NanoPrepare

Simple graphical user interface (GUI) to screen and pack nanoindentation curves for further analysis.

Note: this is the new branch for version 1. If you are looking for the old NanoPrepare, either download one of the stored v0 releases or clone the branch v0!

Introduction

This GUI is designed to open nanoindentation data (force-displacement curves), screen them (eliminating bad curves) and packing them together in a bundle file to be used for further analysis. This packaged file can be opened and processed using the softmech project https://github.com/CellMechLab/softmech.

Documentation

A step-by-step guide and video tutorials on how to use the previous software version is avilable in our recent paper:

• Ciccone, G., Azevedo Gonzalez Oliva, M., Antonovaite, N., Lüchtefeld, I., Salmeron-Sanchez, M. and Vassalli, M., 2021. Experimental and data analysis workflow for soft matter nanoindentation. Journal of Visualized Experiments (10.3791/63401).

We are updating the documentation to match the new version.

Supported file types

Right now, the software opens Optics 11 .txt files (both old and new versions are supported). We are working to add support for Nanosurf files.

Installation

No installer is currently provided. In order use the GUI, a Python 3 environment with the following packages is required: PyQt5, NumPy, SciPy, PyQtGraph, matplotlib, afmformats.

Running the GUI

In order to access the GUI, run the prepare file from the command line:

python prepare.py 

Citation

If you use this software in your publication and research, please cite the following paper:

• Ciccone, G., Azevedo Gonzalez Oliva, M., Antonovaite, N., Lüchtefeld, I., Salmeron-Sanchez, M. and Vassalli, M., 2021. Experimental and data analysis workflow for soft matter nanoindentation. Journal of Visualized Experiments (10.3791/63401 ).