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Nature Nanotechnology 3, 461 - 462 (2008)
doi:10.1038/nnano.2008.222
Subject Categories: Nanometrology and instrumentation | Nanoparticles | Surface patterning and imaging
Probe microscopy: Scanning below the cell surface
Ozgur Sahin1
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Ozgur Sahin is at the Rowland Institute at Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142 USA
e-mail: sahin@rowland.harvard.edu
Abstract
Conventional atomic force microscopy probes only the surface of specimens. A related technique called scanning near-field ultrasonic holography can now image nanoparticles buried below the surfaces of cells, which could prove useful in nanotoxicology.
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