Previous Year Winners
M&M 2025
Biological Sciences
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Cas Cummins – Lincoln Memorial University
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Solinus Farrer – Brigham Young University
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Yuxuan Guo – University of Utah
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Stephanie Spada – NIH / University of Oxford
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Analytical & Cross-Cutting Sciences
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Kamyar Barakati – University of Tennessee
LLM-Assisted Causal Discovery: Mapping Hidden Patterns in Crystalline Solids |
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Kyle Cole – University of Oregon
Regressive Prediction of Focused Ion Beam Milling Depth for Electron Diffraction Gratings |
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Hannah DeVyldere – University of California, Berkeley
Unraveling Nanodiffraction Patterns of Metal Halide Perovskite Nanowires Inside Carbon Nanotubes |
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Byeongjun Gil – Brookhaven National Laboratory
Quantitative Study of Electron Beam Damage in Metal Halide Perovskites using Nanobeam Diffraction |
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Grace Guinan – NREL
Describing Point Defect Topology in 2D Energy Materials through Computer Vision |
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Tizian Lorenzen – Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich
Aberration Measurement by Electron Ptychography and Consistency Among Different Algorithms |
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Kevin Mogere Nyaburi – Rochester Institute of Technology
Scanning Electron Microscopy Noise Classification Using Machine Learning |
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Rino Shimoshige – Kanazawa University
Observation of Magnetosome Structures Isolated from Magnetotactic Bacterium Solidesulfovibrio magneticus RS-1 |
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Nanami Yamamoto – Institute of Engineering Innovation, the University of Tokyo
Chromatic Aberration Considering for Optimum Bright Field Imaging using 4D STEM Data |
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Alfred Yan – Northwestern University
Towards Extracting Space Group Information From Experimental EBSD Patterns Using Unsupervised Domain Adaptation |
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Yuxi Zhang – Penn State
Cryogenic Focused Ion Beam Preparation of Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite FAPbI3 for Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Lingfeng Zhou – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Advanced STEM Analysis of Anion Void Lattice and Defects Evolution in Electron Irradiated CaF |
Physical Sciences
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Yutong Bi – University of California, Irvine
In-situ Observation of Secondary Grain Boundary Dislocation and Grain Boundary Disconnection Interaction |
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Levi Brown – UC Irvine
Revealing the Role of Individual Metal-Support Interactions in Hydrogen Production for Heterogeneous Photocatalysts via 4DSTEM Techniques |
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Zizhen Cai – Northwestern University
In-Situ Investigation of Electron Beam-Induced Gas-Phase Polymerization Using Closed-Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Nicholas Hagopian – UW Madison
STEM Characterization of Substrate/Graphene Epitaxial Influences on GdAuGe Orientations and Interfaces |
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Yifeng Huang – University of California, Irvine
Observation of Strong Phonon Anisotropy Across Dislocation Region in Oxide Freestanding Film |
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Madison King – Northern Arizona University
Liquid Metal Coatings on Lithium Metal Anodes Protect Against Capacity Fade: A Cryo Electron Microscopy Study |
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Tamara D. Koledin – Oregon State University
In Situ TEM with Simultaneous Nanocalorimetry of the Crystallization of Phase Change Materials |
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Mahir Manna – Arizona State University
Mapping Phonons Induced by Polarization using Differential Momentum Resolved Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy-Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy |
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Joaquin E. Reyes-Gonzalez – McMaster University
Phonon Modes of High-Tc YBa2Cu3O7-δ Films: Effects of Doping and Isotope Substitution |
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Orlando Daniel Salguero – University of Washington
Structural Studies of Single-Atom Yb3 Defects in CrI3 2D Ferromagnets Using Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Kang'an Wang – University of California, Berkeley
In-Situ Dynamics of Moiré Superlattice Epitaxy as a Platform for Site-Selective Adhesion and Growth |
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Dian Yu – University of Toronto
Visibility of Nanoparticles in Liquid-Phase SEM via Monte Carlo Simulations |
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Danial Zangeneh – University of Illinois Chicago
Investigation of α-V2O5 as a Cathode Material for Magnesium Ion Batteries Using Atomic Resolved Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy |
