Tuesday 26 March
08:00 – 08:45
Arrival & Badge Collection

General

08:45 – 09:00
Welcome

General

09:00 – 09:25
High-Speed Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy

Georg Fantner - EPFL Switzerland

09:25 – 09:50
Quantitative imaging of bacterial cell wall with AFM reaching unprecedented molecular resolution: an ovococci shape case study

Laia Pasquina-Lemonche - University of Sheffield

09:50 – 10:05
Multiparametric Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy for live cell studies - Andrew Shevchuk

Speaker

10:05 – 10:20
Nanoscale characterisation of colistin action on Escherichia coli - Carolina Borrelli

Speaker

10:20 – 10:45
Break

General

10:45 – 11:10
4D cell mechanics combining FluidFM with cTFM and FLIM

Tomaso Zambelli - ETH Zürich

11:10 – 11:25
Green-based multitarget nanoformulations to prevent biofilm contaminations in nosocomial environments - Giovanni Lo Bello

Speaker

11:25 – 11:40
Nanorheology and nanoindentation reveal a softening and an increased viscous fluidity of adherent mammalian cells upon increasing the frequency - Francisco M. Espinosa

Speaker

11:40 – 11:55
Comprehensive Quantification of Transformed Human Corneal Epithelial Cell Properties using Multifrequency AFM - Indrianita Lionadi

Speaker

11:55 – 12:00
Nanosurf: Photothermally excited cantilevers for new nanomechanical AFM modes

Techno Bite

12:00 – 12:05
Vmicro: Lprobes: AFM Probes based on in-plane silicon technology

Techno Bite

12:05 – 13:30
Break & Exhibition

General

13:30 – 13:55
Correlative Atomic Force Microscopy for the characterisation of biological specimens

Ioanna Mela - University of Cambridge

13:55 – 14:10
Single molecule delivery into living cells - Paolo Actis

Speaker

14:10 – 14:25
Structural analysis of individual helical filaments by three-dimensional contact point reconstruction atomic force microscopy - Wei Feng Xue

Speaker

14:25 – 14:40
An atomic force microscopy study on the effects of the magnetic ionic liquid [bmim][FeCl4] on the morphology and mechano-elasticity of a DMPC phospholipid bilayer - Boujmil Imen

Speaker

14:40 – 14:55
Deciphering the adaption of bacterial cell wall mechanical integrity and turgor to different chemical or mechanical environments - Rui Han

Speaker

14:55 – 15:20
Break

General

15:20 – 15:45
Application of high-speed AFM to synthetic polymers and supramolecules

Takayuki Uchihashi - Nagoya University

15:45 – 16:00
Investigating DNA damage with Atomic Force Microscopy - Thomas E. Catley

Speaker

16:00 – 16:15
Single-cell dissection and nano-electrical characterization of the conductive cable bacteria - Lasse Klausen

Speaker

16:15 – 16:45
AFM, SPM, and the Origins of Life in Micaceous Clay

Helen Hansma - University of California

16:45 – 18:00
Poster Session & Drinks Reception

General

Wednesday 27 March
08:30 – 09:00
Arrival & Badge Collection

General

09:00 – 09:25
Material-water interfaces at the molecular level

Ricardo Garcia - Instituto de Ciencia de Materials de Madrid (CSIC)

09:25 – 09:50
Multifunctional Scanning Ion Conductance Microscopy: Quantitative Topographical-Functional Mapping of Charged and Dynamic Interfaces

Patrick Unwin - University of Warwick

09:50 – 10:05
Operando nanomapping of the 3D mechanical nanostructure of SEI in real Na-ion battery electrodes: A 3D nano-rheology microscopy - Mangayarkarasi Nagrathinam

Speaker

10:05 – 10:20
Effect of ion-induced viscosity variations on nanoconfined hydration friction - Martin Munz

Speaker

10:20 – 10:45
Break

General

10:45 – 11:10
Nanoscale electromechanical characterisation of piezoelectric polymers using scanning probe microscopy techniques

Sohini Kar-Narayan - University of Cambridge

11:10 – 11:25
Quantitative Nanofriction of 2D Phosphorus Materials - Yuge Zhang

Speaker

11:25 – 11:40
Investigations of Microbiologically Influenced Corrosion via Scanning Probe Microscopy on Coatings and Surfaces - Treva Brown

Speaker

11:40 – 11:55
Wetting, adsorption, and desorption behaviour of polymers on surfaces studied by atomic force microscopy - Koutsos Vasileios

