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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)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Antonia E Kotronia, Eric Gautron, Ivan T Lucas, Patricia Abellan. “Towards Controlled Chemical and Electrochemical Reactivity during In Situ Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2025)
Advanced Functional Materials
Zihao Zhao, Mengfei Zhang, Qun Yang, Tamihiro Gotoh, Qingqin Ge, Nannan Shi, Yuting Sun, Jiayi Zhao, Yanping Sui, Ran Jiang, Haibin Yu, Stephen R. Elliott, Zhitang Song, Min Zhu. “Volatile to Non-Volatile Switching Transition in Chalcogenides”. Advanced Functional Materials (2025)
iScience
Xin Wei, Michael Noyong, Ulrich Simon. “Advanced electrode design enables homogeneous electric field distribution for metal deposition studies via in situ liquid cell TEM”. iScience (2024)
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)
Advanced Materials
SungHyun Jeon, Wan-Gil Jung, Hohan Bae, Sejong Ahn, Bonjae Koo, WonJeong Yu, Seunghyun Kim, DongHwan Oh, Uisik Kim, Scott A. Barnett, Jongsu Seo, Bong-Joong Kim, WooChul Jung. “Concurrent Amorphization and Nanocatalyst Formation in Cu‐Substituted Perovskite Oxide Surface: Effects on Oxygen Reduction Reaction at Elevated Temperatures”. Advanced Materials (2024)
Nano Letters
Gaurav Modi, Andrew C. Meng, Srinivasan Rajagopalan, Rangarajan Thiruvengadam, Peter K. Davies, Eric A. Stach, Ritesh Agarwal. “Controlled Self-Assembly of Nanoscale Superstructures in Phase-Change Ge-Sb-Te Nanowires”. Nano Letters (2024)
iScience
Rui Serra-Maia, Joel B. Varley, Stephen E. Weitzner, Henry Yu, Rongpei Shi, Jurgen Biener, Sneha A. Akhade, Eric A. Stach. “Decoupling CO2 Effects from Electrochemistry: A Mechanistic Study of Copper Catalyst Degradation”. iScience (2024)
ACS Nano
Jaewon Lee, Zexi Lu, Zhigang Wu, Colin Ophus, Gregory K. Schenter, James J. De Yoreo, Jaehun Chun, Dongsheng Li. “Defect Self-Elimination in Nanocube Superlattices Through the Interplay of Brownian, van der Waals, and Ligand-Based Forces and Torques”. ACS Nano (2024)
ACS Nano
Ahyoung Kim, Kireeti Akkunuri, Chang Qian, Lehan Yao, Kai Sun, Zi Chen, Thi Vo, Qian Chen. “Direct Imaging of"Patch-Clasping" and Relaxation in Robust and Flexible Nanoparticle Assemblies”. ACS Nano (2024)
ACS Nano
Lili Liu, Sakshi Yadav Schmid, Zhaojie Feng, Dongsheng Li, Timothy C. Droubay, Peter J. Pauzauskie, Gregory K. Schenter, James J. De Yoreo, Jaehun Chun, Elias Nakouzi. “Effect of Solvent Composition on Non-DLVO Forces and Oriented Attachment of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles”. ACS Nano (2024)
Nature
Gaurav Modi, Shubham K. Parate, Choah Kwon, Andrew C. Meng, Utkarsh Khandelwal, Anudeep Tullibilli, James Horwath, Peter K. Davies, Eric A. Stach, Ju Li, Pavan Nukala, Ritesh Agarwal. “Electrically driven long-range solid-state amorphization in ferroic In2Se3”. Nature (2024)
Next Materials
Ryosuke Shimizu, Diyi Cheng, Guomin Zhu, Bing Han, Thomas S. Marchese, Randall Burger, Mingjie Xu, Xiaoqing Pan, Minghao Zhang, Ying Shirley Meng. “Elucidating dynamic conductive state changes in amorphous lithium lanthanum titanate for resistive switching devices”. Next Materials (2024)
ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces
Thomas Defferriere, Baoming Wang, Julian Klein, Frances M. Ross, Harry L. Tuller. “Field-Driven Solid-State Defect Control of Bilayer Switching Devices”. ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces (2024)
Inorganic Chemistry
Appie Peterson, Sheridon N. Kelly, Trevor Arino, S. Olivia Gunther, Erik T. Ouellette, Jennifer N. Wacker, Joshua J. Woods, Simon J. Teat, Wayne W. Lukens, John Arnold, Rebecca J. Abergel, Stefan G. Minasian. “Formation of Fully Stoichiometric, Oxidation-State Pure Neptunium and Plutonium Dioxides from Molecular Precursors”. Inorganic Chemistry (2024)
Advanced Materials
Saltanat Toleukhanova, Tzu-Hsien Shen, Chen Chang, Swathilakshmi Swathilakshmi, Tecla Bottinelli Montandon, Vasiliki Tileli. “Graphene Electrode for Studying CO2 Electroreduction Nanocatalysts under Realistic Conditions in Microcells”. Advanced Materials (2024)
Crystal Growth & Design
Rui Zhang, Yubo Wang, Yao Geng, Huxiao Xian, Lipiao Bao, Xing Lu. “Growth Mechanism of Hexagonal Zinc Nanocrystals via Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopic”. Crystal Growth & Design (2024)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
Thomas E Gage, Hanyu Hou, Jiangou Wen. “Harnessing Nanosecond STEM Electron Pulses with an Electrostatic Beam Blanker for Angstrom Spatial Resolution in Time-Resolved Studies of Electrically Excited Dynamics”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2024)
Nature Communications
Jonathan Schwartz, Zichao Wendy Di, Yi Jiang, Jason Manassa, Jacob Pietryga, Yiwen Qian, Min Gee Cho, Jonathan L. Rowell, Huihuo Zheng, Richard D. Robinson, Junsi Gu, Alexey Kirilin, Steve Rozeveld, Peter Ercius, Jeffrey A. Fessler, Ting Xu, Mary Scott, Robert Hovden. “Imaging 3D chemistry at 1 nm resolution with fused multi-modal electron tomography”. Nature Communications (2024)
Acta Materialia
Thomas R. Koenig, Hongyu Wang, Yong Zhu, Ankit Gupta, Garritt J. Tucker, Gregory B. Thompson. “In situ characterization of thermomechanically loaded solution strengthened, nanocrystalline nickel alloys”. Acta Materialia (2024)