M&M 2024
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Sara Abouelniaj – Rice University
Exploring Grid Diversity: Enhancing Graphene Transfer for Improved Cryo-EM Sample Preparation |
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Carl B. Brashears – Towson University
Inducing Vascular Endothelial Growth Factor to Investigate Tissue Regeneration and Stimulation of Early Angiogenesis in Axolotl Salamanders |
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Handolsam Chung – Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST)
In Situ TEM Study on Temperature-dependent Growth of Carbon Nanofiber and Nanotube from Ethanol Vapor |
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Sylvie Crowell – NASA Glenn Research Center; Case Western Reserve University
Investigation of Thermal Sintering Effects on Aerosol Jet Printed Silver Nanoparticle Ink Flexible Electronics using FIB/SEM |
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Luis Rangel DaCosta – University of California, Berkeley
Generating and Sampling Complex Nanostructures with Construction Zone |
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Dawn Ford – University of Virginia
Deep learning driven analysis of a structural phase transformation in CrSBr |
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Mia L. San Gabriel – University of Toronto
Liquid-phase scanning electron microscopy for imaging hydrated particle structures |
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Rogine Gomez – The Ohio State University
Understanding Dislocation-Interface Interactions During Recrystallization of Mg-Ca-Zn Alloys |
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Francisco Guzman – University of California, Irvine
Ferroelastic Charged Domains in Ferroelectric BiFeO3 Nanoneedles. |
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Soo-Yoon Hwang – Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)
Self-healing to Perfect Single Crystals via Synergistic Stabilization |
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Yeeun Kim – KAIST
Visualizing Heterogeneous Protein Conformations with Multi-Tilt Nanoparticle-Aided Cryo-Electron Microscopy Sampling |
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Wonseok Lee – California Institute of Technology
Progress toward Mapping Nanoscale Carrier and Structural Dynamics in Silicon using Ultrafast TEM-Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy |
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Udupa Sujit Manjunatha – Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science
Transmission Electron Microscopy Exploration of Solution-Grown Lead Oxide Nanosheets: Unveiling Crystallinity and Defects |
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Andres Marquez – Oak Ridge National Laboratory; University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Investigating Recrystallization Kinetics of 316L stainless steel in Hybrid Manufacturing for Microstructure Control |
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Elisa M. Olivas – University of California, Irvine
Probing Enzyme@Metal-Organic Framework Interactions for Enhanced Stability and Catalytic Efficiency Using Cryogenic Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy(CryoEELS) and Energy-Filtered TEM (EF-TEM) |
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Tristan O'Neill – University of California, Los Angeles
Mapping Moiré Potentials with STEM EBIC Imaging |
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Frederik Otto – Technische Unversität Berlin
Analyzing Surface Relaxation in TEM-Lamella: A Method for Revealing Alloy Concentrations at Strained Semiconductor Interfaces |
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Wyatt Peele – National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Advancing Cryo-EM Sample Preparation Through High-Precision Robotics |
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Alexander Reifsnyder – The Ohio State University
Using Rapid Prototyping to Complement the Side-Entry Transmission Electron Microscope |
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Nicholas M. Rienstra – University of Wisconsin, Madison
Stereolithographic (SLA) 3D Printing of Microfluidic Flow Cells to Encapsulate EM Grids Used to Culture Cells for Correlative Imaging Studies |
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Raphael Rose – University of Maryland
Correlative Characterization of Dielectric Breakdown in Functional Space Polymers |
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Maria A. Stanko – University of Toronto
Challenges in Silver Conservation: Characterizing the Composition and Sources of Unusual Tarnish on Seleucid Silver Coins Using SEM-EDS |
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Harrison A. Walker – Vanderbilt University
Integration of Machine-Learned Force Fields for Phonon DOS in Nanoscale Heterostructures |
M&M 2023
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Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari – Pennsylvania State University
Characterization of High Entropy Oxide Thin Film by High-Resolution STEM-EELS |
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Zhaslan Baraissov – Cornell University
Measuring three-dimensional strain in Nb3Sn grains by combining ZOLZ and HOLZ diffraction |
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Matthew L. Chang – University of Michigan
