Advances in instrumentation for experimental characterization of materials such as
microscopy and spectroscopy have led to an explosion in information available on materials …

The simulation of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images or diffraction patterns is
often required to interpret their contrast and extract specimen features. This is especially true …

Metal− organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline porous materials consisting of metal ions
or clusters connected by bridging organic ligands. 1, 2 They have regularly arranged pores …

Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) allows to gain quantitative information
on the atomic-scale structure and composition of materials, satisfying one of todays major …

Characterization efforts of core/shell and core/multishell nanocrystals have struggled to
quantitatively evaluate the interface width between the core and shell materials despite its …

Sub-angstrom scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) allows quantitative
column-by-column analysis of crystalline specimens via annular dark-field images. The …

Quantitative ADF-STEM imaging paired with image simulations has proven to be a powerful
technique for determining the three dimensional location of substitutionally doped atoms in …

Furthering the integration of theoretical and computational electronic structure methods with
electron microscopy techniques is the overarch-ing theme of this thesis. In this work …

This thesis reports research developing different tools to help fully utilize the power of
modern scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and more effectively extract …

The development of high-flux, high-selectivity, and low-cost membranes has the potential to
improve the energy efficiency in the chemical industry by reducing the reliance on energy …