Scientists have developed a way to measure the wear and degradation of the microscopic ... and delicate nanoscale measurements done with atomic force microscopy. Scientists at the National ...

By applying the lessons learned from this and other such success stories, the researchers are attempting to identify, and then eliminate, the atomic and molecular origins of wear. If they reach their ...

essentially atomic scale resolution. The technique, called contact resonance force microscopy, is described in a paper recently published in the journal Small ("Continuous measurement of AFM tip wear ...