Scientific Highlights

Scientific Highlights 2024

High-speed Mapping of Surface Charge Dynamics using Sparse Scanning Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (SS-KPFM)

Roles of Nanoscale Defects Disentangled in the Topological Magnet MnBi2-xSbxTe4

Facile Synthesis of Hexagonal Boron Nitride Films: Armor for Steel and Microelectronics

Human-AI collaborative solution for material characterization

Low-damage editing of 2D materials using e-beam induced, gas-assisted etching

Deep Learning Infers Structures of General Lyotropic Phases from Small Angle Neutron Scattering

Deep Learning with in situ Diagnostics Reveals Non-trivial Correlations to Film Growth

Nanoscale Electrical Memory Effects in layered 2D Materials

Small Gaps Make a Big Difference in Nanoplasmonics

On-demand Nanoengineering of Ferroelectric Topologies

Mass Loss Revealed as the Origin of Densification in Polyzwitterion Thin Films Under Electric Fields via Neutron and X-ray Reflectometries

Physicochemical Control of Solvation and Molecular Assembly

Scientific Highlights FY2023

Quantifying the structure and composition of supported bimetallic catalysts with atom probe tomography

Cations control lipid bilayer memcapacitance associated with long-term potentiation

Gold to the rescue: Coupling plasmonic Au with 2D MoS2 endows superior photocatalytic hydrogen evolution

Adding salt controls conformations of polyzwitterions in aqueous solutions

Tunable ferroelectric phenomena via surface control

Controlling edge structures through automated electron beam control via “drill bit” beam pathways

Unzipping Grain Boundaries with Vibrational Spectroscopy

Modeling and Machine Learning Pipeline for Interpreting Specular Neutron Reflectivity of Thin Block Copolymers

Dynamic Trapping of Metastable States on the Nanoscale

Imaging caged Mg and C atomic clusters in zeolites with atom probe tomography

Distinct electronic states revealed in coherent quantum dot superlattices

Polyelectrolyte Star Block Copolymers Enable Stealth Surfactants

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Scientific Highlights FY2022

Fingerprinting Polymer Brownian Motions under Flow

On-Surface Cyclodehydrogenation Reaction Pathway Determined by Selective Molecular Deuterations

Dynamic Tuning of Local Defect Concentration Delivers Enhanced Electromechanical Response

Searching for Majorana Fermions in a-RuCl3 via Phonons

Machine Learning for Automated Exploration of Metal Halide Perovskites

Neutrons help design inhibitors of SARS-CoV-2 main protease

Strong Additively Manufactured High-Entropy Alloys

Dynamic impedance reveals multiple memory elements in membrane-based memcapacitors 

Measuring and directing charge transfer in heterogenous catalysts

Hypothesis learning in automated experiment: application to combinatorial materials libraries

Machine Learning Enables Inversion of Neutron Scattering Data

Experimental Discovery of Structure–Property Relationships in Ferroelectrics via Active Learning

Advanced Microscopy Brings New Insights to Heat

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Scientific Highlights FY2021

Control of Long-Distance Motion of Single Molecules along Atomic Tracks on a Surface

Predicting Accurate Adsorption Energies for Rational Catalytic Design via Machine Learning

XMenes: A New Family of 2D Materials for Enhanced Energy Conversion, Storage, and Superconductivity

Work Function Engineering of 2D Materials

Missing y-Band in Sr2RuO4 Superconductor Unveiled

Automated Experiments Quantify Metastable Ferroelectric Dynamics

Manipulating Spins of 2D Magnets by Stacking Rotation

Excited State Pathways Present Lower Barriers for (Atomically Precise) Defect Manipulation in Graphene

Rotational Dynamics of an Amphidynamic Zirconium MOF Determined by Dielectric Spectroscopy

Dispersity Enables Tuning Co-existing Morphologies in Thin Films of Block Copolymers

Gradient Cell Structured High-Entropy Alloy Exhibits Exceptional Strength and Ductility

Automated Spectroscopy via Edge Computing for Smarter Instrumentation

Probing Lattice Distortions and Interlayer Spacings of Few-layer 2D Materials

Visualization of Electron Inhomogeneity via Microscopy

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Scientific Highlights FY2020

Controlling the Formation of Double Membrane Vesicles

Polymer Architecture Enables Protein Resistant Surfaces

Atomically Thin Half-van der Waals Metals Enabled by Confinement Heteroepitaxy

Charging and Imaging Defects On and In PdSe2

Faster Scanning Probe Microscopy via Machine Learning

Bottom-up Synthesis of Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons Directly on Metal Oxide Surfaces

Automated Experiment Discovers Novel, Highly Responsive Domain Structure in Ferroelectrics

Growth of 2D Pentagonal PdSe2 Crystals with High Mobility

Angle- and energy-resolved Raman scattering enables visualizing electron-phonon coupling in black phosphorus

Surfactant-Mediated Growth and Patterning of 2D Materials

Light-Ferroic Interactions in High-Performance Photovoltaic Materials

Engineering Edge States of Graphene Nanoribbons for Narrow-Band Photoluminescence

Laboratory-on-a-Crystal

Spin-Dependent Thermoelectric Power of Nano-Islands

Quantum material topology via defect engineering

3D Imaging and Precise Electronic Structure Correlations of Atomic Defects in 2D Materials

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Scientific Highlights FY2019

Unlocking Secrets of Controlled Assembly of Bimetallic Nanoparticles on Silica

“Channeling” Electrons to a Topological State for Ultrahigh Mobility of Spin Current

Tuning Biocompatible Polymers with Deuteration

Simulations Guide Experiments in Understanding Strain-Dependent Raman Scattering of Black Phosphorus

Two Dimensional MXenes Provide Ultrasensing Capabilities

Negative Differential Resistance Devices From Atomically Precise Nanoscale Design

Electrifying Neutrons: Identifying Isotopes in the Electron Microscope with Nanoscale Spatial Resolution

Isotopes Enable Major Improvement of Transport Properties in Two-Dimensional MoS2 Crystals

Electronic Excitations Ease Manipulation of Defects in Graphene

Atomistic origins of thermolysis-driven growth of 2D MoS2

Revealing Environment Impacts on Organometal Halide Perovskites (OMHPs) Charge Transport

Dynamical Nonlinear Memory Capacitance in Biomimetic Membranes