February 2025
- Dana’s paper on “Atomic Engineering of Triangular Nanopores in Monolayer hBN for Membrane Applications: A Decoupled Seeding and Growth Approach” is published in ACS Applied Nano Materials.
January 2025
- Dana and Frances visit Quentin Ramasse and Demie Kepaptsoglou at the SuperSTEM lab in the UK for STEM-EELS investigations of defects in 2D hBN using Nion UltraSTEM 100 MC HERMES instrument.
- Sherry’s paper on “Focused helium ion beam nanofabrication by near-surface swelling” is published in JVSTB, receiving Editor’s Pick and cover page honors!
December 2024
- Frances gives invited talk in the EIPBN WIN seminar series: “Exploring atomic effects across scales”.
October 2024
- Frances visits Advanced Instrumentation for Nano-Analytics (AINA) group at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, and RAITH HQ in Dortmund, Germany, to demo new FIB-SIMS instrument.
July 2024
- Dana’s paper on “Probing Defectivity Beneath the Hydrocarbon Blanket in 2D hBN Using TEM-EELS” is published in Microscopy and Microanalysis.
May 2024
- Sherry wins Best Poster Award and Best Ion Micrograph Award at EIPBN Meeting in La Jolla!
- Frances gives invited talk at EIPBN Meeting in La Jolla: “Harnessing charged particle beams to tailor defects by design”.
- Katja Höflich, our collaborator from the Ferdinand-Braun-Institut Berlin, visits and gives a special seminar: “Direct is beautiful: exploiting the full potential of focused electron and ion beams for nanofabrication”.
April 2024
- Dana gives her talk on “Advanced chemical characterization of sub-nm pores in 2D hBN” at the Spring MRS meeting in Seattle and we visit the STEM-EELS lab of collaborator Juan Carlos Idrobo at the University of Washington.
January 2024
- Dana wins Nature Water poster prize at the Nanofluidics 2024 conference in Lenzerheide, Switzerland!
- Our paper on the fabrication of organometallic tips for dynamic AFM of biomolecules in liquid is published by ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces: Collaboration with Bibiana Onoa (Innovative Genomics Institute, UCB) and José María de Teresa (U. Zaragoza, Spain).
≤ December 2023
- Lots happened, just no webpage!