This review highlights recent efforts on applying electron microscopy (EM) to soft (including
biological) nanomaterials. We will show how developments of both the hardware and …

Classical nucleation and crystal growth theories describe how nuclei form, become stable
after reaching a critical size and then enlarge through monomer attachment. More than two …

Electrocatalysis has been the cornerstone for enhancing energy efficiency, minimizing
environmental impacts and carbon emissions, and enabling a more sustainable way of …

The unique topology and physics of chiral superlattices make their self-assembly from
nanoparticles highly sought after yet challenging in regard to (meta) materials,–. Here we …

With remarkable achievements in spatial resolution and its derived analytical techniques,
transmission electron microscopy (TEM) has been capable of probing enriched information …

Liquids and solids are two fundamental states of matter. However, our understanding of their
three-dimensional atomic structure is mostly based on physical models. Here we use atomic …

Catalysts are the primary facilitator in many dynamic processes. Therefore, a thorough
understanding of these processes has vast implications for a myriad of energy systems. The …

Metastable phases—kinetically favoured structures—are ubiquitous in nature,. Rather than
forming thermodynamically stable ground-state structures, crystals grown from high-energy …

The ability of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) to image a structure ranging from
millimetres to Ångströms has made it an indispensable component of the toolkit of modern …

Heteroepitaxial modification of nanomaterials has become a powerful means to create novel
functionalities for various applications. One of the most elementary factors in heteroepitaxial …