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:

• The mesoscale order of nacreous pearls, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. (2021)

• Atomic and electronic reconstruction at the van der Waals interface in twisted bilayer graphene, Nature Materials (2019)

• Nanoscale deformation mechanics reveal resilience in nacre of Pinna nobilis shell, Nature Communications (2019)

• Stacking, strain, and twist in 2D materials quantified by 3D electron diffraction, Phys. Rev. Mat. (2019)

• 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)

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