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The routine and unique determination of minor phases in microstructures is critical to materials science. In metallurgy alone, applications include alloy and process development and the understanding of degradation in service. We develop a…
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Hybrid high-order (HHO) methods are numerical methods characterized by several interesting properties such as local conservativity, geometric flexibility and high-order accuracy. Here, HHO schemes are studied for the space…
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Surfaces of rutile-like RuO2, especially the most stable (110) surface, are important for catalysis, sensing and charge storage applications. Structure, chemical composition, and properties of the surface depend on external conditions.…
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) was used to probe the surface chemistry of chlorine-terminated silicon nanocrystal (Si-NC) surfaces in an air-free environment. SERS effect was observed from the thin films of Ag$_x$O using 514 nm…
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The type and distribution of oxygen functional groups in graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxide (RGO) remain still a subject of great debate. Local analytic techniques are required to access the chemistry of these materials at a…
Structurally and chemically complex materials such as amorphous metallosilicates underpin major catalytic and separation technologies, yet their intrinsic complexity challenges reliable atomistic modeling under realistic conditions.…
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) has emerged as a powerful tool for studying the structural heterogeneity of proteins and their complexes, offering insights into macromolecular dynamics directly within cells. Driven by recent…
Various techniques have been developed to measure the 2D and 3D positions and 2D and 3D orientations of fluorescent molecules with improved precision over standard epifluorescence microscopes. Due to the challenging signal-to-background…
In this study, we propose a novel approach for investigating the formation of solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) in Na-ion batteries (NIB) through the coupling of in situ liquid electrochemical transmission electron microscopy (ec-TEM) and…
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Volume electron microscopy is the method of choice for the in-situ interrogation of cellular ultrastructure at the nanometer scale. Recent technical advances have led to a rapid increase in large raw image datasets that require…
La$_2$NiO$_{4+\delta}$ has attracted increasing interest in recent years, both as oxygen electrode in solid oxide fuel cells and electrolysers due to its high electrochemical activity at intermediate to high temperatures, and as key…