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:

• Imaging 3D chemistry at 1 nm resolution with fused multi-modal electron tomography, Nature Communications (2024)

• Endotaxial stabilization of 2D charge density waves with long-range order, Nature Communications (2024)

• Torsional periodic lattice distortions and diffraction of twisted 2D materials, Nature Communications (2022)

• Magnetic anisotropy reversal driven by structural symmetry-breaking in monolayer α-RuCl3, Nature Materials (2022)

• Real-time 3D analysis during electron tomography using tomviz, Nature Comm. (2022)

• Two-dimensional charge order stabilized in clean polytype heterostructures, Nature Comm. (2022)

• Imaging atomic-scale chemistry from fused multi-modal electron microscopy, npj Computational Materials (2022)

• 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)

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