Droplet Morphology at Nanometer Scale

Condensed Matter Physics and Materials Science Department, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York 11973, USA checco bnl.gov 

Nanoscale Liquid Interfaces Wetting, Patterning, and Force Microscopy at the Molecular Scale 

Edited by Thierry Ondarguhu and Jean-Pierre Aime 

2 Imaging of Nanoscale Drops by AFM Time Line of Achievements 

Simultaneously to the development of the IC-AM imaging mode, a variant of the NC-AM mode that uses long-range electrostatic forces—rather than van der Waals forces—was introduced by Hu 

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The majority of experimental studies of droplet morphology at nanometer scale have focused on substrates that are as close as possible to the ideal case of atomically smooth and chemically homogenous surfaces. 

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