{"id":3902,"date":"2015-06-29T14:41:22","date_gmt":"2015-06-29T11:41:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nanosensors.com\/blog\/spike-up-a-silicon-nitride-afm-tip-for-high-topography-biology-and-life-science-imaging\/"},"modified":"2023-03-15T14:54:27","modified_gmt":"2023-03-15T12:54:27","slug":"spike-up-a-silicon-nitride-afm-tip-for-high-topography-biology-and-life-science-imaging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/spike-up-a-silicon-nitride-afm-tip-for-high-topography-biology-and-life-science-imaging\/","title":{"rendered":"Spike up a Silicon Nitride AFM tip for high topography biology and life science imaging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Standard SiN AFM probes may have a lot of advantages for using them in your liquid cell measurements. But they also have their limits when it comes to high topographies on cells or other bio samples due to their relatively wide opening angle and the small 3\u00b5m tip height.<\/p>\n<p>By teaming up with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanotools.com\/\">nanotools<\/a> in Germany NANOSENSORS is able to offer you a \u201cspiked-up\u201d AFM tip \u2013 a silicon nitride probe with a long (10 \u00b5m) spike made of high density carbon grown on top of it \u2013 called Biotool XXL.<\/p>\n<p>Customized versions such as other tip lengths or other cantilevers are also possible.<\/p>\n<p>For more information please have a look at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/pdf\/SpecialDevelopmentsList.pdf\">NANOSENSORS special developments list<\/a> or contact us at info@nanosensors.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_670\" style=\"width: 1034px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/biotool_xxl-2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-670\" class=\"size-full wp-image-670\" src=\"https:\/\/nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/biotool_xxl-2.png\" alt=\"Biotool XXL AFM tip for high topography AFM imaging in biology\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" data-wp-pid=\"670\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-670\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Biotool_XXL_AFM_tip<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Standard SiN AFM probes may have a lot of advantages for using them in your liquid cell measurements. But they also have their limits when it comes to high topographies on cells or other bio samples due to their relatively wide opening angle and the small 3\u00b5m tip height. By teaming up with nanotools in&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/spike-up-a-silicon-nitride-afm-tip-for-high-topography-biology-and-life-science-imaging\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spike up a Silicon Nitride AFM tip for high topography biology and life science imaging<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15,16],"tags":[75,82,17,18,19,84,104,32,103,85,60,51,76],"class_list":["post-3902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inside-nanosensors","category-science-technology","tag-afm","tag-afm-cantilever","tag-afm-probes","tag-afm-tips","tag-atomic-force-microscopy","tag-biology","tag-ebd-tip","tag-high-aspect-ratio","tag-high-density-carbon","tag-life-sciences","tag-scanning-probe-microscopy","tag-special-development-list","tag-spm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nanosensors.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}