I figured that you would recognize the leap forward, and maybe
few others ... and we do have some scientists here!!! -- j
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This is actually a pretty major advance for atomic force microscopy that I had just added to my Materials Characterization Lab coursepack on Monday. AFM is typically limited to just topography. This innovation adds an elemental analysis capability to the topography at a level of detail that can't be achieved otherwise without the high vacuum of a TEM. AFM can be done in situ (in the environment that the sample would be functioning under), so this is a major advance.