Tomographic X-ray imaging techniques offer novel opportunities for studying membranes
and membrane processes in 3D on a spatial resolution not seen before. Traditional 2D …

Nanoporous metals made by dealloying take the form of macroscopic (mm-or cm-sized)
porous bodies with a solid fraction of around 30%. The material exhibits a network structure …

Hard X-ray nanotomography enables 3D investigations of a wide range of samples with high
resolution (< 100 nm) with both synchrotron-based and laboratory-based setups. However …

An in-house designed transmission X-ray microscopy (TXM) instrument has been developed
and commissioned at beamline BL18B of the Shanghai Synchrotron Radiation Facility …

The structure of a freeze-dried material is essential for its ability to preserve and protect
biologics such as proteins, cells and other sensitive structures. The structure of a typical …

The combination of focused ion beam (FIB) with scanning electron microscopy (SEM), also
known as FIB-SEM tomography, has become a powerful 3D imaging technique at the …

Two in situnanoreactors' for high-resolution imaging of catalysts have been designed and
applied at the hard X-ray nanoprobe endstation at beamline P06 of the PETRA III …

The management and processing of synchrotron and neutron computed tomography data
can be a complex, labor-intensive and unstructured process. Users devote substantial time …

The hierarchical pore systems of Pt/Al2O3 exhaust gas aftertreatment catalysts were
analyzed with a collection of correlative imaging techniques to monitor changes induced by …

At the microscale, various materials from biological tissues to nanoporous metals are formed
by networks of ligaments. Here we propose a highly efficient simulated annealing (SA) …