Speaker

11:55 – 12:00
Bruker: The Best of Both Worlds: the new ICON-IR

Techno Bite

12:00 – 12:05
ICAPPIC: Biological and material science applications of ICAPPIC SICM

Techno Bite

12:05 – 12:10
Park Systems: A paradigm shiK in AFM user experience: FX40 the fully automated AFM for nanoscale research

Techno Bite

12:10 – 13:30
Lunch & Exhibition

General

13:30 – 13:55
Selectivity in Excited State Mediated Single Molecule Reactions at Room Temperature

Kristina Rusimova - University of Bath

13:55 – 14:10
How low can you go? Piezoresponse force microscopy of Si Schottky diodes - Yonatan Calahorra

Speaker

14:10 – 14:25
Nanomechanical Probing of Confined Water in Graphene-Liquid Cells - Sanket Jugade

Speaker

14:25 – 14:40
Single-molecule mechanics on soft matter - Roland Bennewitz

Speaker

14:40 – 14:55
Nucleation and Growth of Water Nanodroplets on Solid Surface - Qian Liu

Speaker

14:55 – 15:20
Break

General

15:20 – 15:45
Intramolecular Force Mapping by Room Temperature NC-AFM and Automated Probe Conditioning for STM

Adam Sweetman - University of Leeds

15:45 – 16:00
Submolecular imaging and extrinsic activation of 2D polymerization on inert surfaces using atomic clusters - Sam Jarvis

Speaker

16:00 – 16:15
Probing Localised Corrosion Using Dynamic SPM - Stacy Moore

Speaker

16:15 – 16:30
Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM) of vdW Materials for Discovery of Non-conventional Thermoelectricity - Oleg Kolosov

Speaker

16:30 – 16:45
Thermoelectrical properties of self-assembled molecular-scale junctions enhanced by quantum interference effects - Benjamin Robinson

Speaker

16:45 – 18:00
Poster Session & Drink Reception

General

19:00 – 20:00
Conference Dinner at St Mary's College - Sponsored by Nanosurf

General

Thursday 28 March
08:30 – 09:00
Arrival

General

09:00 – 09:25
Electrochemical Scanning Microwave Microscopy - probing the dynamics of the solid electrolyte interface with atto-ampere sensitivity from DC to GHz frequencies

Georg Gramse - Johannes Kepler University/Keysight Technologies

09:25 – 09:50
Machine Learning Analysis and Automation in High-resolution Scanning Probe Microscopy

Adam Foster - University of Aalto, Finland & Kanazawa University

09:50 – 10:05
Sub-wavelength focusing of mid-IR light using metal/diamond/metal campanile probe for ultra-broadband SPM - Rajasekhar Medapalli

Speaker

10:05 – 10:20
Shear Force Microwave Microscopy: Complex impedance imaging, and Single Entity Electrochemistry - Maxwell Sparey

Speaker

10:20 – 10:45
Break

General

10:45 – 11:10
Towards Seamless AFM Analysis

George Heath - University of Leeds

11:10 – 11:25
Functional development of high-speed atomic force microscopy - Feng-Yueh Chan

Speaker

11:25 – 11:40
Advancing Cell Analysis with Fluid Micro Cantilevers and Thermocouple Innovations - Angelo Gaitas

Speaker

11:40 – 11:55
Improving Topology Measurement in Scanning Probe Microscopy by Fusing Multiple Scan Direction Images - Subodh Bhosale

Speaker

11:55 – 12:10
Development of an analysis platform for interpretation of High-speed AFM data - Yui Kanaoka

Speaker

12:10 – 13:00
Lunch & Exhibition

General

13:00 – 13:20
A multiscale algorithm to drastically reduce computational times when simulating liquid/solid interaction at atomic resolution with realistic hydrodynamics effects

Sergey Karabasov - Queen Mary University of London

13:20 – 13:40
Anomalous nonlinear harmonics of vibrating solid-solid interface

Amir Payam - Ulster University

13:40 – 13:55
Investigating hydration structures in cellulose, chitin and peptide nanostructures through atomistic modeling and 3D-AFM - Fabio Priante

Speaker

13:55 – 14:10
A workflow for optimising single particle alignment in AFM imaging - Maya Tekchandani

Speaker

14:10 – 14:25
Autoencoders as Feature Extractors for STMBJ Data Analysis - Sam Harley

Speaker

14:25 – 14:30
Closing Remarks

General