Norman Salmon
Mr. Norman Salmon co-founded Hummingbird Scientific along with Professor Eric Stach in 2004. Together they have built a thriving, profitable, and debt free company that has created more than a dozen innovative products and aided their customers with hundreds of scientific publications.
Mr. Salmon’s role in the company is that of Principal Investigator, Chief Engineer and Operations Director. He has been involved in supporting material science research for his entire career. In his early career he worked to develop new materials for automotive applications. For the last 15 years he has been deeply involved in electron and x-ray microscopy, both by supporting other scientists as well as a PI in the development of new instrumentation. With his collaborators he has contributed to dozens of high impact publications in journals such as Science and Nature. His company’s in-situ microscopy instruments have been used to generate hundreds of peer-reviewed publications over the past ten years. More recently he has been directly involved as a co-author of publications appearing in Science, Chemistry of Materials, and the Journal of The Electrochemical Society.
Some of the company’s achievements include the SBA’s Tibbett’s Award, the US Federal Laboratory Consortium Award (jointly with the US Army Research Lab), and Microscopy Today 2012 Innovation Award (jointly with PNNL). As a Principal Investigator at Hummingbird Scientific, Mr. Salmon has received more than $19 million of funding from the Department of Energy Office of Basic Energy Sciences, the U.S. Army, and the National Institute of Health.
Mr. Salmon and has been involved in the precision engineering and manufacturing industry for over 25 years. His previous roles include owning an ultra-precision machine shop and as the Engineering Division Program Manager for the Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. He is an expert machinist and tool designer. He has consulted for more than 50 organizations, including government agencies, medical manufacturing companies, precision machine tool builders, and manufacturers of precision components. He is an active member of the American Society for Precision Engineering, the Materials Research Society, and the Microscopy Society of America. Mr. Salmon earned a B.S. in Industrial Engineering Technology from Western Washington University.
Selected Publications
Nature Communications
Danwon Lee, Chihyun Nam, Juwon Kim, Sooseong Hwang, Bonho Koo, Hyejeong Hyun, Jinkyu Chung, Sungjae Seo, Munsoo Song, Jaejung Song, Myeongjun Kim, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman J. Salmon, Suyong Lee, Yeonchoo Cho, Namdong Kim, David A. Shapiro, Jongwoo Lim. “Strain-associated nanoscale fluctuating lithium transport within single-crystalline LiNi1/3Mn1/3Co1/3O2 cathode particles”. Nature Communications (2025)
ECS Meeting Abstracts
Danwon Lee, Chihyun Nam, Juwon Kim, Bonho Koo, Hyejeong Hyun, Jinkyu Chung, Sungjae Seo, Munsoo Song, Jaejung Song, Daan Alsem, Norman Salmon, Suyong Lee, Namdong Kim, David Shapiro, Jongwoo Lim. “(Battery Student Slam 8 Award Winner) Multi-Clustered Lithium Diffusion in Single-Crystalline NMC Battery Particles”. ECS Meeting Abstracts (2024)
Joule
Juwon Kim, Si Young Lee, Se-Jun Kim, Bonho Koo, Jinkyu Chung, Danwon Lee, Subin Choi, Jimin Kim, Sungjae Seo, Chihyun Nam, Karl Adrian Gandionco, Gwangsu Bak, Sugeun Jo, Namdong Kim, Hyun-Joon Shin, Keun Hwa Chae, Da Hye Won, Matthew A. Marcus, David A. Shapiro, Shu-Chih Haw, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman J. Salmon, Byoung Koun Min, Hyungjun Kim, Yun Jeong Hwang, Jongwoo Lim. “Spatiotemporal active phase evolution for CO2 electrocatalysis”. Joule (2024)
ECS Meeting Abstracts
Danwon Lee, Chihyun Nam, Juwon Kim, Bonho Koo, Hyejeong Hyun, Jinkyu Chung, Sungjae Seo, Munsoo Song, Jaejung Song, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman Salmon, Suyong Lee, Namdong Kim, David Shapiro, Jongwoo Lim. “Nanoscopic Strain-Associated Lithium Diffusion in Single-Crystalline NMC Battery Particles”. ECS Meeting Abstracts (2024)
ECS Meeting Abstracts
Calvin Parkin, Tyler Mefford, Jongwoo Lim, Aram Yoon, Rui Serra-Maia, Pawan Kumar, See Wee Chee, William C. Chueh, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman Salmon, Eric A. Stach. “In-Situ Liquid-Electrochemical X-Ray and Electron Microscopy for Multi-Modal Energy Materials Characterization”. ECS Meeting Abstracts (2024)
