A Forecast of Developments in Scanned Probe Microscopy

Vincent Craig is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Australian National University. He completed both his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at the ANU before postdoctoral positions at UC Davis and the University of Newcastle. He was awarded an ARC Postdoctoral fellowship in 1998 and is currently an ARC Research Fellow. His research interests include the direct measurement of surface forces both quasistatic and dynamic, interfacial adsorption of surfactants and polymers, boundary slip in Newtonian solutions and bubble coalescence in electrolyte solutions. He has considerable experience in the development of scientific instrumentation including the building and modification of SPMs.

Tim Senden is an Associate Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics at the Australian National University. He completed both his B.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees at the ANU before postdoctoral positions at the Collège de France, Institut Charles Sadron and UNSW (ADFA). He was awarded an ARC Postdoctoral Fellowship in 1997 and is currently an ARC Research Fellow. His research interests include force measurements of single molecules, colloidal forces, and the use of fluorescence techniques with the AFM. He has constructed an X-ray micro-tomography facility and is part of an active group using the technique in porous and disordered materials. His activities in the use of nanoparticles for the detection of blood clots has recently spun into a company.