Image processing pipeline for in situ structural characterization of filaments |
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Xi Chen – Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Characterization of Quantum Emitters and Extended Defects in ZnSe via Multislice Electron Ptychography |
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Sivert J.V. Dagenborg – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Acquisition and Processing of Magnetic Data from LN2 Cooled Perovskite Thin Films Using STEM-DPC |
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Julien Gonthier – Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces
Quantitative Imaging using an Automated in-operando micro-CT Workflow: Tracking the Drying and Related Shape-changes of Silica Aerogels |
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Silu Guo – University of Minnesota
Self-healing Crystallization via Radiolysis-Driven Constructive Twist in Rutile-TiO2 |
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Francisco Guzman – University of California, Irvine
Phase Coexistence in Multiferroic BiFeO3 Nano-Needles Driven by Surface Boundary Conditions |
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Rudolf U. Haindl – Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Statistical control over electron beams using Coulomb-correlated few-electron states in a transmission electron microscope |
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Jan-Wilke Henke – Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences
Mapping Nonlinear Optical Effects in an Integrated Photonics Microresonator |
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Eitan Hershkovitz – University of Florida
Unveiling Nanoscale Coherent Precipitates and their Strain Fields in NiTiHf-based Shape Memory Alloys Using 4D-STEM |
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G.M. Jonaid – The Pennsylvania State University
Comparative Analysis of Cryo-Electron Microscopy and Liquid-Electron Microscopy Image Processing Workflows |
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Joseph Y. Kim – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Morphological Comparison of Primary Neurons Cryo-Preserved Under Varied Conditions |
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Marthe Linnerud – Norwegian University of Science and Technology
Developing Customizable TEM Membranes for in-situ Experiments of Functional Nanostructures and Thin films |
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Xiner (Lucy) Lu – University of California, Irvine
Machine Learning Enhanced Image Segmentation for High-Fidelity STEM Data Analysis |
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William W. Millsaps, III – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ronchigram Simulation and Aberration Correction Training using Ronchigram.com |
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Amirafshar Moshtaghpour – University of Liverpool
Exploring Low-dose and Fast Electron Ptychography using l_0 Regularisation of Extended Ptychographical Iterative Engine |
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Deepak V. Pillai – University of Nevada, Reno
Characterization of Complex Microstructure in the Selective Laser Melted Near-α Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo Alloy Using Correlative Scanning Electron Microscopy and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Alexander Reifsnyder – The Ohio State University
Development of a Low-Cost, Modular Cryo-Transfer Station for the Side-Entry Transmission Electron Microscope |
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Jarod Robinson – The University of Alabama
Pearlite Size Effects on Ductility at Cryogenic Temperature via In-Situ Cantilever Loading |
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Morgan Seidler – University of California, Berkeley
Atomic-scale imaging polypeptoid crystals with varying molecular side chains |
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Nicolette A. Shaw – University of Waterloo
High-Throughput Low-Dose Biomolecule Imaging in Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy |
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Jacob Smith – North Carolina State University
In Situ Investigation of the Mechanistic Causes of Sintering in Platinum – Aluminum Oxide Catalysts |
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Tu?çe Üstünel – Koç University
Single-Atom Sn-Loaded Exfoliated Layered Titanate Shows Photocatalytic Activity in Hydrogen Generation |
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Yifan Wang – Arizona State University
Exploring the Effect of Diffraction Conditions on Off-Axis Phonon EELS |
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Jongchan Yoon – Institute for Basic Science (IBS)
In Situ Tensile and Fracture Behavior of Ultra-thin Amorphous Carbon in TEM |
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Dian Yu – University of Toronto
Low-voltage SEM Imaging of Lignocellulosic Biomass using a Low-cost Methanesulfonate Ionic Liquid |
M&M 2022
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Fatemeh Abbasi Yeganeh – Florida State University
High Resolution Cryo-EM Structure of Drosophila Thick Filaments |
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Milenka Andelic – McMaster University
Structural and chemical characterization of Ge/GeSn core/shell nanowires |
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Sabrina Clusiau – McGill University
