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Protein images obtained by STM, AFM and TEM

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Scanning tunnelling microscopy and atomic force microscopy, one scanning the tunnelling current and the other the repulsive atomic force between sample and probe, can give high-quality surface topographies of proteins, which have been difficult to obtain by more conventional methods such as transmission electron microscopy.

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    Hideo Arakawa, Kazuo Umemura & Atsushi Ikai

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Arakawa, H., Umemura, K. & Ikai, A. Protein images obtained by STM, AFM and TEM. Nature 358, 171–173 (1992). https://doi.org/10.1038/358171a0

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