moderne scanning probe teknikker indenfor områderne Life Science, Soft Matter og Nanofabrikation. Scanning probe mikroskopi har udviklet sig fra et rent fysik redskab til en langt mere udbredt teknik indenfor alle grene af naturvidenskaben. Denne type mikroskopi tillader udover topografiske informationer også at indsamle informationer om magnetiske, elektriske og mekaniske egenskaber. Selve teknikken tillader at scanne biologiske prøver, organiske materialer og uorganiske stoffer. Det er ikke kun muligt at få molekylært detaljerede billeder men også informationer om interaktioner imellem molekyler. Bløde stoffers specielle opførsel, såvel som deres specielle oprensningsmetoder, stiller ekstra krav til forskerne. På dette kursus opnår de studerende erfaring med prøveforberedelse og billeddannelse på selve instrumentet gennem praktiske øvelser.
The course will provide students with theoretical background and “hands-on” experience in applications of SPM in Life Sciences, Soft Matter and Nanofabrication. Scanning probe microscopy, which initially was develop to obtain images of clean solid surfaces with atomic resolution, now became a main stream technique on biology, polymer chemistry and material science and not only can visualize the topography of samples with sub-nanometer resolution, but can also probe their mechanical, magnetic and electric properties on nanoscale.
Although the general scanning probe techniques can be applied to biological and soft-matter samples, their softness and necessity to maintain particular environmental conditions, as well as specific purification, deposition and immobilization procedures provide an additional challenge for experimentalists. The course will encompass hands-on sessions, where students will get practical training in basic techniques for sample preparation and imaging techniques.
- Organizer: Leonid Gurevich
- Lecturers:
- Alexander Kotlyar (Tel Aviv University):
“Purification, deposition and imaging of biological molecules and viruses”
- Ned Seeman (New York University):
“Using the chemical information in DNA to organize the structure of matter on the nanoscale.”
- Yuri Lyubchenko (University of Nebraska Medical School):
“Nanocinematography — Dynamics of protein-DNA complexes with AFM”
- Pedro de Pablo (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid):
"AFM: imaging techniques and applications"
- Valentyn Volkov (South Denmark University):
"Scanning near-field optical microscopy"
- Dmitrii Bagrov (Moscow State University):
"Direct visualization of dynamic processes in polymers and biological samples using AFM"
- Pavel Dorozhkin (NT-MDT):
- ECTS: 3
- Time: August 26-30
- Place:
Department of Physics and Nanotechnology
Aalborg University
Skjernvej 4A
- Zip code: DK-9220
- City: Aalborg East
- Number of seats: 40
- Deadline: August 5
- Teacher: Leonid Gurevich