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Nano Letters
Andrew Baker, Sai Bharadwaj Vishnubhotla, Sanjana Karpe, Yahui Yang, Götz Veser, Tevis D. B. Jacobs. “In Situ Measurement of Adhesion for Multimetallic Nanoparticles”. Nano Letters (2025)
ACS Nano
Cheng-Yu Chen, Duncan Burns, Peter W. Voorhees, Eric A. Stach. “Interfacial Energy Gradients Drive Coalescence of Supported Nanoparticles”. ACS Nano (2025)
Nature Communications
Leifeng Zhang, Christophe Gatel, Muhammad Hamid Raza, Kilian Gruel, Catherine Dubourdieu, Martin Hÿtch. “Mapping electric fields and observation of ferroelectric domain switching in hafnia-zirconia devices by electron holography”. Nature Communications (2025)
Acta Materialia
Ruikang Ding, Ashlie Martini, Tevis D.B. Jacobs. “Mechanical behavior and size-dependent strength of small noble-metal nanoparticles”. Acta Materialia (2025)
Nature Communications
Dong-Su Ko, Sewon Kim, Sangjun Lee, Gabin Yoon, Daeho Kim, ChaeHo Shin, Dongmin Kim, Jaewoo Lee, Soohwan Sul, Dong-Jin Yun, Changhoon Jung. “Mechanism of stable lithium plating and stripping in a metal-interlayer-inserted anode-less solid-state lithium metal battery”. Nature Communications (2025)
Materials and Interfaces
THao Ngo, Siying Yu, Hong Yang. “Modelling the Growth and Aggregation of Gold Nanoparticles Using Liquid-Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy”. Materials and Interfaces (2025)
MRS Communications
George G. Hollyer, Dmitri N. Zakharov, Daan Hein Alsem, Calvin Parkin, Eric A. Stach. “Nanometer-scale resolution in an ultra-high pressure environmental TEM holder”. MRS Communications (2025)
Nature Materials
Chang Qian, Ethan Stanifer, Zhan Ma, Lehan Yao, Binbin Luo, Chang Liu, Jiahui Li, Puquan Pan, Wenxiao Pan, Xiaoming Mao, Qian Chen. “Nanoscale phonon dynamics in self-assembled nanoparticle lattices”. Nature Materials (2025)
ACS Nano
Zhiheng Lyu, Samyukta Shrivastav, Jiahui Li, Chang Qian, Lehan Yao, Nachi Shah, Maryam Eslami, Chang Liu, Sheila Ismail, John Shabaker, Eric Doskocil, Daniel V. Krogstad, Jessica A. Krogstad, Qian Chen. “Nanoscopic Imaging of Biogenic Feedstock-Induced Corrosion in Model Petroleum Infrastructure”. ACS Nano (2025)
Journal of The Electrochemical Society
Serin Lee, Nils F. J. Fleuren, Ainsley Pinkowitz, Frances M. Ross. “Patterned Electrochemical Deposition through Local Heating of Electrodes”. Journal of The Electrochemical Society (2025)
ChemRxiv
Evan Zoltan Carlson, Karina Masalkovaite, Jaeheon Lee, Md Delowar Hossain, Xiao Zhao, Paul McIntyre, Bryan McCloskey, Hendrik Ohldag, William Chueh, Michal Bajdich, J. Tyler Mefford. “pH-dependent Scaling Relations and Ion Insertion Promote Bifunctional Oxygen Electrocatalysis on MnO2”. ChemRxiv (2025)
Journal of the American Chemical Society
Morgan Barbey-Binggeli, Vasiliki Tileli. “Pit Morphology, Dissolution Kinetics, and Gas Generation Monitored in Real Time during Localized Anodic Aluminum Corrosion”. Journal of the American Chemical Society (2025)
Inorganic Chemistry
Sheridon N. Kelly, Dominic R. Russo, Trevor Arino, Patrick W. Smith, Mark D. Straub, John Arnold, Stefan G. Minasian. “Precursor Identity and Surfactant Concentration Influence Shape of UO2 Nanoparticles”. Inorganic Chemistry (2025)
ChemRxiv
Raquel Aymerich Armengol, Lau Morten Kaas, Alexander Juul Nielsen, Feng Wu, Alba Bech Larsen, Marika Birkedal Norby, Andrea M. Mingers, Siyuan Zhang, Christian Danvad Damsgaard, Stig Helveg, Jakob Kibsgaard, Peter Christian Kjærgaard Vesborg. “Probing the stability window of electrodeposited MnO2 for the acidic oxygen evolution reaction”. ChemRxiv (2025)
Small
Eunji Kang, Jieun Yun, Hyuk Choi, Mi Yoo, Ju Hyeok Lee, Hongjin Park, Jin-Seok Choi, Kug-Seung Lee, David A. Shapiro, Alex Ditter, Bob Jin Kwon, Chunjoong Kim, Young-Sang Yu, Hyun You Kim. “Pt Nanoparticle Disintegration at Oxide Interfaces Enhances CO Oxidation Catalysis”. Small (2025)
Chemistry of Materials
Krishna Kumar, Anna Loiudice, Coline Boulanger, Seyedmohamadjavad Chabok, Raffaella Buonsanti. “Real-Time Monitoring Reveals Stability of Gallium Nanoparticles beyond the Thermodynamic Reduction Potential of Their Oxide Skin under CO2 Reduction Conditions”. Chemistry of Materials (2025)
Nature Materials
Aram Yoon, Lichen Bai, Fengli Yang, Federico Franco, Chao Zhan, Martina Rüscher, Janis Timoshenko, Christoph Pratsch, Stephan Werner, Hyo Sang Jeon, Mariana Cecilio de Oliveira Monteiro, See Wee Chee, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya. “Revealing catalyst restructuring and composition during nitrate electroreduction through correlated operando microscopy and spectroscopy”. Nature Materials (2025)
Nature Communications
Jae Hyun Nam, K. Andre Mkhoyan, Daan Hein Alsem, Peter J. Bruggeman. “Revealing the mechanisms of non-thermal plasma-enabled iron oxide reduction through nanoscale operando TEM”. Nature Communications (2025)
Nanotechnology
William A Hubbard, Matthew Mecklenburg, Ho Leung Chan, B C Regan. “Secondary electron emission current mapping for nanoscale thermometry”. Nanotechnology (2025)
Small Methods
Wenhui Wang, Mingyun Zhu, Ivan Erofeev, Guoming Lin, Kuibo Yin, Litao Sun, Utkur Mirsaidov. “Size-Focusing of Au Nanoparticles through Dissolution-Renucleation Process Imaged with In Situ TEM”. Small Methods (2025)