Goal: To increase the imaging speed of the AFM to the core timescales of biomolecular activity: the microsecond.

Approach 1: To push the limits of the HS-AFM

Approach 2: novel AFM architectures

Finding ways to bring together the capabilities of HS-AFM (label-free, sub-second high resolution imaging, and mechanical sensing and manipulation) with the capabilities of OM (recognition of molecular species, molecular interactions and biochemical-biophysical conditions)