Award-winning innovation for real-time nanoscale discovery

Hummingbird Scientific’s awards recognize more than individual products. They reflect long-term innovation in in-situ microscopy, liquid-cell TEM, bulk liquid electrochemistry, X-ray liquid electrochemistry, and commercially available sample-environment platforms used by researchers worldwide.

These awards matter becasue they document Hummingbird Scientific’s role in developing commercially available in-situ microscopy platforms, including liquid-flow TEM, multimodal electrochemistry, X-ray liquid electrochemistry, and bulk liquid electrochemistry workflows. For researchers and microscope manufacturers, this recognition provides third-party evidence that Hummingbird’s systems are not only custom instruments, but validated technology platforms used in advanced microscopy research.

Microscopy Today 2026 Innovation Award

Microscopy Today
2026
Hummingbird Scientific received a Microscopy Today Innovation Award for its Operando Plasma TEM Sample Holder, developed with the University of Minnesota to enable real-time nanoscale imaging of plasma-material interactions.
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Microscopy Today 2021 Innovation Award

Microscopy Today
2021
Hummingbird Scientific was named a 2021 Microscopy Today Innovation Award recipient for its multimodal in situ bulk liquid-electrochemistry microscopy platform.

Macres Award

Microanalysis Society
2018
Daan Hein Alsem received the 2018 Macres Award for Best Instrumentation/Software Paper for X-ray liquid electrochemistry work with the Prof. Chueh group.

Birks Award — Best Contributed Paper

Microanalysis Society
2012
Hummingbird Scientific and Raymond Unocic received the Birks Award for collaborative work presented at the 2011 Microscopy and Microanalysis conference.

FLC Award for Excellence in Technology Transfer

Federal Laboratory Consortium
2011
FLC recognized ERDC-CERL’s collaboration with Hummingbird Scientific on in situ liquid TEM holder technology, including the Liquid Flow Holder.

Tibbetts Award

Small Business Administration
2011
Hummingbird Scientific has received a Tibbetts Award from the Small Business Administration (SBA) for the development of a commercially available system—the Liquid Flow Holder—for nanoscale imaging of materials in controlled fluid environments inside the transmission electron microscope.

Microscopy Today 2012 Innovation Award

Microscopy Today
2012
The 2012 Microscopy Today Innovation Award recognized a multimodal electrochemical TEM probe developed in collaboration with Hummingbird Scientific and a team of researchers, inlcuding EMSL scientist Chongmin Wang.