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Nigel

Nigel Browning

Materials Sciences
Joint Appointment
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
PO Box 999
MSIN:
Richland, WA 99352

Biography

Nigel Browning received his undergraduate degree in Physics from the University of Reading, U. K., and his Ph.D. in Physics from the University of Cambridge, U. K. After completing his Ph.D. in 1992, he joined the Solid State Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) as a postdoctoral research associate before taking a faculty position in the Department of Physics at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) in 1995. In 2002, he moved to the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of California-Davis (UCD) and also held a joint appointment in the National Center for Electron Microscopy (NCEM) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). In 2005 he moved the joint appointment from LBNL to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) to become project leader for the Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscope (DTEM). In 2009, he also joined the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology at UC-Davis to focus on the development of the DTEM to study live biological structures. Dr. Browning held the rank of Full Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and the Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology and was the Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Electron Microscopy (ICEM) at UC-Davis. His research focused on the development of new methods in electron microscopy for high spatial, temporal and spectroscopic resolution analysis of engineering and biological structures.

Research Interests

  • The structure-property relationships at atomic scale defects and internal interfaces.
  • Atomic resolution and sensitivity imaging and analytical techniques in (scanning) transmission electron microscopy (S/TEM).
  • Dynamic and Ultrafast methods for TEM, diffraction and spectroscopy.

Education and Credentials

  • B.Sc. (Hons.), University of Reading, U. K. (1988). First Class Honors in Physics and Subsidiary Mathematics
  • Ph.D., University of Cambridge, U. K. (1992). "A Study of Oxide Superconductors by EELS in STEM." Advisor: Professor L. M. Brown, FRS.

Affiliations and Professional Service

  • Materials Research Society
  • American Physical Society
  • American Ceramic Society
  • Microscopy Society of America
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science

Awards and Recognitions

PNNL Publications

2021

  • Lee J., D. Nichols, N.D. Browning, and B.L. Mehdi. 2021. "Controlling Radiolysis Chemistry on the Nanoscale in Liquid Cell Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 23, no. 33:17766-17773. PNNL-SA-156160. doi:10.1039/D0CP06369J
  • Nicholls D., J. Wells, A. Stevens, Y. Zheng, J. Castagna, and N.D. Browning. 2021. "Sub-Sampled Imaging for STEM: Maximising Image Speed, Resolution and Precision Through Reconstruction Parameter Refinement." Ultramicroscopy 233, no. March 2022:113451. PNNL-SA-179236. doi:10.1016/j.ultramic.2021.113451

2020

  • Nichols D., J. Lee, H. Amari, A.J. Stevens, B.L. Mehdi, and N.D. Browning. 2020. "Minimising damage in high resolution scanning transmission electron microscope images of nanoscale structures and processes." Nanoscale 12, no. 41:21248-21254. PNNL-SA-161726. doi:10.1039/D0NR04589F
  • Unocic R.R., K.L. Jungjohann, B.L. Mehdi, N.D. Browning, and C. Wang. 2020. "In situ Electrochemical Scanning/Transmission Electron Microscopy of Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces." MRS Bulletin 45, no. 9:738-745. PNNL-SA-153779. doi:10.1557/mrs.2020.226

2019

  • Byers J.P., B. Li, R.V. Chopdekar, J.J. Ditto, D.C. Johnson, Y. Takamura, and N.D. Browning. 2019. "Correlation between epitaxial strain and magnetic properties in La0.7Sr0.3CoO3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 bilayers." Journal of Applied Physics 125, no. 8:Article No. 082518. PNNL-SA-142751. doi:10.1063/1.5054003
  • Byers J.P., B. Li, R.V. Chopdekar, J.J. Ditto, D.C. Johnson, Y. Takamura, and N.D. Browning. 2019. "Correlation between Epitaxial Strain and Magnetic Properties in La0.7Sr0.3CoO3/La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 bilayers." Journal of Applied Physics 125, no. 8:Article No. 082518. PNNL-SA-122542. doi:10.1063/1.5054003
  • Hufschmid R.D., E.M. Teeman, B.L. Mehdi, K.M. Krishnan, and N.D. Browning. 2019. "Observing the colloidal stability of iron oxide nanoparticles in situ." Nanoscale 11, no. 27:13098-13107. PNNL-SA-147663. doi:10.1039/c9nr03709h

