AFM has various meanings in the Medical category. Discover the full forms, definitions, and usage contexts of AFM in Medical.
An instrument that uses atomic forces between a sample and a sharp scanning needle tip to image surfaces to molecular accuracy by mechanically probing their surface contours; the AFM measures the tiny upward and downward motions of the tip as the tip is dragged over the surface, producing an atomic-resolution topographic map of the surface. The AFM has also been used to physically manipulate individual molecules.
MedicalAntiferromagnetic materials in which the internal magnetic moments line up antiparallel, resulting in permeabilities slightly greater than unity; unlike paramagnetic substances, these materials exhibit hysteresis and have a Curie temperature. Examples include man-ganese oxide, nickel oxide, and ferrous sul-fide.
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