“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think.”
Albert Einstein

 
   

Biasing of BaTiO3 nanodomains
credit: R. Ignatans
Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3-δ in air
credit: T.-H. Shen
Electrochemical liquid-phase TEM
credit: R. Girod

Mission

Our mission at INE is to understand on a fundamental level the nanoscale properties of functional materials using in situ transmission electron microscopy techniques. We focus on nucleation and growth, phase transformations, surface reconstructions, and degradation mechanisms of nanostructures and we probe how the nanomaterials properties are affected by changes in temperature, electric field, and gaseous and/or liquid environment. We develop the techniques in order to dynamically observe the changes as they happen during real-time operation of their bulk counterparts. Such measurements have important implications on the design and development of modern technologies including electrochemical storage systems and computing devices.

 

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