2018

  • Sikaroudi A.E., D.A. Welch, T.J. Woehl, R. Faller, J.E. Evans, N.D. Browning, and C. Park. 2018. "Directional Statistics of Preferential Orientations of Two Shapes in Their Aggregate and Its Application to Nanoparticle Aggregation." Technometrics 60, no. 3:332-344. PNNL-SA-110076. doi:10.1080/00401706.2017.1366949
  • Singh N., M. Nguyen, D. Cantu Cantu, B.L. Mehdi, N.D. Browning, J.L. Fulton, and J. Zheng, et al. 2018. "Carbon-supported Pt during aqueous phenol hydrogenation with and without applied electrical potential: X-ray absorption and theoretical studies of structure and adsorbates." Journal of Catalysis 368. PNNL-SA-136451. doi:10.1016/j.jcat.2018.09.021
  • Stanfill B.A., S.M. Reehl, M. Johnson, N.D. Browning, B.L. Mehdi, P. Caragea, and L.M. Bramer. 2018. "Quantitative Mapping of Nanoscale Chemical Dynamics in Sub-sampled Operando (S)TEM Images Using Spatio-Temporal Analytics." ChemCatChem 10, no. 14:3115-3120. PNNL-SA-127193. doi:10.1002/cctc.201800333
  • Stevens A.J., L. Luzi, H. Yang, L. Kovarik, B.L. Mehdi, A.V. Liyu, and M. Gehm, et al. 2018. "A Sub-Sampled Approach to Extremely Low-Dose STEM." Applied Physics Letters 112, no. 4:Article No. 043104. PNNL-SA-126577. doi:10.1063/1.5016192