Workflow Automation of SEM Grid Acquisitions for Nanoparticle Analysis |
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Sarah M. Connolly – University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Structural analysis Helicobacter pylori VacA’s channel in membrane |
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Paige Engen – University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Orientation-Specific CDW Phase Transition Temperatures in 1T-TaS2 |
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Yin Min Goh – University of Michigan
Pico-scale Distortions in Encapsulated Monolayer a-RuCI3 Characterized with 3D Electron Diffraction |
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Kilian Gruel – CEMES-CNRS
Coupling Electronic Holography and Finite-Element Method Simulations to Measure Electric Fields in Nanocapacitors |
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Huiming Guo – University of California, Irvine
Complex Core-Shell Nanoparticles Embedded in a Perovskite Complex Concentrated Oxide Film Synthesized in One Step |
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John Hegarty – Northwestern University
Characterization of Laundry Microplastics Through Automated Image Analysis |
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Hyesung Jo – Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
3D Structural Determination of Core-Shell Nanoparticles |
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Danielle Markovich – Cornell University
Signal Enhancement of Low-Dose Cryogenic 4D-STEM Data for Mapping of Beam Sensitive Materials |
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Victoria Pappas – University of Wisconsin, Madison
Cryo-EM Structural Studies of the Vibrio cholerae Flagellum |
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Chenyue Qiu – University of Toronto
Real-time Analysis of Oxygen Vacancy of Indium Oxide via Environmental Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Hosna Rastegarpouyani – Florida State University
Isolation of Striated Muscle Thick Filaments for Cryo-EM |
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Jacques Reddinger – University of Oregon
Micromagnetics Simulation as a Supplement to and Diagnostic for Lorentz Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Jacquelyn Roberts – University of Michigan
Cryo-EM Reveals New Species-specific Proteins and Symmetry Elements in the Legionella pneumophila Dot/IcmT4SS |
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Chuqiao Shi – Rice University
Uncovering In-Plane Domain Structures in Two-Dimensional Ferroelectric SnSe Using Machine-Learning Assisted 4D-STEM |
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Tigran Simonian – Trinity College Dublin
Characterisation of Planar Defects in Ternary Layered Chalcogenides for Electronic Devices |
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Solange Steadman – Arizona State University
Comparison of Age-Related Tyramine Concentration in the Male Mouse Reproductive System |
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Yara T. Suleiman – University of Connecticut
In-situ 3D X-ray Tomography and Analysis of Reverse Osmosis Membranes Under Compaction |
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Emmanuel Terzoudis-Lumsden – Monash University
Exploring the 3D Resolution of Parallax Phase Reconstruction from 4D STEM: A Dopant Depth Case Study |
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Yifan Wang – Arizona State University
Revealing Photonic Properties with High Spatial Resolution: An EELS Study on Ceria Nanocubes |
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Yu-Mi Wu – Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research
Charge distribution control with atomic resolution via strain engineering in oxide heterostructures |
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Aram Yoon – UNIST / IBS Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials
Potassium-Mediated Anisotropic Etching of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides Driven by Self Running Oxide Droplets |
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Daniel Zeitler – University of Toronto
Automated Grain Segmentation for Crystal Orientation mapping in 4D Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy |
M&M 2021
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Sang Hyun Bae – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Curvature-dependent Organic Ligand Binding on Gold Nanostars Revealed by Quantitative EELS Spectral Imaging |
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Lopa Bhatt – University of Illinois, Chicago
Plasmon electron energy-loss spectroscopy and in-situ cooling experiments of graphene liquid cells |
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Joshua Dickerson – MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology
How much can inelastically scattered electrons contribute to electron cryotomography of biological specimens? |
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Yu-Lin Hsu – University of Utah
Simulated Energy Distribution of an Electron-Beam Irradiated on Metal-Halide Perovskite Photovoltaic Devices |
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Huaixun Huyan – University of California, Irvine
Direct Observation of Polarization-induced Two-dimensional Electron/Hole Gases at Ferroelectric-insulator Interface |
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Francisco Lagunas – University of Illinois, Chicago
