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Single molecules feel the force

03 Sep 1999

Biophysicists are now able to study a whole host of living processes with unprecedented accuracy thanks to a microscope normally associated with surface science

1 Tools of the trade An atomic force microscope (AFM) comprises a sharp tip about 10–10 m in diame

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Manfred Radmacher is in the Lehrstuhl für Angewandte Physik at Ludwig­Maximilians Universität, D-80799 Munich, Germany
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