Richard Superfine

Richard Superfine Richard Superfine is a professor in the Department of Physics and Astronomy, and an adjunct professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He received a B.S. from Lehigh University in 1982, and a Ph.D. from the University of California at Berkeley in 1991. Dr. Superfine\'s research interests are primarily in the areas of condensed matter physics, biophysics, and microscopy. He studies the nanoscale properties of molecules, nanotubes, molecular motors, DNA, viruses and cells. He develops and applies new techniques for these studies using optical, scanning probe, electron and magnetic force microscopes. Current experiments probe the ultimate scales for machinery and devices in nanotechnology, including atomic scale gears and devices powered with biological molecular motors. Dr. Superfine collaborates with the School of Education in an outreach project that brings remote manipulation microscopy to K12 students. With the Department of Computer Science, he has developed a Virtual-Reality enhanced interface for scanning probe microscopy, the "nanoManipulator," now sold by 3rdTech, Inc. and the winner of an R&D 100 award in 2001

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