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Viscoelastic Property Mapping with Contact Resonance Force Microscopy

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Jason P. Killgore, Donna C. Hurley, Dalia Yablon, Joseph Turner, Philip Yuya, Roger Proksch, Anil Gannepalli, Andy Tsou

Abstract

We demonstrate accurate nanoscale mapping of loss and storage modulus on a polystyrene-polypropylene blend with contact resonance force microscopy (CR-FM). The viscoelastic properties are extracted from spatially resolved maps of the contact resonance frequency and quality factor of the AFM cantilever. We consider two methods of data acquisition: pixel-by-pixel point mapping and continuous scanning. With point mapping and low-velocity scanning, the relative loss and storage modulus values are in good agreement with time-temperature superposition of low-frequency dynamic mechanical analysis measurements to the high frequencies probed by CR-FM.
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Langmuir
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Keywords

Atomic Force Microscopy, AFM, Contact Resonance Force Microscopy, Viscoelasticity
Polymers and Nanometrology

Citation

Killgore, J. , Hurley, D. , , D. , Turner, J. , Yuya, P. , Proksch, R. , Gannepalli, A. and Tsou, A. (2011), Viscoelastic Property Mapping with Contact Resonance Force Microscopy, Langmuir, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=909102 (Accessed October 18, 2025)

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Created November 4, 2011, Updated February 19, 2017
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