Nature
J. Tyler Mefford, Andrew R. Akbashev, Minkyung Kang, Cameron L. Bentley, William E. Gent, Haitao D. Deng, Daan Hein Alsem, Young-Sang Yu, Norman J. Salmon, David A. Shapiro, Patrick R. Unwin, William C. Chueh. “Correlative operando microscopy of oxygen evolution electrocatalysts”. Nature (2021)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Khim Karki, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman Salmon. “Cryo-Electrical Microscopy for Quantum and Advanced Energy Applications”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2021)
ACS Nano
Quintin Cheek, Eli Fahrenkrug, Sofiya Hlynchuk, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman J. Salmon, Stephen Maldonado. “In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy Measurements of Ge Nanowire Synthesis with Liquid Metal Nanodroplets in Water”. ACS Nano (2020)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Khim Karki, Rui Serra-Maia, Eric Stach, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman Salmon. “Realistic Bulk Electrochemistry in Liquid Cell Microscopy”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2020)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Khim Karki, Pawan Kumar, Antoine Verret, Noah Glachman, Daan Hein Alsem, Deep Jariwala, Norman Salmon, Eric Stach. “In situ operando Study of Photoelectrochemistry Using Optical Liquid Cell Microscopy”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2020)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Eric Stach, James Horwath, Nikhilendra Singh, Timothy Arthur, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman Salmon. “Understanding the Relationship Between Air Exposure, Electron Dose and Beam Damage in Solid Electrolyte Materails”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2020)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Tyler Mefford, Khim Karki, Daan Hein Alsem, David Shapiro, Norman Salmon, William C. Chueh. “Operando Scanning Transmission X-ray Microscopy of Co(OH)2 Oxygen Evolution Electrocatalysts”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2019)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Noah Glachman, Noah Geller, Alexander Shea, V. Antoine Verret, Khim Karki, Julio Rodriquez-Manzo, Norman J. Salmon, Daan Hein Alsem, Deep Jariwala, Eric Stach. “Development of a Method to Characterize Active Sites in Photocatalysis using operando Transmission Electron Microscopy”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2019)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Julio A. Rodriguez Manzo, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman J. Salmon, David Cooper. “Good Contacts for Quantitative In-Situ TEM Biasing Experiments with Movable Probes”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2018)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Khim Karki, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman Salmon. “Practical Electroanalytical Measurements in Liquid Cell TEM”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2018)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Khim Karki, Tyler Mefford, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman Salmon, William C. Chueh. “Replicating Bulk Electrochemistry in Liquid Cell Microscopy”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2018)
Chemistry of Materials
Timothy S. Arthur, Per-Anders Glans, Nikhilendra Singh, Oscar Tutusaus, Kaiqi Nie, Yi-Sheng Liu, Fuminori Mizuno, Jinghua Guo, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman J. Salmon, Rana Mohtadi. “Interfacial Insight from Operando XAS/TEM for Magnesium Metal Deposition with Borohydride Electrolytes”. Chemistry of Materials (2017)
Journal of The Electrochemical Society
Eli Fahrenkrug, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman Salmon, Stephen Maldonado. “Electrochemical Measurements in In Situ TEM Experiments”. Journal of The Electrochemical Society (2017)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Eli Fahrenkrug, Daan Hein Alsem, Norman Salmon, Stephen Maldonado. “Electrochemical Measurements during In Situ Liquid-Electrochemical TEM Experiments”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2017)