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New Structural Insights into Inert-Exfoliated 2D Metal Diborides
October 09, 2024 - To expand the use of semimetallic two-dimensional materials, researchers from institutions including Trinity College Dublin, Ulm University, and the University of Chemistry and Technology in Prague have developed a method for inert liquid exfoliation of metal diborides. This technique enables the production of thin films with enhanced stability and metallic conductivity by minimizing oxidation. Using a Langmuir-type deposition, the team created stable MgB₂, CrB₂, and ZrB₂ films that show potential as flexible electrodes in printed electronics.
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Defect Influence on Lithium Crystallization in Graphene Layers Observed via TEM
July 18, 2024 - Despite extensive research focusing on improving performance such as energy and power density, lithium ion batteries suffer from capacity loss and resistance increase, leading to both energy and power fade during usage. Researchers from the Univeristy and the Helmholtz Institute in Ulm, Germany, the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, CEOS GmbH, the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, the University of Science and Technology of China in Hefei as well as the Qufu Normal University in China have now reported a new study of the behavior of nucleation and crystal formation during lithiation and delithiation at the atomic scale.
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Crystallinity of Different Layers of Stacked 2D MoS₂ Systems observed in the TEM
July 1, 2024 - The characteristics of Molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂), known for being one of the most intriguing two-dimensional material, can be notably modified by its crystallinity. Researchers from the Univeristy of Ulm have introduce a technique for extracting subtle intensity differences in C_C/C_S-corrected HRTEM images that allows to discern chalcogen vacancies in the middle layer of trilayer MoS₂.
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New Guidelines for the Design of 2D Polymer Architectures Investigated with TEM
May 08, 2024 - 2D crystals are often required to be processed into films, which are inevitably polycrystalline and contain numerous grain boundaries, and therefore are brittle and fragile, hindering application in flexible electronics, optoelectronics and separation. A team of scientists from the Sun Yat-sen and Guangdong University and research institutions in China and Universities in Dresden, Ulm and Bielefeld in Germany has reported a method to produce highly strong, tough and elastic films of an emerging class of 2D crystals.
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Novel Inner and Outer Functionalization of SWCNTs Characterized by TEM
March 15, 2024 - Despite extensive research, achieving stable functionalization of single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) without altering their structure remains challenging. Researchers from Ulm University and the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg have now developed a new method for simultaneous inside and outside functionalization of SWCNTs. This technique uses positively charged macrocycles to bind to the nanotubes and encapsulate polyiodide chains within, offering potential for energy storage applications.
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SHORT: New Insights into Damage Mechanisms in 2D c-MOFs at the Sub-Ångström Scale
March 01, 2024 - Knowledge of the atomic structure of layer-stacked two-dimensional conjugated metal–organic frameworks (2D c-MOFs) is an essential prerequisite for establishing their structure–property correlation. Scientists from Ulm and Nottingham University in Germany and UK have provided further detailed insights into the factors that enhance the stability of 2D c-MOFs in TEM, enabling the resolution of all structural features.
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SHORT: Atomically Precise 2D Polymers with Kagome Lattice and High Conductivity
February 21, 2024 - Two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures (2D vdWhs) are of significant interest due to their tunable physical properties defined by the constituent monolayers. Scientists from the Max Planck Institutes of Microstructure Physics and Polymer Research have together with Universities in Dresden, Ulm and Göttingen, Germany and Seoul, Korea and the Hekmholtz Centre Dresden-Rossendorf fabricated a new type of 2D vdWh with defined interfacial band alignment and interlayer coupling.
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Trapped atoms form 1D gas and dimers
January 22, 2024 - Scientists have successfully trapped atoms of krypton (Kr), a noble gas, inside a carbon nanotube to form a one-dimensional gas. A team from the Universities of Nottingham, Ulm, Queensland, Southamptin, and Leeds and the SuperSTEM Laboratory have development of a molecular system for the delivery and direct observation of krypton atom dynamics in direct space and real time.
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Fifth SALVE Symposium 2023
September 25-28, 2023 - The fifth SALVE Symposium taking place at Ulm University was attended by 111 participants from 16 countries. Latest results of the application of SALVE to topical research on 2D materials were presented throughout the conference.
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Low Contact Resistance in MoTe₂ Based Field-Effect Transistors
July 07, 2023 - Single-layer molybdenum ditelluride has attracted attention due to the smaller energy difference between the semiconducting and semimetallic phases with respect to other two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides. Scientists from the Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia in Pisa and Genova, the University of Ulm in Germany, Lund University in Sweden, Trento University in Italy as well as Sorbonne University in France could advance the understanding of the direct synthesis of lateral heterostructures, thereby contributing to the development of devices with low contact resistance.
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Liquid Exfoliation of Magnetic 2D RuCl₃
April 26, 2023 - α-RuCl₃ is considered particularly interesting for fundamental studies of magnetic properties in low-dimensional structures. A team of researchers from the Universities of Heidelberg, Ulm and Kassel as well as the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research and the Bundeswehr University in Germany, Trinity college in Ireland and the National Institute of Technology Durgapur (India) have demonstrated sonication-assisted liquid exfoliation with confirmed structural integrity.
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Subnanometer wide Indium Selenide Nanoribbons
March 14, 2023 - Indium selenides have been shown to retain several desirable properties, such as ferroelectricity and high electron mobility, when confined to two dimensions (2D). A team of researchers from the Universities of Nottingham (United Kingdom) and Ulm (Germany), as well as the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Diamond Light Source (United Kingdom), has identified new ways to control the phase of sub-nm In_xSe_y nanoribbons that could be important for versatile future nanoelectronic devices.
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Atom-by-Atom Transformation of Few-Layer MnPS₃
February 20, 2023 - Manganese phosphorus trisulfide (MnPS₃) is a particularly interesting material in the context of magnetism in a system with reduced dimensionality. A team of researchers from the Universities of Ulm and the Helmholtz-Centre Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany has presented an experimental and theoretical study on modifying the properties of freestanding quasi-two-dimensional (2D) MnPS₃ by local structural transformations via electron irradiation and thermal annealing that may provide opportunities to build new quantum information storage devices.
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Deep Learning in Amorphous Two-Dimensional Materials Data Science
October 13, 2022 - In recent years, 2D amorphous materials with moderate bandgaps have been developed. Scientists from the University of Ulm (Germany), Xi'an Shiyou and Xi'an Jiaotong University (China), and Dresden University of Technology (Germany) have developed a deep-learning pipeline to explore the full range of atomic-resolution quantitative data sets of these materials, which could provide new insights into the structural understanding of short bandgap structures.
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Tuning the Properties of Ultra-Thin Freestanding TMPTs by Controlling their Stoichiometry
