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Biofilm and biofouling lead to various industrial problems and/or benefits. To solve the problems or to utilize them, it is very important for us to evaluate biofilm and biofouling properly and correctly. From materials science viewpoint, some analytical techniques familiar to the discipline would be better. A few of them include optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX), atomic force microscopy (AFM), etc. Even though many other spectroscopies might be applied to the evaluation of biofilm, some aforementioned representative techniques are described in this chapter. The following discussion will benefit the engineers, researchers, and students of materials science and engineering, who plan to use these techniques to solve problems.
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Kanematsu, H., Barry, D. (2015). New Evaluation Techniques for Biofilm in Materials Science. In: Kanematsu, H., Barry, D. (eds) Biofilm and Materials Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14565-5_24
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