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In a recent paper published in ACS Nano, researchers from particle technology and theory have worked together with our "tomo-boys" to decrypt the free energy landscape of colloidal clusters in sphere confinement, using the model system of polystyrene (PS) particles. This work sheds light to understa...

The continuous efforts the teaching team made at the chair has paid off. The Lecture “Rasterelektronenmikroskopie in der Materialforschung” given by Peter Schweizer has received first place out of 63 in the teaching evaluation of the technical faculty (category VP5). The lecture deals with the worki...

Transition metal oxides, such as TiO2, ZnO or MoO2, and transition metal chalcogenides like WS2 or MoS2 represent two classes of functional materials, both hold great promise for applications in nanotechnology, ranging from energy storage to microelectronics. In a recent work "Transforming layered M...

A kick-off meeting between CENEM/IMN and OICE (Optical Imaging Center Erlangen) was held in a relaxed atmosphere in late afternoon 28 of May. Head of respective institute, Prof. Spiecker and Dr. Palmisano gave short introduction to each institute. While sharing the same floor in the new IZNF buildin...

The special symposium of “Correlative and in situ Microscopy in Materials Research”, held during 1-4.April as part of the DPG2019 (annual meeting of German Physical Society)  in Regensburg, was a great success. The four-day symposium was co-organized by Prof. Erdmann Spiecker and Dr. Johannes Wil...

After a construction of less than 3 years, the new IZNF building is handed over to FAU earlier this year. With intense planing and active involvement of many members, we could smoothly moved into the new IZNF building. Thank all who made this possible!

Christina Harreiss won the best poster awards out of 65 posters, during the workshop "Microscopy Characterization of Organic-Inorganic Interfaces 2019 (MCOII-2019)", with her outstanding presentation of “Crystallinity, Texture and Nanomorphology of Oganic Bulk Heterojuction Solar Cells Studied by El...

After the last official working day in the university, Petra Rosner, our friend, colleague and technician, is entering her retirement life. Thank you for your dedication to work in FAU, materials science, WW7 and WW9, in particular your pursuit of excellence in TEM sample preparation for the past 40...

The tension/compression asymmetries of materials, i.e., changing the mechanism loading directions while keeping all other parameters identical, is particularly interesting as it provides insight into the elementary defect mechanisms. In a recent work published in Acta Materialia (click here), resear...

Local electrostatic field at sharp field emission tips is key to answer fundamental questions of how the field interacts with these tips. Despite a long history of study, three-dimensional (3D) electrostatic fields at nanometer resolution around sharp tips have not been experimentally quantified. Si...