September 01, 2022 - Transition metal phosphorous trisulfides (TMPTs) are new inorganic materials with inherent magnetic properties. Scientists from the Universities of Ulm (Germany), the Helmholtz-Centre Dresden-Rossendorf (Germany), and the Aalto University (Finland) have presented a detailed analysis of the interaction of the electron beam (30−80 kV) with TMPTs and show the possibility of tuning the properties of ultra-thin freestanding TMPTs by controlling their stoichiometry.
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Electron Beam Engineering of 2D Materials for Integration in Electronic and Optic Sensing Devices
August 15, 2022 - For electronic and optical applications of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their vertical heterostructures, it is important to know the positions, densities, and atomic structures of crystallographic defects. Researchers from the Universities of Ulm and Erlangen-Nürnberg in Germany and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel) have enabled TEM imaging of freestanding 2D materials, followed by experiments on the same sample placed on an arbitrary substrate and integration in devices for electronic and optical sensing.
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High-Optical-Quality Large-Area Monolayer Janus Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
July 30, 2022 - Due to the difference in electronegativity of the top and bottom chalcogen layers, Janus TMDs possess an in-built electric dipole that breaks the out-of-plane plane mirror symmetry, leading to a manifold of novel physical phenomena. Scientists from the Universities of Jena and Ulm (Germany), the University of Toulouse (France), Helmholtz-Centre Dresden-Rossendorf, the National Institute for Materials Science in Tsukuba (JP) as well as the University of Aalto in Finland have demonstrated the growth process of 2D SMoSe of high optical quality, characterized them by complementary experimental techniques and rationalized the growth mechanism by first principle calculations.
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Optimum Accelerating Voltage for 2D Polymers in the TEM
July 08, 2022 - The appropriate selection of the incident electron energy plays a crucial role in achieving a high specimen resolution. An international team of researchers from Germany, China and Korea have now for the first time analyzed the optimu, accelerating voltage for quantitative description of medium and short-range-order in 2D crystalline and amorphous organic thin films.
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Unravelling the Raman Response of Graphene Nanoribbons
June 22, 2022 - Controlling the edge morphology and terminations of graphene nanoribbons (GNR) allows tailoring their electronic properties and boosts their application potential. Scientists from the Universities of Vienna (Austria) of Aveiro (Portugal) and Ulm (Germany), as well as the Sun Yat-sen University, the Huzhou University and the ShanghaiTech University (China), National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba (JP) have developed presented a critical step forward toward the analysis of the nanoribbon-nanotube system encapsulated in CNT to unravel the Raman signatures of the individual CH-modes for GNR with unprecedented detail.
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Fourth SALVE Symposium 2022
June 04-07, 2022 - The 4th SALVE Symposium brought together distinguished scientists from 14 countries to discuss low-voltage instrumentation and its applications.
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Ultrathin ReS₂ Synthesized in a Test Tube
June 01, 2022 - Ultrathin rhenium disulfide (ReS₂) may find future applicationsi in nano-electrodes. A group of researchers from the universities of Nottingham (UK) and Ulm (Germany) has now for the first time synthesized ReS₂ nanoribbons and studied their formation at the single-atom level.
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Synthesis of Tailored Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons
March 01, 2022 - Sub-nanometer armchair graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with moderate band gap have great potential towards novel nanodevices. Scientists from the Sun Yat-sen university the Shanghai Tech university (CN), the universities of Ulm (Germany) and Vienna (Austria), as well as the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba (JP) have explored how the diameter and metallicity of SWCNTs influence the synthesis of the GNRs which may enable the high-yield production of certain armchair graphene nanoribbons in large scale.
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Pressure Alters the Band Structure of 2D Platinum Dichalcogenides
August 16, 2021 - Platinum dichalcogenides exhibit tunability of their electronic properties displaying semimetal to semiconductor transition as they are reduced to bi- or single layers. Scientists from the University of South Florida in the United States as well as the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and the University of Ulm in Germany have grown monolayer and multilayer Pt dichalcogenides on graphene, characterized the samples on the atomic scale and analyzed their band gap. The results indicate that only modest pressures are required for a significant reduction of the gap, making Pt dichalcogenides suitable materials for pressure sensing.
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New Insights in the Intercalaction of Zn²⁺ in α-Mn₂O₃ Zn-Metal Batteries
July 28, 2021 - Cubic α-Mn₂O₃ undergoes an irreversible phase transformation upon discharge during the initial few cycles of an aqueous zinc-metal battery, a new study shows. The researchers from the Helmholtz Institute and the University of Ulm as well as the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany found that this complex electrochemical reaction scheme may guide future research in this type of batteries, which are promising candidates for high-performance large-scale energy storage applications.
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Atom Migration in MoTe₂
June 14, 2021 - Tailoring the local optical and electronic properties of 2D TMDs is a long standing challenge in materials science. Two research groups at the University of Ulm, the Helmholtz-Center Dresden-Rossendorf in Germany and the University of Aalto in Finland have published new findings on atom migrations in single-layer 1H-MoTe₂ in the transmission electron microscope at an electron energy of 40 keV, which should facilitate tailoring the local properties of the material.
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One-Dimensional p-n Junction in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
May 04, 2021 - Lateral heterostructures of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides provide great opportunities for low-power electronics. Researchers from the Universities of Jena and Ulm in Germany and the University of Cambridge in the UK as well as the Leibniz Institut for Photonic Technologies and the Fraunhofer-Institute for Applied Optics and Precision Engineering in Jena, Germany, have fabricated lateral heterostructure devices made from MoS₂ and WSe₂ that were able to be used as rectifiers, solar cells, self-powered photovoltaic photodetectors, ambipolar transistors, and electroluminescent light emitters.
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Restoring Defective Graphene
April 25, 2021 - Graphene as a two-dimensional material is prone to hydrocarbon contaminations, which can significantly alter its intrinsic electrical properties. A team of scientists from the University of Leiden and the Eindhoven University of Technology in the Netherlands and the University of Ulm in Germany has shown that reversible hydrogenation of graphene recovers the intrinsic lattice, yielding a cleaner graphene with higher carrier mobilities.
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Two-Dimensional Polyimide-Graphene Heterostructures
April 09, 2021 - 2D polyimide-graphene van der Waals heterostructures are a promising candidate for ultrafast tunneling devices. Researchers from the Technical University of Dresden, Germany, the Leibniz Institue for Polymer Research Dresden, Germany, and the Group of Electron Microscopy for Materials Science at Ulm University has fabricated and characterized the 2D polymers on graphene, yielding a stable combination with ultrafast interlayer charge transfer.
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Isotopic Labelling of Confined Carbyne
February 18, 2021 - Carbyne is by excellence the one‐dimensional allotrope of carbon consisting of a linear chain of carbon atoms bonded to each other with exceptional strength. A team of scientists from the Universities of Vienna in Austria and Ulm in Germany as well as the Sun Yat-sen University and the ShanghaiTech University in China and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan has shed light on how to engineer the structures and properties of carbyne with isotopic labelling.
