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September 19, 2011

Characterization of Energy Materials Using Advanced Techniques in the Electron Microscope

Dr. Ilke Arslan
University of California, Davis

Darwin 103
4:00 PM

Dr. Ilke Arslan of the University of California, Davis: In recent years, nanotechnology has become a major component of research in materials physics, placing rigorous demands on characterization methods to determine structure-property relationships. Since most energy materials are nanomaterials, understanding their morphology in three dimensions (3-D) is a key first step in their characterization, which is performed here using electron tomography in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM). The 3-D imaging is complemented with in-situ liquid stage and ex-situ gas assembly experiments for a more complete materials understanding. [Available on DVD in the SSU library.]