2017

  • Abellan P., T.H. Moser, I.T. Lucas, J.W. Grate, J.E. Evans, and N.D. Browning. 2017. "The Formation of Cerium (III) Hydroxide Nanoparticles by a Radiation Mediated Increase in Local pH." RSC Advances 7, no. 7:3831-3837. PNNL-SA-118826. doi:10.1039/c6ra27066b
  • Buru C., P. Li, B.L. Mehdi, A. Dohnalkova, A.E. Platero-Prats, N.D. Browning, and K.W. Chapman, et al. 2017. "Adsorption of a Catalytically Accessible Polyoxometalate in a Mesoporous Channel-type Metal-Organic Framework." Chemistry of Materials 29, no. 12:5174-5181. PNNL-SA-131981. doi:10.1021/acs.chemmater.7b00750
  • Fan Y., A.W. Robertson, Y. Zhou, Q. Chen, X. Zhang, N.D. Browning, and H. Zheng, et al. 2017. "Electrical Breakdown of Suspended Mono- and Few-Layer Tungsten Disulfide via Sulfur Depletion Identified by in Situ Atomic Imaging." ACS Nano 11, no. 9:9435-9444. PNNL-SA-127585. doi:10.1021/acsnano.7b05080
  • Hao W., A.J. Stevens, H. Yang, M. Gehm, and N.D. Browning. 2017. "Compressive classification for TEM-EELS." Microscopy and Microanalysis 23, no. S1:105-109. PNNL-SA-124106. doi:10.1017/S1431927617001222
  • Hao W., A.J. Stevens, H. Yang, M. Gehm, and N.D. Browning. 2017. "Compressive Classification for TEM-EELS." Microscopy and Microanalysis 23, no. S1:108-109. PNNL-SA-127626. doi:10.1017/S1431927617001222
  • Hufschmid R.D., C.J. Newcomb, J.W. Grate, J.J. De Yoreo, N.D. Browning, and N. Qafoku. 2017. "Direct visualization of aggregate morphology and dynamics in a model soil organic-mineral system." Environmental Science & Technology Letters 4, no. 5:186-191. PNNL-SA-124132. doi:10.1021/acs.estlett.7b00068
  • Ikuno T., J. Zheng, A. Vjunov, M. Sanchez-Sanchez, M.A. Ortuno, D.R. Pahls, and J.L. Fulton, et al. 2017. "Methane oxidation to methanol catalyzed by Cu-oxo clusters stabilized in NU-1000 metal-organic framework." Journal of the American Chemical Society 139, no. 30:10294-10301. PNNL-SA-122186. doi:10.1021/jacs.7b02936
  • Janka O., J.V. Zaikina, S.K. Bux, H. Tabatabaifar, H. Yang, N.D. Browning, and S.M. Kauzlarich. 2017. "Microstructure investigations of Yb- and Bi-doped Mg2Si prepared from metal hydrides for thermoelectric applications." Journal of Solid State Chemistry 245. PNNL-SA-123539. doi:10.1016/j.jssc.2016.10.011
  • Kruska K., A. Rohatgi, V.S. Vemuri, L. Kovarik, T.H. Moser, J.E. Evans, and N.D. Browning. 2017. "Grain growth in nanocrystalline Mg-Al thin films." Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A - Physical Metallurgy and Materials Science 48A, no. 12:6118-6125. PNNL-SA-113636. doi:10.1007/s11661-017-4350-0
  • Li P., N. Vermeulen, C. Malliakas, D.A. Gomez-Gualdron, A.J. Howarth, B.L. Mehdi, and A. Dohnalkova, et al. 2017. "Bottom-up construction of a superstructure in a porous uranium-organic crystal." Science 356, no. 6338:624-627. PNNL-SA-126719. doi:10.1126/science.aam7851
