What are some interesting but challenging/useful experiments to do with a class of master’s students for AFM in air?

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Ideally involving the need to calculate significant values and take into account a variety of parameters

Current plan is phase, amplitude and height imaging on mica, glass, hopg and calibration gratings in tapping mode

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