In-situ imaging techniques for advanced battery development

H Yang, P Tang, N Piao, J Li, X Shan, K Tai, J Tan… - Materials Today, 2022 - Elsevier
Currently, the demand for clean energy to replace fossil energy is increasing dramatically,
which is driving the fast development of lithium batteries and other advanced battery …

A comprehensive review of the pyrolysis process: From carbon nanomaterial synthesis to waste treatment

M Devi, S Rawat, S Sharma - Oxford Open Materials Science, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Thermally induced chemical decomposition of organic materials in the absence of oxygen is
defined as pyrolysis. This process has four major application areas:(i) production of carbon …

Direct observation of nanoscale dynamics of ferroelectric degradation

Q Huang, Z Chen, MJ Cabral, F Wang, S Zhang… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Failure of polarization reversal, ie, ferroelectric degradation, induced by cyclic electric
loadings in ferroelectric materials, has been a long-standing challenge that negatively …

Real-space visualization of a defect-mediated charge density wave transition

JL Hart, H Pan, S Siddique, N Schnitzer… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - pnas.org
We study the coupled charge density wave (CDW) and insulator-to-metal transitions in the
2D quantum material 1T-TaS2. By applying in situ cryogenic 4D scanning transmission …

Graphene Microheater Chips for In Situ TEM

J Zhao, L Liang, S Tang, G Zhang, Y Su, Y Zhao… - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Low-dimensional materials are bringing significant innovations to in situ TEM
characterization. Here a new graphene microheater chip for TEM was developed by …

In operando cryo-STEM of pulse-induced charge density wave switching in TaS2

JL Hart, S Siddique, N Schnitzer, SD Funni… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The charge density wave material 1T-TaS2 exhibits a pulse-induced insulator-to-metal
transition, which shows promise for next-generation electronics such as memristive memory …

Advanced microheater for in situ transmission electron microscopy; enabling unexplored analytical studies and extreme spatial stability

JT van Omme, M Zakhozheva, RG Spruit, M Sholkina… - Ultramicroscopy, 2018 - Elsevier
In this work we present our advanced in situ heating sample carrier for transmission electron
microscopy (TEM). The TEM is a powerful tool for materials characterization, especially …

Microheater Chips with Carbon Nanotube Resistors

Z Zhao, J Zhao, L Liang, Y Zhou, Z Mei… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
The specific and excellent properties of the low-dimensional nanomaterials have made them
promising building blocks to be integrated into microelectromechanical systems with high …

[HTML][HTML] Enabling nanoscale flexoelectricity at extreme temperature by tuning cation diffusion

L Molina-Luna, S Wang, Y Pivak, A Zintler… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Any dielectric material under a strain gradient presents flexoelectricity. Here, we synthesized
0.75 sodium bismuth titanate− 0.25 strontium titanate (NBT-25ST) core–shell nanoparticles …

[HTML][HTML] Weld-free mounting of lamellae for electrical biasing operando TEM

O Recalde-Benitez, Y Pivak, T Jiang, R Winkler… - Ultramicroscopy, 2024 - Elsevier
Recent advances in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS)-based substrates and sample
holders for in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) are currently enabling exciting …