An iron filled carbon nanotube (FeCNT), a 10-40 nm ferromagnetic nanowire enclosed in a protective carbon tube, is an attractive candidate for a magnetic force microscopy (MFM) probe as it provides a mechanically and chemically robust, nanoscale probe. We demonstrate the probe's capabilities with images of the magnetic field gradients close to the surface of a Py dot in both the multi-domain an...

Polymeric micelles are emerging as a highly integrated nanoplatform for cancer targeting, drug delivery and tumor imaging applications. In this study, we describe a multifunctional micelle (MFM) system that is encoded with a lung cancer-targeting peptide (LCP), and encapsulated with superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) and doxorubicin (Doxo) for MR imaging and therapeutic delivery, respectively....

This work is a text-book for senior and magistracy students, dedicated to one of the most modern solid-state body surface research techniques – Scanning Probe Microscopy (SPM). The book considers the basic SPM types: Scanning Tunnel Microscopy (STM), Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), Electric Force Microscopy (EFM), Magnetic Force Microscopy (MFM), Near-field Optical Microscopy (NOM), which have f...

In this work we present a method for tip-sample distance control in probe microscopy and probe recording by using field emission current detection as a feedback signal. Field emission currents flow when a large enough electric field is applied between the probe tip and the recording medium. The current varies exponentially with the applied electric field, which in turn is more or less proportio...

OBJECTIVE To validate a useful version of the Motor Function Measure (MFM) in children with neuromuscular diseases aged <7 years old. DESIGN Two prospective cohort studies that documented the MFM completion of children aged between 2 and 7 years old. SETTING French-speaking rehabilitation departments from France, Belgium, and Switzerland. PARTICIPANTS Healthy children (n=194) and children...

An accurate quantification of magnetic force microscope images has been accomplished. The magnetosomes produced by magnetotactic bacteria, an ideal micromagnetic model system, were the specimens used for the quantification (a moment on the order of 10 IJ emu). Magnetic force microscopes (MFMs) are a variant of the non-contact AFM in which magnetic fields have been imaged with submicron resoluti...

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are usually synthesized using a single type of metal ion, and MOFs containing mixtures of different metal ions are of great interest and represent a methodology to enhance and tune materials properties. We report the synthesis of [Ga2(OH)2(L)] (H4L = biphenyl-3,3',5,5'-tetracarboxylic acid), designated as MFM-300(Ga2), (MFM = Manchester Framework Material replaci...

HAZOP studies are widely accepted in chemical and petroleum industries as the method for conducting process hazard analysis related to design, maintenance and operation of the systems. In this paper, a HAZOP reasoning method based on function-oriented modelling, multilevel flow modelling (MFM) is extended with function roles to complete HAZOP studies in principle. A graphical MFM editor, which ...

The minimal fractal manifold (MFM) defines a space-time continuum endowed with arbitrarily small deviations from four-dimensions 4 , ( D     << 1). It was recently shown that MFM is a natural consequence of the Renormalization Group which brings up a series of unforeseen solutions to the challenges raised by the Standard Model. In this brief report we argue that MFM may be treated as asympt...

As the advance of technology, the manufacturing process of materials has moved forward from the scale of micrometer to sub-micrometer and nanometer. Combining nanotechnology and traditional magnetic materials, nanoscale magnetic materials can be created for applications in biomedical examination and therapy as well as data recording to increase the storage space of a computer. The topic of usin...