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About SPMConnect

SPMConnect is an annual AFM-based conference to foster and support the AFM community in terms of idea exchange, best practices development, mentoring, and career development. In addition to research talks, in line with the industrial/innovation theme of the broader TCW meeting, SPMConnect will feature panel discussions and plenty of opportunities for AFM researchers and scientists to meet, network and exchange ideas.

This conference aims to bring together users from a wide variety of disciplines including polymer science, biology, energy, computing, materials science, and more who share an interest in SPM as an instrument to explore nanoscale phenomena and characterization. SPMConnect aims to include scientists and researchers from a wide variety of backgrounds including industry, instrumentation vendors, academia, and national labs. Technical abstracts for both oral and poster presentation are welcomed with topics for SPMConnect listed below.

Submit your Abstract - due October 24

Please first review the information for authors — abstract submission guidelines.


Topics & Application Areas
  • Nanomechanical measurements on soft materials
  • SPM in biology and medicine
  • AI/ML methods for SPM measurement, acquisition, image processing
  • High speed/high resolution SPM
  • Multimodal SPM-based methods
  • Industrial / real world applications
  • SPM for Energy Applications
  • FluidFM
  • Other
 

Symposium Co-Chairs


Nina Balke

Nina Balke

Associate Professor

North Carolina State University

Richard Sheridan

Richard Sheridan

Research Scientist

Duke University


Marti Checa Nualart

Marti Checa Nualart

R&D Staff Scientist

Oak Ridge National Laboratory


Key Speakers


Ricardo Garcia

Ricardo Garcia

Keynote Speaker, Professor

Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid CSIC, Spain

Hanna Cho

Hanna Cho

Associate Professor

Ohio State


Yongtao Liu

Yongtao Liu

R&D Staff

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Xiaoji Xu

Xiaoji Xu

Associate Professor

Lehigh University


Prathima Nalam

Prathima Nalam

Associate Professor

University of Buffalo

Roger Proksch

Roger Proksch

Chief Technology Officer

Oxford Instruments


Cassandra Phillips

Cassandra Phillips

Product Manager

Bruker

Hansol Lee

Hansol Lee

Senior Research Engineer

3M



 
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2025 Symposium Sessions

Monday June 9

10:30SPMConnect: Cells, Biomolecules, and Biomaterials I
1:30SPM Applications in Material Discovery
4:00SPM Connect - Posters

Tuesday June 10

9:00SPM Nanomechanical Measurements
10:30SPMConnect Panel Discussion: Advancing Temporal & Spatial Resolution for SPM
1:30SPMConnect: Cells, Biomolecules, and Biomaterials II
3:00SPMConnect: Novel Methods

2025 Symposium Program

Monday June 9

10:30SPMConnect: Cells, Biomolecules, and Biomaterials ILone Star G
Session chair: Jinhui Tao, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US
Nonclasscial mechanisms of inhibition of beta-hematin crystallization inform strategies to suppress blood-stage malaria parasites
H.-J. Lee, H. Azargoshasb, P.G. Vekilov, University of Houston, US
Probing bacterial elastomers, rewritable microfluidics and EUV resist development
P. Ashby, D. Li, Y. Chai, L. Long, J. Chen, C. Ajo-Franklin, T. Russell, P. Naulleau, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US
Gel Front Nanomechanics in Photopolymer Hydrogels
J.P. Killgore, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US
1:30SPM Applications in Material DiscoveryRoom 304
Session chair: Filippo Mangolini, University of Texas at Austin, US
Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy of Moiré Electrostatic Potential on Twisted Hexagonal Boron Nitride Multilayers
N. Austin-Bingamon, M. Goodman, R. Dominguez, R. Mayorga-Luna, D.S. Kim, K.P. Lee, K. Watanabe, T. Taniguchi, X.E. Li, Y. Miyahara, Texas State University, US
*STUDENT ABSTRACT WINNER* Employing Atomic Force Microscopy as a Tool for the Localized Patterning of Graphene
E.J. Broker Jr., R. Davenport, J.D. Batteas, Texas A&M University, US
AFM-IR development for applications in industrial research
H.L. Lechuga, E. Imbertson, C.K. Spicer, 3M Company, US
Application of scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy imaging to emerging material systems
M. Jones, University of Texas at Austin, US
Force-induced Structural Transformation of F14H20 Superstructures
M-H Choi, H. Noh, S.B. Kaemmer, Park Systems inc., US
4:00SPM Connect - PostersJW Grand Ballroom
Frequency and Damping Noise of a Mechanical Resonator with Optomechanically Modified Effective Quality Factor
M.M. Hasan, N. Austin-Bingamon, D.C. Binod, Y. Miyahara, Texas State University, US
Interfacial Water Layers on the Hydrated Silica Surface under Water
Y. Cai, J. Melendez-Rivera, J.D. Batteas, Texas A&M University, US
Mechanical Characterization of MAP Hydrogel for Soft Tissue Repair Applications
M. Motezaker, E. Tiernan, J. Daniero, P.E. Hopkins, University of Virginia, US

