The second International Conference on Manipulation, Manu-facturing and Measurement on the Nanoscale (3M-NANO 2012) was successfully held on 29 August - 1 September 2012 in Xi’an, China.

http://3m-nano.org

Professor Stefan Dimov from the University of Birmingham, UK, visited CNM today. He is the leader of the European Network of Excellence in Multi-Material Micro Manufacture (4M).

http://www.4m-net.org/

http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/staff/profiles/mechanical/dimov-stefan.aspx

2012.08.24

A Summer Academic Forum on miniaturization, micro and nano technologies, organized by President Huadong Yu of Changchun University of Science and Technology, was held on the campus for two days. About 80 university staff members and research students participated in the forum.

Dr Renxi Qiu, a senior research fellow from the School of Engineering of Cardiff University (CU), UK, visited CNM on 8-11 August. Dr Qiu is the coordinator of the EU SRS project, and CU is a partner of the EU FP7 LaserNaMi project (2010-2013).

http://srs-project.eu/consortium

Professor Franck Chollet, from the Micro Nano Sciences and Systems Department (MN2S) of FEMTO-ST Institute, France, visited CNM today. FEMTO-ST is a partner of the EU FP7 ECNANOMAN project (2011-2014).

http://www.femto-st.fr/en/Research-departments/MN2S/Presentation/

2012.08.07

High-speed AFM

As part of a series of recently published papers, a team from the University of Bristol, UK, can now explain the dynamics of a cantilever in contact-mode high-speed atomic force microscopy (HSAFM) using both experimental and theoretical results. The group’s HSAFM is capable of imaging at frame rates in excess of 1200 fps in air and liquid environments.