Chemical Sciences Division Research Highlights

Research Highlights

High-Performance Interfaces for Safe Batteries

November 15, 2016

Scientific Achievement A self-limiting phase transformation was discovered between a solid electrolyte (SE) and Li-metal using real time, in situ scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). Significance and Impact This new strategy can be used to

High-Performance Interfaces for Safe Batteries

November 9, 2016

Engineering Materials for Ultrafast Charge Transfer

November 9, 2016

Improving the Functionality of Atomically Thin Layered Materials

October 18, 2016

Controlled Growth of Monodisperse Au-Pd Nanoicosahedra with Alloy or Core-Shell Morphologies

October 18, 2016

Direct-write, Liquid Phase Nanofabrication using a Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope

September 21, 2016

Acid Sites on the Nanoscale Control the Initial Stage of Coke Formation in a Class of Zeolites

September 12, 2016

Brillouin Light Scattering has revealed the presence of an interfacial layer that controls mechanical reinforcement. By fitting BLS data (red) with a continuum model (blue) the shear modulus of the interface was determined. Inset: The BE SPM work has enab

Key to mechanical reinforcement of glassy polymer nanocomposites has been unraveled

July 26, 2016

Scientists have unraveled details of the mechanism of mechanical reinforcement in glassy polymer nanocomposites.1 Measurements in the interfacial layer ~2–4 nm around nanoparticles revealed that Young’s modulus, which defines the relationship between

Petascale Simulations to Guide the Rational Tunability of Polymer Composites

July 19, 2016

Quantum critical behavior in a concentrated solid solution: a new twist on structural alloys

May 25, 2016

Concentrated transition metal alloys with the formula NiCoCrx, with x≈1, and a simple cubic crystal structure, display transport, magnetic and thermodynamic signatures exhibited by more structurally complex compounds near a quantum critical point (QCP).

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