  • Luzi L., A.J. Stevens, H. Yang, and N.D. Browning. 2017. "Resolution Versus Error for Computational Electron Microscopy." Microscopy and Microanalysis 23, no. S1:88-89. PNNL-SA-124092. doi:10.1017/S143192761700112X
  • Moeglein W., R.L. Griswold, B.L. Mehdi, N.D. Browning, and J.R. Teuton. 2017. "Applying Shot Boundary Detection for Automated Crystal Growth Analysis During In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscope Experiments." Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging 3. PNNL-SA-120775. doi:10.1186/s40679-016-0034-x
  • Platero-Prats A.E., A. League, S. Bernales Candia, J. Ye, L.C. Gallington, A. Vjunov, and N. Schweitzer, et al. 2017. "Bridging Zirconia Nodes within a Metal-Organic Framework via Catalytic Ni-hydroxo Clusters to Form Hetero-Bimetallic Nanowires." Journal of the American Chemical Society 139, no. 30:10410-10418. PNNL-SA-127715. doi:10.1021/jacs.7b04997
  • Schneider S., A.J. Stevens, N.D. Browning, D. Pohl, K. Nielsch, and B. Rellinghaus. 2017. "Phase imaging: A compressive sensing approach." Microscopy and Microanalysis 23, no. S4:94-95. PNNL-SA-124072. doi:10.1017/S1431927617001155
  • Stevens A.J., and N.D. Browning. 2017. "Cryo-STEM Tomography with Inpainting." Microscopy and Microanalysis 23, no. S1:806-807. PNNL-SA-124073. doi:10.1017/S143192761700469X
  • Stevens A.J., and N.D. Browning. 2017. "Less is More: Bigger Data from Compressive Measurements." Microscopy and Microanalysis 23, no. S1:166-167. PNNL-SA-124102. doi:10.1017/S1431927617001519
  • Xie W., Q. Feng, R. Srinivasan, A.J. Stevens, and N.D. Browning. 2017. "Acquisition of STEM Images by Adaptive Compressive Sensing." Microscopy and Microanalysis 23, no. S1:96-97. PNNL-SA-123983. doi:10.1017/S1431927617001167
  • Zhang X., X. Zhang, T.R. Graham, C.I. Pearce, B.L. Mehdi, A.T. N'Diaye, and S.N. Kerisit, et al. 2017. "Fast Synthesis of Gibbsite Nanoplates and Process Optimization using Box-Behnken Experimental Design." Crystal Growth & Design 17, no. 12:6801-6808. PNNL-SA-129361. doi:10.1021/acs.cgd.7b01400
  • Zhu Y., and N.D. Browning. 2017. "The Role of Gas in Determining Image Quality and Resolution During In Situ Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Experiments." ChemCatChem 9, no. 18:3478-3485. PNNL-SA-126401. doi:10.1002/cctc.201700474
  • Zhu Y., P.V. Sushko, D. Melzer, E. Jensen, L. Kovarik, C. Ophus, and M. Sanchez-Sanchez, et al. 2017. "Formation of Oxygen Radical Sites on MoVNbTeOx by Cooperative Electron Redistribution." Journal of the American Chemical Society 139, no. 36:12342-12345. PNNL-SA-129307. doi:10.1021/jacs.7b05240

