The Natural History Museum in London has announced that its mineralogy department has acquired Asylum Research's MFP-3D stand-alone atomic force microscope (AFM) to study nanomaterials.
The focus of the research, led by Dr Eva Valsami-Jones, is the evaluation of the fundamental physical and chemical properties of nanoparticles to assess how these properties change as particle size decreases, the links between natural minerals and manufactured nanoparticles, and the implications for human health, other organisms, and the natural world.
'We chose Asylum's MFP-3D AFM because we found it to be the most powerful and easy to use AFM available,' said Valsami-Jones.
'It is the only system capable of imaging complex samples with very rough topographies at the nanoscale, and we were impressed by its excellent optics for locating areas of interest for AFM scanning.
'Sample loading and unloading and tip exchange are faster and more intuitive, and the post-data collection processing capabilities are excellent,' he added.
