Our lab works at the forefront of atomic imaging using high-energy electron beams to discover exotic electronic or structural behavior in materials. Utilizing electron microscopy we unveil how atomic and nanoscale architecture governs material properties at the macroscale — spanning a wide class of systems including quantum materials, next-generation clean energy devices, and biominerals. Students and researchers in the lab work at the intersection of materials physics, electron microscopy, and data science.

Selected Manuscripts:

• Bending and breaking of stripes in a charge ordered manganite, Nature Communications (2017)

• Atomic lattice disorder in charge-density-wave phases of exfoliated dichalcogenides (1T-TaS2), Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2016)

• Nanoscale assembly processes revealed in the nacroprismatic transition zone of Pinna nobilis mollusc shells, Nature Communications (2015)

• Nanomaterial datasets to advance tomography in scanning transmission electron microscopy, Nature Scientific Data (2016)

• Channeling of a subangstrom electron beam in a crystal mapped to two-dimensional molecular orbitals, Phys. Rev. B. (2012)