2016

  • Abellan Baeza P., L.R. Parent, N.M. Al Hasan, C. Park, I. Arslan, A.M. Karim, and J.E. Evans, et al. 2016. "Gaining Control over Radiolytic Synthesis of Uniform Sub-3-nanometer Palladium Nanoparticles: Use of Aromatic Liquids in the Electron Microscope." Langmuir 32, no. 6:1468-1477. PNNL-SA-108941. doi:10.1021/acs.langmuir.5b04200
  • Berto T.F., K.E. Sanwald, J.P. Byers, N.D. Browning, O.Y. Gutierrez, and J.A. Lercher. 2016. "Enabling Overall Water Splitting on Photocatalysts by CO-Covered Noble Metal Co-catalysts." The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7, no. 21:4358-4362. PNNL-SA-122792. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b02151
  • Cheng Y., Y. Shao, V. Raju, X. Ji, B.L. Mehdi, K. Han, and M.H. Engelhard, et al. 2016. "Molecular Storage of Mg Ions with Vanadium Oxide Nanoclusters." Advanced Functional Materials 26, no. 20:3446-3453. PNNL-SA-114521. doi:10.1002/adfm.201505501
  • Johnson G.E., T.H. Moser, M.H. Engelhard, N.D. Browning, and J. Laskin. 2016. "Fabrication of electrocatalytic Ta nanoparticles by reactive sputtering and ion soft landing." Journal of Chemical Physics 145, no. 17:Article No. 174701. PNNL-SA-122098. doi:10.1063/1.4966199
  • Kovarik L., A.J. Stevens, A.V. Liyu, and N.D. Browning. 2016. "Implementing an Accurate and Rapid Sparse Sampling Approach for Low-Dose Atomic Resolution STEM Imaging." Applied Physics Letters 109, no. 16:Article No. 164102. PNNL-SA-120342. doi:10.1063/1.4965720
  • Li B., R.V. Chopdekar, A.T. N'Diaye, A. Mehta, J.P. Byers, N.D. Browning, and E. Arenholz, et al. 2016. "Tuning Interfacial Exchange Interactions via Electronic Reconstruction in Transition-Metal Oxide Heterostructures." Applied Physics Letters 109, no. 15:2401. PNNL-SA-119122. doi:10.1063/1.4964407
  • Mehdi B.L., A.J. Stevens, J. Qian, C. Park, W. Xu, W.A. Henderson, and J. Zhang, et al. 2016. "The Impact of Li Grain Size on Coulombic Efficiency in Li Batteries." Scientific Reports 6. PNNL-SA-120401. doi:10.1038/srep34267
  • Melzer D., P. Xu, D. Hartmann, Y. Zhu, N.D. Browning, M. Sanchez-Sanchez, and J.A. Lercher. 2016. "Atomic-scale determination of active facets on the MoVTeNb oxide M1 phase and their intrinsic catalytic activity for ethane oxidative dehydrogenation." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 55, no. 31::8873-:8877. PNNL-SA-102641. doi:10.1002/anie.201600463
  • Mills E.M., M. Kleine-Boymann, J. Janek, H. Yang, N.D. Browning, Y. Takamura, and S. Kim. 2016. "YSZ thin films with minimized grain boundary resistivity." Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 18, no. 15:10486-10491. PNNL-SA-114644. doi:10.1039/C5CP08032K
  • Muntifering B.R., L. Kovarik, N.D. Browning, R.C. Pond, W.B. Knowlton, and P. Mullner. 2016. "Stress assisted removal of conjugation boundaries in non-modulated Ni-Mn-Ga by coordinated secondary twinning." Journal of Materials Science 51, no. 1:457-466. PNNL-SA-109808. doi:10.1007/s10853-015-9236-1
  • Perea D.E., J. Liu, J. Bartrand, Q.G. Dicken, S. Thevuthasan, N.D. Browning, and J.E. Evans. 2016. "Atom Probe Tomographic Mapping Directly Reveals the Atomic Distribution of Phosphorus in Resin Embedded Ferritin." Scientific Reports 6. PNNL-SA-112512. doi:10.1038/srep22321
  • Prabhakaran V., B.L. Mehdi, J.J. Ditto, M.H. Engelhard, B. Wang, K.D. Gunaratne, and D.C. Johnson, et al. 2016. "Rational Design of Efficient Electrode-Electrolyte Interfaces for Solid-State Energy Storage Using Ion Soft-Landing." Nature Communications 7. PNNL-SA-113159. doi:10.1038/ncomms11399
  • Sadeghi O., C. Falaise, P.I. Molina, R.D. Hufschmid, C.F. Campana, B.C. Noll, and N.D. Browning, et al. 2016. "Chemical stabilization and electrochemical destabilization of the iron Keggin ion in water." Inorganic Chemistry 55, no. 21:11078-11088. PNNL-SA-119358. doi:10.1021/acs.inorgchem.6b01694
  • Welch D.A., T.J. Woehl, C. Park, R. Faller, J.E. Evans, and N.D. Browning. 2016. "Understanding the Role of Solvation Forces on the Preferential Attachment of Nanoparticles in Liquid." ACS Nano 10, no. 1:181-187. PNNL-SA-108882. doi:10.1021/acsnano.5b06632
  • Yang D., P. Xu, E. Guan, N.D. Browning, and B.C. Gates. 2016. "Rhodium Pair-Sites on Magnesium Oxide: Synthesis, Characterization, and Catalysis of Ethylene Hydrogenation." Journal of Catalysis 338. PNNL-SA-112563. doi:10.1016/j.jcat.2016.02.023
  • Yang D., P. Xu, N.D. Browning, and B.C. Gates. 2016. "Tracking Rh atoms in Zeolite HY: First Steps of Metal Cluster Formation and Influence of Metal Nuclearity on Catalysis of Ethylene Hydrogenation and Ethylene Dimerization." The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 7, no. 13:2537-2543. PNNL-SA-118513. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.6b01153
  • Zhu Y., C.J. Munro, M.J. Olszta, D.J. Edwards, A.B. Braunschweig, M.R. Knecht, and N.D. Browning. 2016. "Dose-rate controlled energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopic mapping of the metallic components in a biohybrid nanosystem." Semiconductor Science and Technology 31, no. 8:Article No. 084002. PNNL-SA-116408. doi:10.1088/0268-1242/31/8/084002

