Nanoscale VI Conference
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DAY 0 | Tue 8 July

16.00 - 20.00
Registration (Maritim proArte Hotel)

DAY 1 | Wed. 9 July

Location: Maritim proArte Hotel
Conference: Hall BC (first floor)
Posters: Hall II (first floor), in front of Hall BC
08.00 - 12.00
Registration
12.00
Snack/lunch
13.00
Start of the conference (Hall BC)
13.00
Introduction
13.05
Conference Chairman
Jürgen P. Rabe
Humboldt University Berlin, Department of Physics, Berlin, Germany


SESSION I
Extending the limits of SPM: high speed scanning, ultra high resolution imaging,
multiple probe SPM, novel probes
13.10
Keynote: Toshio Ando
Kanazawa University, Kanazawa, Japan
Dynamic biomolecular processes revealed by high-speed AFM
13.40
Session chair: Georg Schitter
TU Delft, Delft, The Netherlands
Instrumentation for the next generation of AFMs
14.05
Chanmin Su
Veeco Instruments, Santa Barbara, USA
High resolution AFM imaging and mechanical mapping in fluid
14.25
Nataliya Dorozhovets
TU Ilmenau, Ilmenau, Germany
Metrological scanning probe microscopy for long-range traceable measurements
14.45
Coffee break / Posters (Foyer – Hall II)
15.45
Invited speaker: Oscar Custance
National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, Japan
Force spectroscopy based single atom chemical identification
16.15
Jose R. Lozano
CSIC, Tres cantos, Madrid, Spain
Theory of multifrequency Atomic Force Microscopy
16.35
Nicholas Mullin
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, United Kingdom
Torsional resonance Atomic Force Microscopy in water
16.55
Claudia Baier
Technische Universität München (TUM), Garching, Germany
Scanning Electrochemical Potential Microscopy (SECPM) for the investigation of electrode surfaces
17.15
Break / Posters (Foyer – Hall II)
18.00 - 21.00
Poster session / Snack buffet (Hall II)


DAY 2 | Thu. 10 July



SESSION II
From single biomolecules to cells: using AFM and combined AFM-optical

08.00
Breakfast (Hall II)
09.00
Keynote: Daniel Müller
BIOTEC, Dresden, Germany
Characterizing the interactions that modulate the functional state of single
proteins at sub-molecular resolution
09.30
Session chair: Hans Oberleithner
Universitat Muenster, Muenster, Germany
Endothelial cells as salt sensors
09.55
Hua Liang
Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Time-dependent rupture of single double-stranded DNA
10.15
Tomoji Kawai
Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Single-molecule sequencing of deoxyribonucleic acid using scanning tunneling microscopy
10.35
Thomas Schmid
ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Investigation of biomolecules and biological nanostructures using a combined
AFM-CLSM-Raman setup and Tip-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (TERS)
11.05
Coffee break / Posters (Foyer – Hall II)
11.30
Invited speaker: Clive Roberts
School of Pharmacy, The University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
Single molecule imaging and force spectroscopy of biomolecular complexes and nanostructures
12.00
Annalisa Relini
University of Genoa, Genoa, Italy
Protein aggregation into amyloid protofibrils involves populations with different physical properties
12.20
Nikolay Buzhynskyy
Institut Curie, Paris, France
A comparative AFM study of healthy and pathological eye lens membranes
12.40
Lunch buffet / Posters (« Galerie » Restaurant, Maritim proArte Hotel)


SESSION III
Next generation materials and polymer systems
14.00
Keynote: Jiro Kumaki
Yamagata University, Yamagata, Japan
High-resolution Atomic Force Microscopy of two-dimensional polymer systems
14.30
Session chair: G.J. Vancso
Universiteit Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
Accounts of recent progress in AFM of polymers
14.55
Christiane Norenberg
University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Atomic-scale studies on the growth of Palladium and Nickel on GaN(0001)
15.15
Andrey Klymchenko
University Luis Pasteur, Strasbourg, France
Directing the assembly of charged organic molecules by a hydrophilic-hydrophobic nanostructured
monolayers at electrified interfaces: EC-STM study
15.35
Coffee break / Posters (Foyer – Hall II)
16.30
Invited speaker: Christian Fretigny
CNRS, Paris, France
Adhesion, friction and deformations at a nanometric scale on polymeric systems
17.00
Clemens Liedel
Universität Bayreuth, Bayreuth, Germany
Behavior of an ABC triblock copolymer in the presence of a high electric field
observed with quasi in-situ SFM
17.20
Robert Magerle
Technische Universität Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Three-dimensional microstructure and micromechanics of elastomeric polypropylene
17.40
Jacob Sagiv
Weizmann Institute, Rehovot, Israel
Wetting driven self-assembly on patterned monolayer templates: combining SFM with optical
and FTIR microscopy
18.00 – 19.00
Coffee break / Posters (Foyer – Hall II)
19.45
Meeting in the entrance hall
Departure for Gala dinner (walking distance from Maritim proArte Hotel)
20.00 – 23.00
Gala Dinner on a boat
23.00
Back to Maritim proArte Hotel

DAY 3 | Fri. 11 July


SESSION IV
Beyond topography: measurement of physical properties at the Nanoscale
-nanomechanical, electrical, optical, magnetic and thermal

8.00
Breakfast (Hall II)
09.00
Keynote: Wilfried Vandervorst
IMEC, Leuven, Belgium and Dept. Physics, KULeuven, Belgium
Probing electrical properties of semiconductor structures on the nm-scale
09.30
Session chair: Robert W. Stark
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Muenchen, Munich, Germany
Multiple frequencies, multiple properties: towards comprehensive material characterization
09.55
Patrick Fiorenza
CNR-IMM, Catania, Italy
Scanning impendance microscopy for colossal permittivity local mapping in inhomogeneous
materials
10.15
Natalia Erina
Veeco Instruments, Santa Barbara, USA
Nanoscale mechanical mapping using multiple orders of tapping harmonics
10.35
Coffee break / Posters (Foyer – Hall II)
11.30
Invited speaker: Ozgur Sahin
Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
Quantitative nanomechanical measurements at the microsecond timescale in air and
liquid environments
12.00
Carlos J. Gomez
CSIC, Tres Cantos, Madrid, Spain
Molecular energy-dissipating processes in T6 monolayers
12.20
Tim Albrecht
Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom
Redox-mediated charge transport and electrochemistry on single molecules
12.40
Doerthe Melitta Eisele
Humboldt University Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Polarized resolved near-field scanning optical microscopy studies of single tubular J-aggregates
13.00
End of the conference

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