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New Insight in Persistent Photoconductivity in MoS₂
January 11, 2021 - (S)TEM can be used for stimulating and observing chemical reactions providing a deeper understanding of reactivity and states of matter at the nanoscale. A team of scientists from the Universities in Jena and Ulm and the IPHT in Germany as well as the National University of Science and Technology in Russia and the Wayne State University in the USA has presented an experimental and theoretical investigation of persistent photoconductivity in CVD grown monolayer MoS₂.
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Inside Carbon Nanotubes: SALVE TEM reveals Graphene Ribbons in the Subnanometer Range
January 01, 2021 - Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are extremely interesting for nanoscale electronics and devices. However, the growth of high-quality GNRs with well-defined widths is still remaining a challenge. Furthermore, the analysis of the electronic properties of GNRs has remained challenging. Scientists from the Sun Yat-sen University in China, the Universities of Vienna, Budapest and Ulm in Europe and the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Japan could now synthesize well-defined sub-nanometer GNRs inside carbon nanotubes (CNTs) and measure their electronic properties.
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Electron Beam Induced Formation and Evolution of Defects in Monolayer WSe₂
September 22, 2020 - Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers have attracted significant interest due to their direct bandgap, which may be influenced by lattice defects. Scientists from the group of electron microscopy for materials science at Ulm university have studied the electron-beam-induced defect dynamics in monolayer WSe₂ by atomically resolved in-situ transmission electron microscopy.
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New Insight in Atomic Permeation through a Defective Carbon Lattice
September 12, 2020 - Permeation and transport of atoms, molecules or ions across membranes is one of the most fundamental phenomena in natural and manmade materials. A team of scientists from the Universities in Ulm, Germany and Nottingham, UK has directly imaged the permeation process of Pd atoms across a defect in a carbon lattice.
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Formation of Crystals Filmed in Atomic Detail
August 28, 2020 - A team of scientists from Germany, UK and Japan shed light on the fundamental phenomenon of nucleation and crystal growth. The direct observation of the entire process of nucleation allowed to distinguish the point at which the particles were large enough to become crystalline.
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Atomic Probe of Bond Dynamics and Reactivity of Individual HF and H₂O atoms
August 20, 2020 - A new study of scientists from the Universities of Ulm (Germany), Nottingham (UK), Southampton (UK) and Leeds (UK) enable bond dynamics and reactivity studies of H₂O and HF at the single-molecule level. The atomic scale study was conducted at low and very low primary energies of 30 - 80 keV in the SALVE microscope and 60 keV in the SuperSTEM microscope by entrapping HF and H₂O molecules within fullerene C₆₀ cages in nanotubes.
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Pioneers of Electron Microscopy Receive the Kavli Prize
May 27, 2020 - The Norwegian Academy of Sciences awards the Kavli Prize for Nanosciences 2020 to Harald H. Rose (University Ulm and Darmstadt), Maximilian Haider (CEOS, Heidelberg), Knut W. Urban (Research Center Jülich) and Ondrej L. Krivanek (Nion, Kirkland) "for sub-Ångström resolution imaging and chemical analysis using electron beams“.
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Carbon Ring Structure to be Essentional for Proton and Lithium Permeation Through Graphene
May 19, 2020 - In a new study, researchers from the Universities of Manchester, Antwerp, Singapore, Jena, Ulm, Tokyo, and Beijing further explore graphene membranes as protective barriers in various Li-ion and hydrogen technologies.
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Defect Formation in Two-Dimensional MoS₂ in Very Low Voltage TEM Likely Caused by Electronic Excitations
March 20, 2020 - The role of electronic excitations for defect production at electron energies below the knock-on threshold is a long-standing question. Using a combination of atomically resolved data from the SALVE TEM and theoretical calculation researchers from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf and Ulm University revealed a new mechanism of defect formation below the knock-on threshold.
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SALVE Microscopists to Explore Bond Breaking and Forming of Individual Diatomic Molecules
Januar 17, 2020 - A new study of a research team from Germany and the UK sheds light on the dynamics of metallic bonds between two atoms in real time and in direct space from examining the correlated motion of a two-atomic molecule directly in the SALVE TEM. It has been shown for the first time that the Re₂ molecules continuously change the binding order between one, two and four.
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Crystalline Quality of MoS₂ from Atomic Resolution Microscopy
November 04, 2019 - A group of researchers from the Universities Toulouse (France), Jena and Ulm (Germany) and the National Institute for Materials Science Tsukubathe (Japan) showed that conventional CVD MoS₂ monolayers possess high optical quality.
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Bottom-up Synthesis of Nanoporous Graphene
May 22, 2019 - Scientists from Germany announced today that they have synthesized new self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) that, after electron irradiation and pyrolysis on copper, can be transformed into graphene sheets with nanopores. Combined dark-field TEM, AC-HRTEM and electron diffraction data confirmed the crystallinity and porosity of the composite material in agreement with a detailed crystallization model.
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Visualization of Unstained DNA Nanostructures at 20 kV
May 10, 2019 - TEM visualization of individual DNA molecules in its native unlabeled form has remained extremely challenging. A team of scientists now compared different strategies to obtain high contrast: Cs/Cc corrected microscopy at very low primary energies, volta-potential phase plate microscopy, and dark-field microscopy.
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Towards Quantum Devices: Single-Layer TMD's under the electron beam.
April 26, 2019 - Control of optical, magnetic and electronic properties of two-dimensional materials in MoTe₂ is an intersting approach to create new quantum devices. Using 40 kV Cs/Cc corrected TEM, scientists now gained insights into the formation and evolution of quantum dots and other nanoscale morphologies.
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Observation of Lithiated Graphene Membranes
December 02, 2018 - The study of the charging of a battery at atomic resolution is an advance that promises the ability to inspire the design of future carbon-based energy storage systems. The process has now been observed at the atomic level with the in situ TEM SALVE.
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Understanding Metal-Graphene Interactions
September 09, 2018 - A new study examining transition metals in carbon nanotubes and published today in Nature Communications was carried out in the Group of Electron Microscopy for Materials Science at Ulm University.
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Chemical Graphene Synthesis Understood
March 15, 2018 - Researchers from Free University Berlin, University Erlangen-Nürnberg and Ulm University have defined the mechanism on which chemical synthesis of graphene from graphite is based.
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Third SALVE Symposium 2017
December 12, 2017 - The 3rd SALVE Symposium brings together distinguished scientists from 17 countries to discuss low-voltage instrumentation and its applications.
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Ceremony for the Inauguration of the SALVE Microscope
December 11, 2017 - SALVE members, funding agencies, the presidents of the national, European and international microscopy societies, as well as the president of the University of Ulm celebrate the inauguration of the SALVE microscope in its purpose-made building.
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The SALVE Microscope Comes Home
September 29, 2017 - There is something to celebrate at Ulm University: the SALVE microscope comes home! The new microscope building has been completed on time for the move.
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Modification With Subnanometer Precision in the (S)TEM