2015

  • Cheng Y., Y. Shao, L.R. Parent, M.L. Sushko, G. Li, P.V. Sushko, and N.D. Browning, et al. 2015. "Interface Promoted Reversible Mg Insertion in Nanostructured Tin-Antimony Alloys." Advanced Materials 27, no. 42:6598-6605. PNNL-SA-108383. doi:10.1002/adma.201502378
  • El-Khoury P.Z., Y. Gong, P. Abellan, B.W. Arey, A.G. Joly, D. Hu, and J.E. Evans, et al. 2015. "Tip-Enhanced Raman Nanographs: Mapping Topography and Local Electric Fields." Nano Letters 15, no. 4:2385-2390. PNNL-SA-106991. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00609
  • Han C.W., H. Iddir, A. Uzun, L.A. Curtiss, N.D. Browning, B.C. Gates, and V. Ortalan. 2015. "Migration of Single Iridium Atoms and Tri-iridium Clusters on MgO Surfaces: Aberration-Corrected STEM Imaging and ab-initio Calculations." The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 6, no. 23:4675-4679. PNNL-SA-111152. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.5b01884
  • Hein J., O.Y. Gutierrez, E.C. Schachtl, P. Xu, N.D. Browning, A. Jentys, and J.A. Lercher. 2015. "Distribution of Metal Cations in Ni-Mo-W Sulfide Catalysts." ChemCatChem 7, no. 22:3692-3704. PNNL-SA-115349. doi:10.1002/cctc.201500788
  • Hufschmid R.D., H. Arami, R.M. Ferguson, M. Gonzales, E.M. Teeman, L.N. Brush, and N.D. Browning, et al. 2015. "Synthesis of phase-pure and monodisperse iron oxide nanoparticles by thermal decomposition." Nanoscale 7, no. 25:11142-11154. PNNL-SA-108942. doi:10.1039/c5nr01651g
  • Lu D., J. Zheng, Q. Li, X. Xie, S.A. Ferrara, Z. Nie, and B.L. Mehdi, et al. 2015. "High Energy Density Lithium-Sulfur Batteries: Challenges of Thick Sulfur Cathodes." Advanced Energy Materials 5, no. 16:Article No. 1402290. PNNL-SA-107462. doi:10.1002/aenm.201402290
  • Luo J., F. Gao, A.M. Karim, P. Xu, N.D. Browning, and C.H. Peden. 2015. "Advantages of MgAlOx over gamma-Al2O3 as a support material for potassium-based high temperature lean NOx traps." ACS Catalysis 5, no. 8:4680-4689. PNNL-SA-108956. doi:10.1021/acscatal.5b00542
  • Mehdi B.L., J. Qian, E. Nasybulin, C. Park, D.A. Welch, R. Faller, and H.S. Mehta, et al. 2015. "Observation and Quantification of Nanoscale Processes in Lithium Batteries by Operando Electrochemical (S)TEM." Nano Letters 15, no. 3:2168-2176. PNNL-SA-107504. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00175
  • Mehdi B.L., J. Qian, E. Nasybulin, D.A. Welch, C. Park, R. Faller, and H.S. Mehta, et al. 2015. "Quantification of Electrochemical Nanoscale Processes in Lithium Batteries By OperandoEC-(S)TEM." In ECS Conference on Electrochemical Energy Conversion & Storage with SOFC-XIV, July 26-31, 2015, Glasgow, Scotland, MA2015-03, Abstract No. 432. Pennington, New Jersey:The Electrochemical Society. PNNL-SA-111760.
  • Parent L.R., D.B. Robinson, P.J. Cappillino, R.J. Hartnett, P. Abellan Baeza, J.E. Evans, and N.D. Browning, et al. 2015. "In Situ Observation of Directed Nanoparticle Aggregation During the Synthesis of Ordered Nanoporous Metal in Soft Templates." Chemistry of Materials 26, no. 3:1426-1433. PNNL-SA-99014. doi:10.1021/cm4035209
