Workshop on Complex and Active Materials – a Kick-off meeting of the UCI MRSEC

Thursday, November 5, 2020
Session Chair: Xiaoqing Pan
8:30 – 9:00Opening Remarks by Prof. Pramod Khargonekar, Vice Chancellor for Research
9:00 – 9:30Xiaoqing Pan, Overview of UCI MRSEC
9:30 – 10:00Tim Rupert, IRG 1
10:00 – 10:30Zhibin Guan, IRG 2
10:30 – 10:45Regina Regan, Education/Outreach
10:45 – 11:00Break
11:15 – 11:45Greg Rohrer
Carnegie Mellon University

High Throughput Studies of Metal Oxide Water Splitting Catalysts for the Development of Structure-Property Relations
11:45 – 12:30Paul Voyles
University of Wisconsin – Madison

Relationships Between Stability, Structure, and Dynamics in Glasses and Their Liquids
12:30 – 1:30Lunch
Session Chair: Ruqian Wu
1:30 – 2:15Ramamoorthy Ramesh
UC Berkeley & LBNL

Observation of Rroom Temperature Polar Skyrmions
2:15 – 3:00Wilson Ho
UC Irvine

Atomic Scale Inelastic Electron Excitation Spectroscopy and Microscopy
3:30 – 3:45Break
Session Chair: Zhibin Guan
3:45 – 4:30Phillip Messersmith
UC Berkeley & LBNL

Supramolecular Polymers for Tissue Regeneration
4:30 – 5:15Takuzo Aida
RIKEN CEMS & University of Tokyo

Supramolecular Polymerization: Its Significance and Applications
5:15Closing remarks (Ruqian Wu)

3rd International Symposium on Advanced Microscopy and Spectroscopy (ISAMS-3)

Friday, November 6, 2020
Session I: Noble Imaging and Spectroscopy of advanced Materials

Session Chair: Xiaoqing Pan
8:00 – 8:30Angus Kirkland
University of Oxford

Developments in High Speed Structural Imaging of Low Dimensional Materials
8:30 – 9:00Elizabeth Dickey
North Carolina State University
Local Structure Phenomena in Oxide Dielectrics
9:00 – 9:30Frances Ross
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Opportunities for Understanding Crystal Growth through in situ Electron Microscopy
9:30 – 10:00David McComb
Ohio State University

Monochromated EELS of Organic Functional Materials in the STEM
10:00-10:30Break
Session II: Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy

Session Chair: Joe Patterson
10:30 – 11:00See Wee Chee
Fritz-Haber-Institut der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft

Revealing the Dynamics of Electrocatalysts under Reaction Conditions using Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy
11:00 – 11:30Qian Chen
University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Liquid-Phase TEM Imaging of Colloidal Crystallization and Protein Transformation
11:30 – 12:00Joe Patterson
UC Irvine

A Close Look at Material Synthesis with Liquid Phase and Cryo Electron Microscopy
12:00 – 1:00Lunch
Session III: Cryo-EM in Materials/Biological sciences

Session Chair: Shane Gonen
1:00 – 1:30Hong Zhou
University of California, Los Angeles

The cryoEM revolution: from proteins to genomes, & from in situ to in action
1:30 – 2:00Brent Nannenga
Arizona State University

High-resolution structure determination by Microcrystal Electron Diffraction (MicroED)
2:00 – 2:30Lena Kourkoutis
Cornell University

Progress in Cryogenic STEM for Quantum and Energy Materials
2:30 – 3:00John Watt
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Limiting Damage and Capturing Dynamics of Soft Matter and Beam Sensitive Materials
3:00 – 3:30Break
Session IV: In-situ S/TEM

Session Chair: Toshiro Aoki
3:30 – 4:00Judith Yang
University of Pittsburgh

The Surface Dynamics of the Initial Stages of Cu Oxidation
4:00 – 4:30Wei-Chang D. Yang
National Institute of Standards and Technology

Probing Surface-Plasmon-Induced Reactions using a Multimodal Approach for Environmental Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
4:30 – 5:00Ray Unocic
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Atomic Engineering of 2D Materials: Insights from In Situ STEM Experiments, Theory and Functional Properties
5:00 – 5:30Xuedong Bai
Chinese Academy of Sciences

Atomic-Scale Observation of Structural Manipulation in Metal Oxides by in-situ TEM
Saturday, November 7, 2020
Session V: 4D STEM

Session Chair: Xiaoqing Pan
8:00 – 8:30Peter Nellist
University of Oxford

Low-dose 2D and 4D STEM Imaging of Beam-sensitive Materials
8:30 – 9:00Colin Ophus
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Materials Science Applications of 4D-STEM
9:00 – 9:30Peter Ercius
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

The 4D Camera – An Electron Counting Camera for 4D-STEM Experiments
9:30 – 10:00Xiaoqing Pan
UC Irvine

Probing the Local Charge and Phonons of Single Defects by Electron Microscopy
10:00 – 10:30Break
Session VI: STEM EELS

Session Chair: Huolin Xin
10:30 – 11:00Peter Crozier
Arizona State University

Exploring Phononic Excitations with Monochromated STEM EELS
11:00 – 11:30Christoph Koch
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Maximizing the Information Extracted from Monochromated EELS and Zero-Loss Filtered 4D-STEM using a Hybrid Pixel Direct Detector with High Dynamic Range
11:30 – 12:00Juan Carlos Idrobo
Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Mapping Electron Interactions with a Pocket-Sized Synchrotron (i.e., STEM)
12:00 – 12:30Huolin Xin
UC Irvine

From making disinfectants and rocket fuels to powering heavy-duty vehicles — intermetallics and non-PGM biomimetic catalysts for small molecule activation
12:30Closing Remark