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John E Sader1,2, Barry D Hughes3, Ferdinand Huber4

  • 1ARC Centre of Excellence in Exciton Science, The University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. jsader@unimelb.edu.au.

Nature Nanotechnology
|December 8, 2018
PubMed
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Atomic force microscopy routinely measures interatomic forces. However, rapidly varying force laws, common in nature, can corrupt these atomic force microscope measurements, impacting scientific accuracy.

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