Tuesday June 10

9:00SPM Nanomechanical MeasurementsLone Star G
Session chair: Jason Killgore, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US
Understanding cantilever motion in sub-resonance photothermal force curves for improved nanomechanical measurements on viscoelastic polymers
A. Deolia, A. Raman, R. Wagner, Purdue University, US
Rapid nanomechanical mapping with photothermally actuated atomic force microscopy
J.D. Adams, H. Gunstheimer, G. Fläschner, H. Hölschner, B. Hoogenboom, Nanosurf, CH
A high-fidelity, labeled dataset for soft viscoelastic AFM nanomechanical properties
R.J. Sheridan, I. Saito, L.C. Brinson, Duke University, US
Improving AFM Young’s Modulus Measurements with Indentation Informed Bounds for Tip Geometry Fitting
L.J. Kirsch, J. Killgore, G.J. Rodin, F. Mangolini, University of Texas at Austin, US
Exploring the effect of topological confinement in polymer nanocomposite via AFM nanomechanical mapping
I. Saito, R.J. Sheridan, D. French, S. Zauscher, L.C. Brinson, Duke University, US
10:30SPMConnect Panel Discussion: Advancing Temporal & Spatial Resolution for SPMLone Star G
Session chair: Paul Ashby, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US
G. Haugstad, University of Minnesota, US
J. Killgore, National Institute of Standards and Technology, US
L. Collins, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
1:30SPMConnect: Cells, Biomolecules, and Biomaterials IILone Star G
Session chair: Filippo Mangolini, University of Texas at Austin, US
The FluidFM® Technology in Temporally Resolved Single Cell Transcriptomics, Genome Engineering, and Beyond
A. Kerjouan, S. Mailand, A. Migenda, K. Keevend, T. Ypma, S. Connolly, L. Rizzo, R. Lafleur, M. Milla, D. Ossola, T.A. Beyer, Cytosurge, CH
Non-Contact Charge Transfer Measurement of DNA Nano-Devices utilizing AFM
R. Luna, D. Runsewe, N. Austin-Bingamon, D.C. Binod, T. Betancourt, Y. Miyahara, Texas State University, US
High-speed atomic force microscopy: A structural and dynamic tool for visualizing single-molecule biological processes
Y.C. Lin, University of Texas at Austin, US
Nanoinjection of extracellular vesicles to single live cells by robotic fluidic force microscopy
K.D. Kovács, T. Visnovitz, T. Gerecsei, B. Peter, S. Kurunczi, A. Koncz, K. Németh, D. Lenzinger, K.V. Vukman, A. Balogh, I. Rajmon, P. Lőrincz, I. Székács, E.I. Buzás, R. Horvath, HUN-REN Centre for Energy Research, HU
3:00SPMConnect: Novel MethodsLone Star G
Session chair: Filippo Mangolini, University of Texas at Austin, US
Tracking charge dynamics by high speed and time resolved Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy
L. Collins, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US
High-resolution mapping of chemical, electrical and mechanical properties via gated sub-resonant intermittent contact AFM
B. Pittenger, C. Li, S. Hu, P. De Wolf, Bruker, US
Depth integration of signal in photothermal AFM-IR and complementary methods
G. Haugstad, Univ. of Minnesota, US
Breaking the Optical Diffraction Limit with SPM: an Overview of nanoIR Capabilities
C.A. Phillips, Q. Hu, C. Li, P. De Wolf, Bruker Nano, US

 

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