September 08, 2017 - Energy transferred from the e-beam can provide a way to modify 2D materials via defect engineering when the interaction of the beam with the sample is precisely controlled. A team if scientists from Singapore, Austria, Germany, China and the USA has now discussed routes towards e-beam engineering of 2D materials, such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, transition-metal dichalcogenides, and phosphorene in the (S)TEM.
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Nanobubbles and Crystal Growth Monitored in Graphene Pockets
July 24, 2017 - Ulm University physicists and biologists enhance the understanding of dynamics and internal conditions of liquids encapsulated between two graphene sheets. By filming the "graphene liquid cells" they were able to identify constituents of the fluid and thus study the interior pressure and temperature conditions.
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Caught on Camera: Chemical Reactions 'Filmed' at the Single-Molecule Level
March 28, 2017 - Chemists around the world look forward to seeing chemical transformations at the single-molecule level. Now an international team of scientists has published a paper about their observation of two chemical reactions with molecules of similar size and shape but with different chemical composition: octathi[8]circulene (OCT) and perchlorocoronene (PCC) which they caught on camera with atomic resolution using their new method named chemTEM.
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New Endohedral Metallo-Fullerenes
January 11, 2017 - The electron microscope is used not only to image chemical reactions with atomic resolution, but also to initiate these reactions. An international team of scientists has demonstrated the synthesis of new endohedral metallofullerenes (EMFs) within CNT. The study was carried out in the context of the SALVE project in the aberration-corrected high-resolution electron microscope (HRTEM).
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Vibrational Properties of 2D Silica and Kagome Lattice Materials
November 9, 2016 - Little is known about vibrational properties of two-dimensional silica (2D-SiO₂) and its Raman spectrum. A study by European scientists with contribution of the SALVE project, now identified several previously uncharacterized vibrational states of 2D-SiO₂. At finite temperatures, the stability of the lattice is strongly influenced by phonon-phonon interaction, the study finds. It provides insights into 2D-silicas lattice type in general and also suggests a quick nondestructive method to detect 2D silica.
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SALVE Cs/Cc-Correction Realized
August 09, 2016 - By pushing the usable aperture to the highest value ever reached in phase-contrast TEM imaging, the SALVE project completes the list of atomic-resolution TEMs. The SALVE III TEM operates in the range between 20 to 80 kV obtaining a resolution limit as small as 15 wavelenghts which is more than six times smaller than that of uncorrected TEMs.
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Carbon Nanotubes as Electrically Active Nanoreactors for Multi-Step Inorganic Synthesis
June 03, 2016 - Scientists from UK, Germany and Japan report that they both have performed the first inorganic synthesis with well-defined clusters as reaction products as well as for the first time carried out a 2-step synthesis in a CNT. With a further improvement of the technology necessary to extract the reaction products from CNT, these methods can provide significant contributions to the synthesis of compounds for e. g. catalysis and electronic devices.
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A Milestone of Microscopy History: The SALVE III Microscope is Completed and Reaches a New World Record
April 25, 2016 - Ulm University, FEI Company and CEOS GmbH announced today that they have finalized the SALVE III microscope. "We are truly excited by the successful completion which surpassed all our expectations the more since the SALVE microscope is the first of its kind. Our long-lasting efforts have paid off,” said Ute Kaiser, University of Ulm, head of the SALVE project.
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Benefits and Limitations of Low-kV Macromolecular Imaging for Cryo-Microscopy
February 23, 2016 - Researchers have long been trying to develop technologies that improve the resolution for biological samples embedded in ice ("Cryo-Microscopy"). Could low-voltage high-resolution electron microscopy, which enabled imaging of 2-dimensional materials with atomic resolution, lead also here to a quantum leap?
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AC-HRTEM as a New Tool to Study Chemical Reactions of Carbon and Metals
February 05, 2016 - In a new study conducted in the frame of the SALVE project, scientists have investigated the bonds between carbon and group VIII metals on an atomic scale. The study also provides new insights into radiation damage processes occurring in the presence of carbon and metal compounds under electron beam of irradiation.
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Beam Down in the SALVE III/TITAN Microscope
July 24, 2015 - This Friday, one milestone of the SALVE III project was reached: the SALVE III/TITAN has been handled over from FEI Electron Optics to CEOS company, after the beam traveled down the column with the SALVE++ Cc/Cs corrector installed.
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Microstructure and Properties of Se-Deficient 2D MoSe₂
March 24, 2015 - Se-deficit in single layers of MoSe2 grown by molecular beam epitaxy gives rise to a dense network of mirror-twin-boundaries (MTBs) decorating the 2D-grains, according to a new study by a team of researchers led by the group of electron microscopy for materials science (EMMS).
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FEI Company Joins the SALVE Project
March 16, 2015 - FEI company joins University of Ulm and CEOS company in the SALVE project. This step initiates the third phase of the SALVE project to develop a sub-Ångström low-voltage electron microscope with improved contrast andreduced damage on bio-molecules and two dimensional nanomaterials.
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Bottom-up Formation of Robust Gold Carbide
March 16, 2015 - In experiments involving the heating of graphene decorated with gold particles in the electron microscope, scientists discovered little crystals with quadratic arrangements which had a larger lattice constant than pure gold clusters. The Repeated heating of up to 1000 K allowed reproduction of the structure. As the scientists reported, it is a material that has never been synthesized in such a large quantity and stability until now: gold carbide. For their analysis they combined aberration-corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (AC-HRTEM) with density-functional theory calculations (DFT).
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SALVE Symposium 2015
February 17-18, 2015 - Scientists from 16 countries met in Ulm, Germany for the Second SALVE Symposium 2015.
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Physical Colloquium to Honor Harald Rose on the Occasion of his 80^th Birthday
February 16, 2015 - On the occasion of Harald Rose's 80th birthday a physical colloquium was held at Ulm University.
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Graphene at Supersaturation Enables Observation of Implanted Self-Interstitials
January 14, 2015 - Researchers from the group of Electron Microscopy of Materials Science at the University of Ulm with the principle investigator Ossi Lehtinen under the direction of Ute Kaiser succeeded for the first time to image implanted self-interstitials at the example of the material graphene.
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First Observation of Boron Nitride Chains
December 01, 2014 - A research team from Japan, Finland and Germany under the direction of Kazu Suenaga, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov and Ute A. Kaiser has experimentally for the first time produced and observed boron nitride atomic chains using a transmission electron microscope.
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Ultramicroscopy Highlights Low-Voltage Electron Microscopy by a Special Issue
October 12, 2014 - Ultramicroscopy devotes a special issue to low-voltage electron microscopy. Guest editors are Ute Kaiser and Michael Stöger-Pollach. We present here furthermore a detailed evaluation of our aberration-corrected TEM data basis on (1) which topics are generally represented in the high-impact factor journal and (2) on the potential of imaging of biological objects.
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Non-Invasive Electron Microscopy Reveals Structure of Proton-Irradiated Graphene
