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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)
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)
Small
Serin Lee, Tommy Watanabe, Frances M. Ross, Jeung Hun Park. "Temperature Dependent Growth Kinetics of Pd Nanocrystals: Insights from Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy". Small, 20(51). (2024).
Nano Letters
Magdalena Parlinska-Wojtan, Tomasz Roman Tarnawski, Joanna Depciuch, Maria Letizia De Marco, Kamil Sobczak, Krzysztof Matlak, Mirosława Pawlyta, Robin E. Schaeublin, See Wee Chee. "Understanding the Growth of Electrodeposited PtNi Nanoparticle Films Using Correlated In Situ Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy and Synchrotron Radiation." Nano Letters, 24(40), 12361–12367. (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)
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)
Small
Jiamin Tian, Dongying Lin, Xuan Li, Kewei Wang, Bocheng Yu, Menglan Li, Shimin Hou, Zhihong Li, Qing Chen. “The Growth and Shape Evolution of Indium Nanoplates Studied by In Situ Liquid Cell TEM”. Small (2024)
Cell Reports Physical Science
Chang Liu, Wonil Jung, Sungho Jeon, Grayson Johnson, Zixiao Shi, Langqiu Xiao, Shengsong Yang, Cheng-Yu Chen, Jun Xu, Cherie R. Kagan, Sen Zhang, David A. Muller, Eric A. Stach, Christopher B. Murray, Thomas E. Mallouk. “Stabilizing alkaline fuel cells with a niobium-doped brookite titanium dioxide catalyst support”. Cell Reports Physical Science (2024)
ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces
Ji Hoon Choi, Hak Hyeon Lee, Sungho Jeon, Swagotom Sarker, Dong Su Kim, Eric A. Stach, Hyung Koun Cho. “Photoilluminated Redox-Processed Rh2P Nanoparticles on Photocathodes for Stable Hydrogen Production in Acidic Environments”. ACS Applied Materials \& Interfaces (2024)
ACS Nano
Zhiheng Lyu, Lehan Yao, Zhisheng Wang, Chang Qian, Zuochen Wang, Jiahui Li, Chang Liu, Yufeng Wang, Qian Chen. “Nanoscopic Imaging of Self-Propelled Ultrasmall Catalytic Nanomotors”. ACS Nano (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)
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)
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)
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
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)
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)
ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces
Beatriz Ávila-Bolívar, Mauricio Lopez Luna, Fengli Yang, Aram Yoon, Vicente Montiel, José Solla-Gullón, See Wee Chee, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya. “Revealing the Intrinsic Restructuring of Bi2O3 Nanoparticles into Bi Nanosheets during Electrochemical CO2 Reduction”. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (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)
Microscopy and Microanalysis
See Wee Chee, Aram Yoon, Shih-Yu Fu, Beatriz Roldan Cuenya. “Tracking Morphology and Chemical State of Electrocatalysts during Reaction through Correlated Electron Microscopy, X-ray Microscopy and X-ray Absorption Spectroscopy Experiments”. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2024)