Author(s):
1. Ljubiša Petrov, Inovacioni centar Mašinskog fakulteta u Beogradu, Serbia
2. Lidija Matija, Mašinski fakultet Univerziteta u Beogradu, Serbia

Abstract:
One of the most perspective available technique for investigation of the composition, structure and properties of materials, is scanning probe microscopy (SPM), respectively its components scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM). The advantage of the method is that they have no restrictions related to origin and composition of the material, and its possibilities to investigate vide variety of materials. This technique is used in multidisciplinary research in the field of medicine, pharmacy, dentistry, material science, etc., for study of biological samples, chemical compounds, pharmaceutical products, artificial tissues, implantology materials, and all other materials that have nanotechnological impact on application in these scientific fields. However, images obtained by AFM represent only approximation of the sample surfaces. This is because the probes have not perfect size and geometry, which leads to the appearance of artifacts. They are defined as characteristics that appear on the image and are not present on the sample. These effects caused by convolutions between the probe and sample can be corrected to a certain extent by mathematical manipulation of topographic data. The methodology used in this paper is based on algebra of sets, and basic tools of mathematical morphology. Mathematical algorithms for the "blind reconstruction" of the tip were used, and then in order to detect the parts of the sample surface which is not available in real-time scanning deconvolution was applied. The limit of the real probe tip is calculated from the image, using the morphological limitations inherent in the recording process. The result acuired as an image of the reconstructed surface out of the used images, with the reconstruction of the real tip.

Key words:
SPM,STM,AFM,biomedicine,nanotechnology,tip-sample convolution,artifacts,surface reconstruction

Thematic field:
SYMPOSIUM B - Biomaterials and nanomedicine

Date of abstract submission:
18.07.2019.

Conference:
Contemporary Materials 2019 - Savremeni Materijali