June 21, 2014 - A novel method for non-invasive imaging of vacancy defects in graphene by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy is demonstrated and used to show that ion irradiation of graphene produces reconstructed monovacancies.
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A new Two-Dimensional Graphitic Semiconductor: Carbon Nitride
May 18, 2014 - A European team consisting of nine groups from UK, Germany and Finland demonstrate two-dimensional carbon nitride for the first time.
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TEM Images Allow Further Insights into the Atomic Structure of Vitreous Carbon Networks
February 11, 2014 - In a new study, published in the journal "Scientific reports" from the Nature publishing group, researchers explore further the atomic structure of glass.
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ZEISS to Leave the SALVE Project: Future of SALVE is Secured
February 06, 2014 - ZEISS will leave the SALVE project in the wake of the decision to focus the electron microscopy branch on Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) Technology.
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BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2013: Rose, Haider and Urban
January 30, 2014 - The award goes to physicists Harald Rose, Maximilian Haider and Knut Urban for greatly enhancing the resolving power of electron microscopy by developing aberration-corrected electron optics, a breakthrough enabling subatomic precision.
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Defects in Bilayer Silica and Graphene: Common Trends in Diverse Hexagonal 2D Systems
December 16, 2013 - Through a combination of aberration corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM) with density functional theory (DFT) and classical force field (CFF) calculations, an international team of scientists with the participation of the SALVE project has investigated how the symmetries of the crystal lattice determine defects and grain boundaries.
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Watching Silica's Dance: Imaging the Atomic Arrangements in Glass
November 25, 2013 - By the use of the electron beam of a low-voltage aberration-corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscope, a detailed picture of a two-dimensional glass on the atom-by-atom level could be obtained.
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Encapsulation of MoS₂ in Graphene: Controlling Radiation Damage
October/November, 2013 - The radiation damage in MoS₂ under the electron beam at electron energies of 60 and 80 keV can be largely avoided by encapsulation between 2 graphene layers. As two groups of researchers at the University of Manchester in collaboration with the SuperSTEM laboratory (both UK) and at the University of Ulm (Germany) independently and consistently reported, the radiation damage in the beam-sensitive 2-dimensional transistion metal dichalgonide (TMD) is reduced by several orders of magnitude.
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First SALVE Symposium on the Occasion of Ute Kaiser’s 60th Birthday
October 14-15, 2013 - More than 50 scientists met in Ulm, Germany for the Physical Colloquium and Reception on the occasion of Ute Kaiser’s 60th birthday and the international SALVE Discussion Meeting.
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Sulfur Vacancies in Monolayer MoS₂ under the Microscope
July 02, 2013 - By combining high-resolution transmission electron microscopy and first-principles calculations, researchers from the Universities of Helsinki and Aalto (Finland), and Ulm (Germany) has for the first time studied production, diffusion, and agglomeration of sulfur vacancies in monolayer MoS₂. The results suggest a new way for strain and electron-beam-assisted engineering of MoS₂-based nanostructures.
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Dislocations in Graphene: The Importance of 3D Buckling
June 28, 2013 - The birth and death of a dislocation - its full life cycle is captured by low-voltage aberration corrected high-resolution TEM. We discuss the role of dislocations and the central importance of the 3D buckling calculation for graphene research.
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Atomistic Description of Electron Beam Damage Mechanisms in Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes and N-doped Graphene
September 24, 2012 - A team of scientists from 6 European countries, including the the Universities of Aalto, Vienna, Helsinki, and Ulm, the Institute of Nanoscience of Aragon, the Laboratory for Microstructural Investigations Chatillon, and the Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research Stuttgart, has combined STEM, HRTEM, and computational methods to study the electron beam damage in carbon nanotubes and graphene with nitrogen dopants.
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Scientists Calculate Displacement Threshold for Two-Dimensional Atomic Crystals
July 17, 2012 - Scientists from the Universities Helsinki and Aalto in Finland, the University of Ulm in Germany and of Vienna in Austria studied the behavior of 21 representative two-dimensional atomic crystals under electron irradiation by employing first-principle simulations and compared their results in the case of MoS₂ with experimental data on the production of vacancies in HR-TEM images. The study provides insights into the effects of electron irradiation on TMDs and the modification of their physical properties about which very little is known today.
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Accurate Measurement of Knock-on Damage in Graphene
May 07, 2012 - Radiation damage resulting from the collision of a beam electron with an atomic nucleus (Knock-on damage) is a problem with which electron microscopists must deal every day when imaging sensitive materials. It is generally known that the imaging of graphene requires acceleration voltages ≤ 80 kV. In spite of its great importance, a comprehensive quantitative analysis is missing among the studies published so far. The new study now closes this gap and also unravels the underlying physical processes.
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New Trend in Electron Microscopy: Aberration-Corrected Low Voltage TEM
May 03, 2012 - A study examines the global research activities in the new field of hardware aberration-corrected low-voltage electron microscopy.
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Scientists to Explore Metal−Nanotube Interactions in the TEM
January 17, 2012 - A group of researchers from the Universities of Ulm (Germany) and Nottingham (UK) as well as the company Zeiss (Germany) has now for the first time studied the interaction of the transition metals W, Re and Os with the interior of CNTs by imaging at the single-atom level in direct space and real time using LV-AC-HRTEM combined with DFT simulations.
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The Transformation of Carbon Adsorbates on Graphene under Extreme Heat
October 24, 2011 - A new study unravels the transformation of carbon adsorbates on graphene into amorphous or crystalline carbon monolayers at extremely high temperatures.
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New Insight into the Irradiation-Induced Changes in the Atomic Structure of Carbon Nanosystems
June 23, 2011 - A new study examining the mechanisms of irradiation-driven bond rotations at moderate electron energies was carried out at the Universities of Helsinki and Aalto in Finland and at Ulm University in Germany.
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Wolf-Prize 2011 for Aberration-Correction: A Breakthrough in Electron Microscopy
May 29, 2011 - Three German physicists, Harald H. Rose (UUlm, SALVE member), Maximillian Haider (CEOS company, SALVE member) and Knut W. Urban (Ruska Centre Jülich) have received the Wolf-prize 2011 in physics.
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Charges Under the Microscope
March 16, 2011 - Experimental and theoretical studies reveal that TEM can resolve charge transfer due to chemical bonds.
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From Point Defects in Graphene to Two-Dimensional Amorphous Carbon
March 09, 2011 - A team of scientists from Finland and Germany has studied the transformation of graphene into two-dimensional amorphous carbon. The observations, along with first-principles calculations, provide new insights to the bonding behavior of carbon and the dynamics of defects in graphene.
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Green Light for SALVE Phase II
February, 2011 - SALVE Team received green light from sponsors DFG and the Baden Württemberg Ministry for Science, Research and Art (MWK).
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SALVE I-II Consultant Harald H. Rose at Ulm University
June 01, 2010 - Harald H. Rose, the inventor of the practical realizable aberration correction at Ulm University today.

