Asylum Research Cypher AFM and MFP-3D-BIO AFM

Asylum Research has delivered a dual system order for a Cypher AFM and an MFP-3D-BIO AFM to the University of Melbourne’s Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering. Dr Raymond Dagastine’s group will use the AFMs to develop nanoscale experiments and theories to measure and predict interactions, collisions and coalescence between droplets and bubbles that underpin innovative applications of foams and emulsions and other soft matter materials. The approach provides a ‘front seat’ view of how drops or bubbles collide in solution, and how the physical mechanisms are dependent on the types of molecules coating their interfaces.

Dr Dagastine commented, “We chose the combination of the Asylum MFP-3D and Cypher AFMs for their visionary design and stability, the cross compatibility of the software and the ease of implementing specialised user controls and inputs. This, coupled with Asylum’s superior technical support makes the MFD-3D-BIO and Cypher the ideal combination of instruments for high-end research and surface characterisation on the nanoscale. These outstanding AFMs will allow us an unprecedented opportunity to visualise the interactions and surfaces in soft matter materials through high-resolution imagining on the nano to molecular scale, as well as cutting-edge force measurements on the nanoscale with integration of a variety of optical characterisation methods.