Research

Life Sciences & Biotechnology

Title :

Development of force-distance curve based Atomic Force Microscope for multi-parametric Imaging of Biological Systems

Area of research :

Engineering Sciences, Life Sciences & Biotechnology

Focus area :

Microscopy

Principal Investigator :

Vikash Chandra, Scientist, CSIR-Central Scientific Instruments Organisation (CSIR-CSIO), Chandigarh

Timeline Start Year :

2020

Timeline End Year :

2022

Contact info :

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Executive Summary :

Objective: To develop a portable force-distance curve based Atomic Force Microscope which will be used for multiperametric Imaging of Biological Systems; To develop a robust software with user friendly GUI for operating and controlling the AFM ; To test validate the scan images obtained from AFM with different standard samples.

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