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Fullerenes to Form Directly out of Graphene
May 09, 2010 - A detailed observation of the dynamic transformations of graphene published today show unambigously that close-cage fullerene structures are formed directly from flat sheets of graphene.

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Scientists to Observe Chemical Reactions in Real Time and Atomic Space
November 26, 2009 - The AC-HR-TEM technique may ultimately improve the understanding of chemical reactions.

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Stable Carbon Chains to Form via Simple Routes from Graphene Nano-Bridges
August 19, 2009 - A new study finds that an exotic carbon allotrope is created due to preferred electron beam-induced chemical etching of a graphene nano-bridge.

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Press Releases

Nano Letters Fron Cover "Location of sulfur vacancies in the middle layer of trilayer TMDs"

August 28, 2024 - The article by Qunicke et al. has been selected for this months front cover of Nano Letters.

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Advanced Materials Back Cover "Janus Monolayers"

September 23, 2022 - The article by Gan et al. has been selected for this months back cover of Advanced Materials.

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Advanced Energy Materials Front Cover "New insights in intercalation in Batteries"

September 16, 2021 - The article by Ma et al. has been selected for this months front cover of Advanced Energy Materials.

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Angewandte Chemie Front Cover "Atomic Vacancies in Graphene Lattices"

November 11, 2020 - The article by Cao et al. has been selected for this months front cover of Angewandte Chemie.

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Nature Research "From Chaos to Order"

September 01, 2020 - In a "Behind the Paper" post for Nature Research Chemistry Community, Dr. Kecheng Cao describes the filming of the nucleation of metal from single atoms.

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In recognition of aberration-corrected TEM

June 10, 2020 - In an editorial article in Nature Nanotechnology the journal congratulate this year’s Kavli laureates for their extraordinary achievements. To recognize the work of this year’s Kavli Prizes, in astrophysics, nanoscience and neuroscience, editors of Nature journals have prepared an online collection, gathering publications from the laureates and papers from other scientists that represent important milestones.

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The Kavli Foundation Kavli Prize in Nanoscience 2020

May 14, 2020 - The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience is awarded to four scientists for their research and inventions of aberration-corrected lenses in electron microscopes: Harald H. Rose from the Group of Electron Microscopy for Materials Science at Ulm University and the Technical University of Darmstadt, Maximilian Haider from CEOS GmbH, Knut Urban from the Forschungszentrum Jülich, and Ondrej L Krivanek from Nion Co.

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Altmetric.de "First-Ever Video of Atoms Bonding Together"

February 18, 2020 - A new article by Cao et al. has received an Altmetric score of 700 withn 1 month for the media impact of "Imaging an unsupported metal–metal bond in dirhenium molecules at the atomic scale". The work is ranked 9th place out of all publications of Science Advances of similar age and is in the top 1% of all 189,539 articles across all research outputs of similar age ever tracked by Altmetric.

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phys.org "Walking with Atoms"

January 17, 2020 - A press articles on phys.org reports on the first recording of atomic scale bond evolution, breaking and formation on film by a team from Germany and UK.

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Rose Prize "Radiation Damage at 40 kV"

July 22, 2019 - This year‘s winners of the German Rose prize is Janis Koester from the SALVE microscopy center. It recognizes outstanding master‘s theses in the areas of imaging or analytical techniques, applied physics, materials science or chemistry, which are related to electron microscopy.

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Clarivate Analytics "Highly Cited Researchers"

July 22, 2019 - Ute Kaiser from Ulm University, Germany, director of the SALVE microscopy center has been recognized as Highly Cited Researcher by the Web of Science Group.

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Altmetric.de "Private Life of Nanoclusters"

September 10, 2018 - Cao et al. 2018 has received a score of 103 in a very short time for the media impact of "Comparison of atomic scale dynamics for the middle and late transition metal nanocatalysts". The work is ranked 78th place out of all publications of Nature communications and is in the top 1% of all 11,729,579 articles across all research outputs ever tracked by Altmetric.

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phys.org "Peering into Atomic Clusters"

September 04, 2018 - A press articles on phys.org reports on the first peak experts from Germany and UK have taken into the private life of atomic clusters.

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Chemie.de "Synthesis of Graphene Understood"

March 23, 2018 - Researchers from Freie Universität Berlin, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU) and Universität Ulm have made a significant contribution to the wet chemical synthesis of graphene from graphite, defining the mechanism on which it is based.

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Suedwestpresse "Super-Microscope SALVE Moves to the University of Ulm"

September 29, 2017 - Since today Ulm University offers another superlative: the most advanced low-voltage electron microscope in the world.

