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Fabrication of fluid-compatible trilayer cantilevers with integrated piezoelectric actuators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Georg Fantner, Damien Maillard, Nahid Hosseini, Matthias Neuenschwander, Mustafa Kangül

Microcantilevers are popular transducers thanks to their simple design and a high sensitivity. In many applications, the cantilevers need to be actuated, either to induce a controlled deflection or to excite the resonance. This can be achieved with integra ...

2025

Data-driven control in atomic force microscopy using a genetic algorithm

Alireza Karimi, Georg Fantner

Increasing the scanning speed in Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) relies on improving the tracking performance in the vertical direction of motion. The lightly damped resonances of piezo-actuators utilized in AFM nano-positioning stages hinder the maximum ach ...

2025

Controlled Sensing of User-Defined Aptamer-Based Targets Using Scanning Ionic Conductance Spectroscopy

Aleksandra Radenovic, Georg Fantner, Lely Feletti, Marcos Penedo Garcia, Wayne Yang Wen Wei, Barney Frederick Drake, Helena Miljkovic, Zahra Ayar Dulabi

Solid-state nanopores offer the possibility of detecting disease biomarkers in early diagnostic applications. Standard approaches harness fingerprinting, where protein targets are bound to DNA carriers and detected in free translocation with a solid-state ...

2025

Interface flexibility controls the nucleation and growth of supramolecular networks

Georg Fantner, Maartje Martina Cornelia Bastings, Navid Asmari Saadabad, Cem Tekin, Veronika Cencen, Vincenzo Caroprese

Supramolecular networks are abundantly present in nature and, like crystalline materials, often develop from an initial nucleation site, followed by growth based on directional interactions between components. Traditionally, the binding strength and direct ...

2025

Deep learning for enhancement of low-resolution and noisy scanning probe microscopy images

Georg Fantner, Marcos Penedo Garcia

In this study, we employed traditional methods and deep learning models to improve resolution and quality of low-resolution AFM images made under standard ambient scanning. Both traditional methods and deep learning models were benchmarked and quantified r ...

Beilstein Institut2025

Lattice bond chains administer kink anisotropy and inform strategies of theophylline crystal self-healing

Georg Fantner

How molecular-level understanding of the crystal growth mechanisms and their relation to lattice bonds informs the rational design of crystals with desired shapes and properties has remained elusive. Here we employ theophylline crystals and drive them into ...

2025

A hermetically closed sample chamber enables time-lapse nano-characterization of pathogenic microorganisms in vitro

Georg Fantner, John McKinney, Navid Asmari Saadabad, Santiago Harald Andany

Pathogenic microorganisms, such as pathogenic mycobacteria, pose a global health burden. Studying these organisms is crucial for gaining detailed knowledge about the pathogens and the diseases they cause. To handle pathogenic organisms, specific biosafety ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

Antimicrobial peptides selectively target malaria parasites by a cholesterol-dependent mechanism

Georg Fantner, Marcos Penedo Garcia, Navid Asmari Saadabad

Hundreds of thousands die annually from malaria caused by Plasmodium falciparum (Pf), with the emergence of drug-resistant parasites hindering eradication efforts. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are known for their ability to disrupt pathogen membranes with ...

2025

Enhanced feedback performance in off-resonance AFM modes through pulse train sampling

Georg Fantner, Marcos Penedo Garcia, Navid Asmari Saadabad, Santiago Harald Andany, Mustafa Kangül

Dynamic atomic force microscopy (AFM) modes that operate at frequencies far away from the resonance frequency of the cantilever (off-resonance tapping (ORT) modes) can provide high-resolution imaging of a wide range of sample types, including biological sa ...

Beilstein-Institut2024

Open-source microscope add-on for structured illumination microscopy

Theo Lasser, Matthias Lütolf, Aleksandra Radenovic, Andrew Charles Oates, Georg Fantner, John McKinney, Nathan Cyprien Arsène Ronceray, Olivier François Venzin, Antonius Chrisnandy, Prabhu Prasad Swain

Super-resolution techniques expand the abilities of researchers who have the knowledge and resources to either build or purchase a system. This excludes the part of the research community without these capabilities. Here we introduce the openSIM add-on to ...

Nature Portfolio2024