  • Parent L.R., Y. Cheng, P.V. Sushko, Y. Shao, J. Liu, C.M. Wang, and N.D. Browning. 2015. "Realizing the Full Potential of Insertion Anodes for Mg-ion Batteries Through the Nano-Structuring of Sn." Nano Letters 15, no. 2:1177-1182. PNNL-SA-106031. doi:10.1021/nl5042534
  • Park C., T.J. Woehl, J.E. Evans, and N.D. Browning. 2015. "Minimum Cost Multi-way Data Association for Optimizing Multitarget Tracking of Interacting Objects." IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine intelligence 37, no. 3:611-624. PNNL-SA-104578. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.2014.2346202
  • Patterson J.P., P. Abellan Baeza, M.S. Denny, C. Park, N.D. Browning, S.M. Cohen, and J.E. Evans, et al. 2015. "Observing the Growth of Metal-Organic Frameworks by In-Situ Liquid Cell Transmission Electron Microscopy." Journal of the American Chemical Society 137, no. 23:7322-7328. PNNL-SA-106818. doi:10.1021/jacs.5b00817
  • Price P.M., N.D. Browning, and D.P. Butt. 2015. "Microdomain Formation, Oxidation, and Cation Ordering in LaCa2Fe3O8+y." Journal of the American Ceramic Society 98, no. 7:2248-2254. PNNL-SA-103675. doi:10.1111/jace.13474
  • Stevens A.J., L. Kovarik, P. Abellan, X. Yuan, L. Carin, and N.D. Browning. 2015. "TEM Video Compressive Sensing." Microscopy and Microanalysis 21, no. Suppl 3:1583-1584. PNNL-SA-108164.
  • Teuton J.R., R.L. Griswold, B.L. Mehdi, and N.D. Browning. 2015. "Compression Algorithm Analysis of In-Situ (S)TEM Video: Towards Automatic Event Detection and Characterization." Microscopy and Microanalysis 21, no. S3:2329-2330. PNNL-SA-115385.
  • Welch D.A., B.L. Mehdi, H.J. Hatchell, R. Faller, J.E. Evans, and N.D. Browning. 2015. "Using Molecular Dynamics to quantify the electrical double layer and examine the potential for its direct observation in the in-situ TEM." Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging 1, no. 1:Article No. 1. PNNL-SA-106479. doi:10.1186/s40679-014-0002-2
  • Xu P., J. Lu, C. Aydin, L.M. Debefve, N.D. Browning, C. Chen, and B.C. Gates. 2015. "Imaging individual lanthanum atoms in zeolite Y by scanning transmission electron microscopy: evidence of lanthanum pair sites." Microporous and Mesoporous Materials 213. PNNL-SA-104659. doi:10.1016/j.micromeso.2015.04.008
  • Yang H., H.S. Lee, P.G. Kotula, Y. Sato, Y. Ikuhara, and N.D. Browning. 2015. "Amphoteric Doping of Praseodymium Pr3+ in SrTiO3 Grain Boundaries." Applied Physics Letters 106, no. 12:Article No. 121904. PNNL-SA-108176. doi:10.1063/1.4916223
  • Zheng J., P. Xu, M. Gu, J. Xiao, N.D. Browning, P. Yan, and C.M. Wang, et al. 2015. "Structural and Chemical Evolution of Li- and Mn-rich Layered Cathode Material." Chemistry of Materials 27, no. 4:1381-1390. PNNL-SA-107139. doi:10.1021/cm5045978

