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Zamora (Spain), July 4 (EFE).- The physicist from the Swiss University of Basel Christoph Gerber, co-inventor of the atomic force microscope developed from the scanning probe or tunneling technique, warned that, like The milestone that this instrument represented for the development of nanotechnology, in the near future another "exponential milestone" will occur with the combination of nanotechnology and artificial intelligence. Microscopio Atomico
Gerber, who is participating in Zamora (Spain) in the Fuerzas y Túnel conference, which brings together 140 microscopists and researchers mainly from universities and scientific institutes in Spain and Portugal, gave an interview to EFE in which he highlighted the progress that the scanning probe microscopy, a kind of scanner of the nanoworld with applications in different scientific fields.
-How has scanning probe microscopy, discovered four decades ago, contributed to the advancement of technology?
-It has had a tremendous impact because this type of microscopic view goes further and has a transversal effect on different disciplines such as physics, biology, chemistry or medicine.There are different applications and the impact is dramatic because the sensitivity, the precision of the tests, is a thousand or ten thousand times better, in chemistry or biology.
-How have you been able to help vaccines against covid-19 and other diseases and medicine in general?
-In medicine, at the moment, the effect has been seen above all in the diagnosis, since it can be very important to have a very quick diagnosis to be able to start therapy.But that is just one aspect, in the future it may have a much greater impact on medicine.
FROM 72 HOURS TO MINUTES TO DETECT A BACTERIAL INFECTION
-How has diagnosis time been reduced with this microscopic technology?
-What development has shown is that the diagnosis can be reduced to ten minutes, which makes it faster and they can start therapy much sooner.That is the importance it has.For example, if you have an infection and before you needed 72 hours to obtain a result and be able to start therapy, with this technology this diagnosis in bacterial infections is reduced to minutes.
-What role will nanotechnology play in the future, will it have increasing importance?
-Totally, you look back, thirty years ago when this microscope technology began and then the nanoworld and nanotechnology and the industry associated with it began.That industry today already has 250 billion dollars (US) of profit generated by nanotechnology and continues to grow, it is going more because the semiconductor industry has gone further and has developed.You can imagine where this could take you in the future.
-How can nanotechnology marry artificial intelligence?
-If nanotechnology is combined with artificial intelligence, that will be another exponential milestone.We are talking about the beginning of this, of integrating artificial intelligence with nanotechnology, which is going to have an even greater impact.
MEETING OF MICROSCOPISTS IN ZAMORA
-What impression do you get from your presence at the Fuerzas y Túnel conference that brings together microscopists and experts who work in this field in Zamora?
-It is fantastic to see very young people who have just discovered these methods.If young people miss out on technology, there is something that is not going well, but when you see so many young people like here, it is a good sign for technology and science in general.
-Do you think there is a real commitment to public investment in nanotechnology in the European Union?
-I am from Switzerland, which does not belong to the European Union, but I have many European colleagues and I know that there are many programs in the European Union that are supporting this technology and supporting this research.
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