Soil aggregate microbial communities: towards understanding microbiome interactions at biologically relevant scales

RL Wilpiszeski, JA Aufrecht, ST Retterer… - Applied and …, 2019‏ - Am Soc Microbiol
Soils contain a tangle of minerals, water, nutrients, gases, plant roots, decaying organic
matter, and microorganisms which work together to cycle nutrients and support terrestrial …

Advanced electron microscopy for advanced materials

G Van Tendeloo, S Bals, S Van Aert… - Advanced …, 2012‏ - Wiley Online Library
The idea of this Review is to introduce newly developed possibilities of advanced electron
microscopy to the materials science community. Over the last decade, electron microscopy …

[PDF][PDF] Porosity and pore size distribution

JR Nimmo - Encyclopedia of Soils in the Environment, 2004‏ - wwwrcamnl.wr.usgs.gov
A soil's porosity and pore size distribution characterize its pore space, that portion of the
soil's volume that is not occupied by or isolated by solid material. The basic character of the …

Electron tomography based on a total variation minimization reconstruction technique

B Goris, W Van den Broek, KJ Batenburg, HH Mezerji… - Ultramicroscopy, 2012‏ - Elsevier
The 3D reconstruction of a tilt series for electron tomography is mostly carried out using the
weighted backprojection (WBP) algorithm or using one of the iterative algorithms such as the …

Three-dimensional morphology of iron oxide nanoparticles with reactive concave surfaces. A compressed sensing-electron tomography (CS-ET) approach

Z Saghi, DJ Holland, R Leary, A Falqui, G Bertoni… - Nano …, 2011‏ - ACS Publications
In this paper, we apply electron tomography (ET) to the study of the three-dimensional (3D)
morphology of iron oxide nanoparticles (NPs) with reactive concave surfaces. The ability to …

Ultrastructure and nanoporosity of human bone shown with correlative on-axis electron and spectroscopic tomographies

C Micheletti, FA Shah, A Palmquist, K Grandfield - ACS nano, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
Mineralized collagen fibrils are the building block units of bone at the nanoscale. While it is
known that collagen fibrils are mineralized both inside their gap zones (intra-fibrillar …

Mesoscale structure, mechanics, and transport properties of source rocks' organic pore networks

J Berthonneau, A Obliger… - Proceedings of the …, 2018‏ - National Acad Sciences
Organic matter is responsible for the generation of hydrocarbons during the thermal
maturation of source rock formation. This geochemical process engenders a network of …

[HTML][HTML] Wafer-scale fabrication of non-polar mesoporous GaN distributed Bragg reflectors via electrochemical porosification

T Zhu, Y Liu, T Ding, WY Fu, J Jarman, CX Ren… - Scientific reports, 2017‏ - nature.com
Abstract Distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) are essential components for the development
of optoelectronic devices. For many device applications, it is highly desirable to achieve not …

A relationship between the geometrical structure of a nanoporous metal foam and its modulus

R Liu, A Antoniou - Acta Materialia, 2013‏ - Elsevier
One of the crucial characteristics of a porous medium is its relative density ρ*, ie the volume
fraction of the solid. For example, in low density foams (ρ*< 0.1) the macroscopic material …

The evolution of carbon nanotube network structure in unidirectional nanocomposites resolved by quantitative electron tomography

B Natarajan, N Lachman, T Lam, D Jacobs, C Long… - ACS …, 2015‏ - ACS Publications
Carbon nanotube (CNT) reinforced polymers are next-generation, high-performance,
multifunctional materials with a wide array of promising applications. The successful …