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Nature Nanotechnology Research Highlights "Single Molecule Chemistry: Caught on Camera"

April 06, 2017 - An international team of researchers use a particular TEM setup that allows them to track chemical reactions at a single-molecule level in real time and capture intermediate steps of the transformation.

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Advanced Materials Interfaces Front Cover "High Performance Li/S Battery"

October 06, 2016 - The article by Vinayan et al. has been selected for this months front cover of Advanced Materials Interfaces.

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small Front Cover "Extending the Lifetime of Organic Molecules in Transmission Electron Microscopy"

February 02, 2015 - The article by Chamberlain et al. has been selected for this months inside front cover of small.

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ars technica "Beyond Graphene's Limits"

June 05, 2014 - The new 2D designer material TGCN, which has now for the first time been observed (see press article "New graphene-type material created") may take us beyond graphene’s limits in semiconductor electronics.

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phys.org "New Graphene-Type Material Created"

May 23 and June 05, 2014 - Two press articles on phys.org (1, 2) report on the first production and observation of the new material 'triazine-based graphitic carbon nitride', or TGCN, which was already predicted theoretically in 1996, by a team from UK, Germany, and Finland.

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Southwestmetal Prize "Two-Dimensional Glass"

April 15, 2014 - One of this year‘s winners of the German Southwestmetal prize is Simon Kurasch from the University of Ulm. With the annual award nine graduates of state universities were decorated.

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Chemie.de "Watching Silica’s Dance"

October 18, 2013 - Physicists at the University of Ulm and Cornell University (NY) have managed to make for the first time dynamic deformation processes in glass visible at the atomic level. These go on when glass is deformed, thus bent or melted.

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Spiegel Online "A Mysterious Material"

October 11, 2013 - Researchers of Ulm University, Germany and Cornell University, US have been able to make the motion of atoms in glass visible. The images could clarify what happens when glass bends or breaks.

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Altmetric rank "Graphene with Aroma"

October 07, 2013 - Matei et al. has received a score of 59 in a very short time for the media impact of "Graphene with aroma". The work is ranked 17th place out of 1,500 publications of Advanced Materials and breaks the five percent level, the top of all 1,558,053 articles across all journals ever tracked by Altmetric.

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Guinness Book of World Records "World's Thinnest Glass Ever"

September 12, 2013 - It’s a new record: The world’s thinnest sheet of glass is just two atoms thick as imaged and identified atom-by-atom via electron microscopy by scientists at University of Ulm, Germany and Cornell University, USA. It is now recorded for posterity in the Guinness Book of World Records, 2014.

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Advanced Materials Front Cover "Graphene with Aroma"

August 07, 2013 - The article by Matei et al. has been selected for this months front cover of Advanced Materials.

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NatureNanotechnology News and Views "The Rise and Fall of a Dislocation"

August 05, 2013 - Researchers from University of Ulm, the University of Helsinki and Aalto University have followed the full life cycle of dislocations in graphene, from creation to annihilation, with atomic resolution.

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Nature NEWS "Imaging Hits Noise Barrier"

July 10, 2013 - The German SALVE 2 electron microscope is being redesigned to limit noise. Physical limits mean that electron microscopy may be nearing highest possible resolution. For the comment article by Pennycook et al. see section "Other highlighted topics" (November 2014) on the SALVE homepage.

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2012 MRS Fall Meeting "Low Voltage Symposium"

November 25-30, 2012 - The ever first MRS "Low Voltage Electron Microscopy and Spectroscopy for Materials Characterization" - symposium was helt in Boston, USA in October 2012. It was organized by Ute A. Kaiser (Ulm University, Germany), director of the SALVE project, and Lawrence F. Drummy (AFRL/RXBN, USA).

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ScienceShot News "Two Dimensional Glass"

February 2, 2012 - Researchers from Ulm University, Germany and Cornell University, USA image for the first time world's thinnest sheet of freestanding glass in aberration-corrected low-voltage electron microscopes. Engineering breakthroughs in aberration-correction made these images possible. The aberration-corrected TEM and STEM used in this paper were manufactured by the companies FEI Electron Optics and CEOS, as well as NION. The measurements are in excellent agreement with an old theoretical model by Zachariasen from the year 1932.

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NatureChemistry Paper "Chemical Reactivity"

September 15, 2011 - Researcher from Ulm University, Germany and Nottingham University, UK have observed sidewall (inner surface) chemical reactions, e.g. sidewall deformation and rupture, open nanoprotrusion formation, and stable closed nanoprotrusions. The researchers studied the direct reaction of fullerene molecules in carbon nanotubes (CNT) by using an electron beam (e-beam) of an aberration-corrected high-resolution transmission electron microscope.

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NatureMaterials Paper "Nanoribbon Formation in CNTs"

August, 2011 - Researchers from Ulm University, Germany and Nottingham University, UK, as well as the research institute CIC nanoGUNE Consolider, Spain have found a new strategy for spontaneous self-assembly of Graphene NanoRibbons (GNRs) using a Single-Walled Carbon NanoTube (SWNT) as both the reaction vessel and the template for nanoribbon growth.

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Wolf Foundation Wolf Prize in Physics 2011 "Hardware Aberration Correction"

May 29, 2011 - Wolf Prize in Physics be jointly awarded to Maximilian Haider, Harald Rose and Knut Urban for their development of aberration-corrected electron microscopy, allowing the observation of individual atoms with picometer precision, thus revolutionizing materials science.

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Nature Materials Front Cover "Charges under the Microscope"

March 3, 2011 - Meyer et al. 2011 have been awarded the picture of the month, the front cover in Nature Materials.

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NatureChemistry Paper "Fullerene Formation"

June 2, 2010 - For the first time, researchers from Ulm University, Germany and Nottingham University, UK observe graphene sheets becoming buckyballs. The mechanism of fullerene formation is described in 4 easy steps: (i) loss of carbon atoms at the edge; (ii) the formation of pentagons, which (iii) triggers the curving of graphene into bowl-shaped structure and which (iv) subsequently zips up its open edges to form a closed fullerene structure.

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NatureNanotechnology News "Caught on Camera"

June 2, 2010 - Graphite is routinely transformed into fullerene C60 molecules with the help of lasers or electric arcs, although the exact mechanism by which these spherical carbon structures are formed is still unclear. Andrey Chuvilin, Andrei Khlobystov and colleagues at the universities of Ulm and Nottingham have now directly imaged the formation of fullerene molecule.