Atomic-resolution in-situ Cooling Study of Functionally Terminated 2D Transition Metal Carbides |
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Matthew Helmi Leth Larsen – Technical University of Denmark
A Superior Neural Network for Distinguishing Between Atomic Species |
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Hsuan-Fu Liu – Duke University
Structure determination of low-molecular weight targets at near-atomic resolution using single-particle cryo-electron tomography |
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Cuauhtémoc Núñez Valencia – Technical University of Denmark
Interaction of electron beam and gold nanoparticles |
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Jacob Pietrya – University of Michigan
Rapid Holographic Display of 3D Nanomaterials |
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Mirra Rasmussen - Case Western Reserve University
Surface Energy and Microstructure: The effect of the underlying substrate on perovskite film formation for solar cell absorbers |
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Tzu-Hsien Shen - Instute of Materials, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Electron probing of the oxygen evolving Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-δ |
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Sai Nikhil Subraveti - University of Maryland
Capsules with Concentric Biopolymer-Nylon Shells Imaged by Cryo-FIB/SEM |
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Mai Tan - Arizona State University
In-situ TEM Study of Oxygen Surface Exchange on Ceria, Gd-doped Ceria and Pr-doped Ceria |
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Gabriela Tarango-Rivero - Centro de Investigacion en Materiales Avanzados (CIMAV)
Methylene Blue removal using a leached graphite prepared by a green mechanochemical process |
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Luisa Watkins - Boston University
Prevention Beats Removal: Avoiding Stripe Artifacts from Current Variation in Particle Beam Microscopy Through Time-Resolved Sensing |
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Alyssa Williams - McMaster University
Correlative Light and Electron Microscopy for the Study of the Structural Arrangement of Bacterial Microcrystalline Cellulose Microfibrils |
M&M 2020
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Huaixun Huyan – University of California, Irvine
Observation of Charge Separation Along BiFeO3 109? Domain Walls by Using Low-convergence Angle 4-dimensional Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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Kaustav Chatterjee – Indiana University, Bloomington
Nanoscale Investigation of Layered Oxychloride Intergrowth Photocatalysts for Visible Light Driven Water Splitting |
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Aubrey Penn – North Carolina State University
A STEM-EELS Investigation of La0.7Sr0.3CrO3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 Multilayer Thin Films |
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Jinglong Guo – University of Illinois at Chicago
Study of Arsenic Doped CdSeTe Solar Cells Using Transmission Electron Microscopy |
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David Krug – Philipps-Universität Marburg, Materials Sciences Center
Formation Mechanism of the Dominant Kinks in GaP Nanowires grown in an in-situ (S)TEM Gas Cell Holder |
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Debadarshini Samantaray – IISC
Axial-Radial Heterostructures of Telluride Nanowire |
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Erica Stevens – University of Pittsburgh
Multi-Material Binder Jet Printing of Functional Ni-Mn-Ga Alloys |
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Tashi Hatchell – Fayetteville State University
Morphological and Compositional Characterization of Electrochemically Active Perovskite Oxides for Sensing Biological Molecules† |
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Rajeev Rai – Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Morphology Controlled Low-dimensional Single-crystalline SnSe2-graphene Hybrid for near IR Photodetection |
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Joshua Mitchell – University of Wisconsin, Madison
Eosinophil Activation: How the Cytoskeleton Shapes Immune Response |
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Josue David Hernandez Varela – Instituto Politecnico Nacional
Biodegradable Polymers: New Alternatives Using Nanocellulose and Agroindustrial Residues |
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Fatemeh Abbasi Yeganeh – Florida State University
Actin Filaments in Flight Muscle Z-disks of Lethocerus Indicus Show Screw Symmetry, Not Rotational Symmetry |
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Austin Worden – University of South Carolina School of Medicine
Novel Method to Study Stem Cells in Development and Disease |
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Abhijit H. Phakatkar – University of Illinois at Chicago
STEM-EDS and STEM-EELS Studies of Antibacterial Behavior of Phosphorene |
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Benjamin Gonzalez – Arizona State University
Obstacle-Induced Branching in Filamentous Fungi |
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Joshua Mendez – Florida State University
The Influence of Detector Quality and Throughput for Cryo-EM of Challenging Proteins |