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 …

Electron tomography in the (S) TEM: from nanoscale morphological analysis to 3D atomic imaging

Z Saghi, PA Midgley - Annual Review of Materials Research, 2012 - annualreviews.org
In this short review, we discuss recent developments in electron tomography with examples
across a range of materials science and nanotechnology. Challenges related to extending …

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 …

Electron tomography reveals details of the internal microstructure of desalination membranes

TE Culp, Y Shen, M Geitner, M Paul… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
As water availability becomes a growing challenge in various regions throughout the world,
desalination and wastewater reclamation through technologies such as reverse osmosis …

Advanced reconstruction algorithms for electron tomography: from comparison to combination

B Goris, T Roelandts, KJ Batenburg, HH Mezerji, S Bals - Ultramicroscopy, 2013 - Elsevier
In this work, the simultaneous iterative reconstruction technique (SIRT), the total variation
minimization (TVM) reconstruction technique and the discrete algebraic reconstruction …

Multi-functional ultrasonic micro-elastography imaging system

X Qian, T Ma, M Yu, X Chen, KK Shung, Q Zhou - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
In clinical decision making, in addition to anatomical information, biomechanical properties
of soft tissues may provide additional clues for disease diagnosis. Given the fact that most of …

Three-dimensional electron tomography and recent expansion of its applications in materials science

N Baba, S Hata, H Saito, K Kaneko - Microscopy, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Electron tomography (ET) is a powerful tool for elucidating the properties and functionalities
of materials. The innovative development of aberration-corrected electron microscopy in the …

Secondary electron induced current in scanning transmission electron microscopy: an alternative way to visualize the morphology of nanoparticles

E Vlasov, A Skorikov, A Sánchez-Iglesias… - ACS Materials …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electron tomography (ET) is a powerful tool to determine the three-dimensional (3D)
structure of nanomaterials in a transmission electron microscope. However, the acquisition …

Quantitative three-dimensional characterization of block copolymer directed self-assembly on combined chemical and topographical prepatterned templates

T Segal-Peretz, J Ren, S **ong, G Khaira, A Bowen… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Characterization of the three-dimensional (3D) structure in directed self-assembly (DSA) of
block copolymers is crucial for understanding the complex relationships between the …

The properties of SIRT, TVM, and DART for 3D imaging of tubular domains in nanocomposite thin-films and sections

D Chen, B Goris, F Bleichrodt, HH Mezerji, S Bals… - Ultramicroscopy, 2014 - Elsevier
In electron tomography, the fidelity of the 3D reconstruction strongly depends on the
employed reconstruction algorithm. In this paper, the properties of SIRT, TVM and DART …