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News

New Structural Insights into Inert-Exfoliated 2D Metal Diborides

Defect Influence on Lithium Crystallization in Graphene Layers Observed via TEM

Crystallinity of Different Layers of Stacked 2D MoS2 Systems observed in the TEM

New Guidelines for the Design of 2D Polymer Architectures Investigated with TEM

Novel Inner and Outer Functionalization of SWCNTs Characterized by TEM

SHORT: New Insights into Damage Mechanisms in 2D c-MOFs at the Sub-Ångström Scale

SHORT: Atomically Precise 2D Polymers with Kagome Lattice and High Conductivity

Trapped atoms form 1D gas and dimers

Fifth SALVE Symposium 2023

Low Contact Resistance in MoTe2 Based Field-Effect Transistors

Liquid Exfoliation of Magnetic 2D RuCl3

Subnanometer wide Indium Selenide Nanoribbons

Atom-by-Atom Transformation of Few-Layer MnPS3

Deep Learning in Amorphous Two-Dimensional Materials Data Science

Tuning the Properties of Ultra-Thin Freestanding TMPTs by Controlling their Stoichiometry

Electron Beam Engineering of 2D Materials for Integration in Electronic and Optic Sensing Devices

High-Optical-Quality Large-Area Monolayer Janus Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Optimum Accelerating Voltage for 2D Polymers in the TEM

Unravelling the Raman Response of Graphene Nanoribbons

Fourth SALVE Symposium 2022

Ultrathin ReS2 Synthesized in a Test Tube

Synthesis of Tailored Armchair Graphene Nanoribbons

Pressure Alters the Band Structure of 2D Platinum Dichalcogenides

New Insights in the Intercalaction of Zn2+ in α-Mn2O3 Zn-Metal Batteries

Atom Migration in MoTe2

One-Dimensional p-n Junction in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Restoring Defective Graphene

Two-Dimensional Polyimide-Graphene Heterostructures

Isotopic Labelling of Confined Carbyne

New Insight in Persistent Photoconductivity in MoS2

Inside Carbon Nanotubes: SALVE TEM reveals Graphene Ribbons in the Subnanometer Range

Electron Beam Induced Formation and Evolution of Defects in Monolayer WSe2

New Insight in Atomic Permeation through a Defective Carbon Lattice

Formation of Crystals Filmed in Atomic Detail

Atomic Probe of Bond Dynamics and Reactivity of Individual HF and H2O atoms

Pioneers of Electron Microscopy Receive the Kavli Prize

Carbon Ring Structure to be Essentional for Proton and Lithium Permeation Through Graphene

Defect Formation in Two-Dimensional MoS2 in Very Low Voltage TEM Likely Caused by Electronic Excitations

SALVE Microscopists to Explore Bond Breaking and Forming of Individual Diatomic Molecules

Crystalline Quality of MoS2 from Atomic Resolution Microscopy

Bottom-up Synthesis of Nanoporous Graphene

Visualization of Unstained DNA Nanostructures at 20 kV

Towards Quantum Devices: Single-Layer TMD's under the electron beam.

Observation of Lithiated Graphene Membranes

Understanding Metal-Graphene Interactions

Chemical Graphene Synthesis Understood

Third SALVE Symposium 2017

Ceremony for the Inauguration of the SALVE Microscope

The SALVE Microscope Comes Home

Modification With Subnanometer Precision in the (S)TEM

Nanobubbles and Crystal Growth Monitored in Graphene Pockets

Caught on Camera: Chemical Reactions 'Filmed' at the Single-Molecule Level

New Endohedral Metallo-Fullerenes

Vibrational Properties of 2D Silica and Kagome Lattice Materials

SALVE Cs/Cc-Correction Realized

Carbon Nanotubes as Electrically Active Nanoreactors for Multi-Step Inorganic Synthesis

A Milestone of Microscopy History: The SALVE III Microscope is Completed and Reaches a New World Record

Benefits and Limitations of Low-kV Macromolecular Imaging for Cryo-Microscopy

AC-HRTEM as a New Tool to Study Chemical Reactions of Carbon and Metals

Beam Down in the SALVE III/TITAN Microscope

Microstructure and Properties of Se-Deficient 2D MoSe2

FEI Company Joins the SALVE Project

Bottom-up Formation of Robust Gold Carbide

SALVE Symposium 2015

Physical Colloquium to Honor Harald Rose on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday

Graphene at Supersaturation Enables Observation of Implanted Self-Interstitials

First Observation of Boron Nitride Chains

Ultramicroscopy Highlights Low-Voltage Electron Microscopy by a Special Issue

Non-Invasive Electron Microscopy Reveals Structure of Proton-Irradiated Graphene

A new Two-Dimensional Graphitic Semiconductor: Carbon Nitride

TEM Images Allow Further Insights into the Atomic Structure of Vitreous Carbon Networks

ZEISS to Leave the SALVE Project: Future of SALVE is Secured

BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award 2013: Rose, Haider and Urban

Defects in Bilayer Silica and Graphene: Common Trends in Diverse Hexagonal 2D Systems

Watching Silica's Dance: Imaging the Atomic Arrangements in Glass

Encapsulation of MoS2 in Graphene: Controlling Radiation Damage

First SALVE Symposium on the Occasion of Ute Kaiser’s 60th Birthday

Sulfur Vacancies in Monolayer MoS2 under the Microscope

Dislocations in Graphene: The Importance of 3D Buckling

Crystallinity of Different Layers of Stacked 2D MoS₂ Systems observed in the TEM

Low Contact Resistance in MoTe₂ Based Field-Effect Transistors

Liquid Exfoliation of Magnetic 2D RuCl₃

Atom-by-Atom Transformation of Few-Layer MnPS₃

Ultrathin ReS₂ Synthesized in a Test Tube

New Insights in the Intercalaction of Zn²⁺ in α-Mn₂O₃ Zn-Metal Batteries

Atom Migration in MoTe₂

New Insight in Persistent Photoconductivity in MoS₂

Electron Beam Induced Formation and Evolution of Defects in Monolayer WSe₂

Atomic Probe of Bond Dynamics and Reactivity of Individual HF and H₂O atoms

Defect Formation in Two-Dimensional MoS₂ in Very Low Voltage TEM Likely Caused by Electronic Excitations

Crystalline Quality of MoS₂ from Atomic Resolution Microscopy

Microstructure and Properties of Se-Deficient 2D MoSe₂

Physical Colloquium to Honor Harald Rose on the Occasion of his 80^th Birthday

Encapsulation of MoS₂ in Graphene: Controlling Radiation Damage

Sulfur Vacancies in Monolayer MoS₂ under the Microscope