2014

  • Abellan Baeza P., B.L. Mehdi, L.R. Parent, M. Gu, C. Park, W. Xu, and Y. Zhang, et al. 2014. "Probing the Degradation Mechanisms in Electrolyte Solutions for Li-ion Batteries by In-Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy." Nano Letters 14, no. 3:1293-1299. PNNL-SA-99732. doi:10.1021/nl404271k
  • Abellan Baeza P., T.J. Woehl, L.R. Parent, N.D. Browning, J.E. Evans, and I. Arslan. 2014. "Factors influencing quantitative liquid (scanning) transmission electron microscopy." Chemical Communications 50, no. 38:4873-80. PNNL-SA-99641. doi:10.1039/c3cc48479c
  • Adams B.D., R. Black, C. Radtke, Z. Williams, B.L. Mehdi, N.D. Browning, and L.F. Nazar. 2014. "The Importance of Nanometric Passivating Films on Cathodes forLi - Air Batteries." ACS Nano 8, no. 12:124831-12493. PNNL-SA-108401. doi:10.1021/nn505337p
  • El-Khoury P.Z., E. Khon, Y. Gong, A.G. Joly, P. Abellan, J.E. Evans, and N.D. Browning, et al. 2014. "Electric Field Enhancement in a Self-Assembled 2D Array of Silver Nanospheres." Journal of Chemical Physics 141, no. 21:Article No. 214308. PNNL-SA-105010. doi:10.1063/1.4902905
  • Gu M., X. Xiao, G. Liu, S. Thevuthasan, D.R. Baer, J. Zhang, and J. Liu, et al. 2014. "Mesoscale Origin of the Enhanced Cycling-Stability of the Si-Conductive Polymer Anode for Li-ion Batteries." Scientific Reports 4. PNNL-SA-99547. doi:10.1038/srep03684
  • Kistler J.D., N. Chotigkrai, P. Xu, B. Enderle, P. Praserthdam, C. Chen, and N.D. Browning, et al. 2014. "A Single-Site Platinum CO Oxidation Catalyst in Zeolite KLTL: Microscopic and Spectroscopic Determination of the Locations of the Platinum Atoms." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 53, no. 34:8904-8907. PNNL-SA-105596. doi:10.1002/anie.201403353
  • Martinez-Macias C., P. Xu, S. Hwang, J. Lu, C. Chen, N.D. Browning, and B.C. Gates. 2014. "Iridium Complexes and Clusters in Dealuminated Zeolite HY: Distribution between Crystalline and Impurity Amorphous Regions." ACS Catalysis 4, no. 8:2662-2666. PNNL-SA-101739. doi:10.1021/cs5006426
  • Mehdi B.L., M. Gu, L.R. Parent, W. Xu, E.N. Nasybulin, X. Chen, and R.R. Unocic, et al. 2014. "In Situ Electrochemical Transmission Electron Microscopy for Battery Research." Microscopy and Microanalysis 20, no. 2:484-492. PNNL-SA-101383. doi:10.1017/S1431927614000488
  • Moeck P., B.W. York, and N.D. Browning. 2014. "Symmetries of migration related segments of all [001] coincidence site lattice tilt boundaries in (001) projections for all holohedral cubic materials." Crystal Research & Technology 49, no. 9:708-720. PNNL-SA-102065. doi:10.1002/crat.201400071
  • Muntifering B.R., R.C. Pond, L. Kovarik, N.D. Browning, and P. Muller. 2014. "Intra-variant Substructure in Ni-Mn-Ga Martensite: Conjugation Boundaries." Acta Materialia 71. PNNL-SA-99492. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2014.03.018
  • Nasybulin E.N., W. Xu, B.L. Mehdi, E.C. Thomsen, M.H. Engelhard, R.C. Masse, and P. Bhattacharya, et al. 2014. "Formation of Interfacial Layer and Long-Term Cylability of Li-O-2 Batteries." ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 6, no. 16:14141-14151. PNNL-SA-99830. doi:10.1021/am503390q
  • Parent L.R., D.B. Robinson, P.J. Cappillino, R.J. Hartnett, P. Abellan, J.E. Evans, and N.D. Browning, et al. 2014. "In Situ Observation of Directed Nanoparticle Aggregation During the Synthesis of Ordered Nanoporous Metal in Soft Templates." Chemistry of Materials 26, no. 3:1426-1433. PNNL-SA-102164. doi:10.1021/cm4035209
  • Proetto M.T., A.M. Rush, M. Chien, P. Abellan Baeza, J.P. Patterson, M.P. Thompson, and N.H. Olson, et al. 2014. "Dynamics of soft Nanomaterials captured by transmission electron microscopy in liquid water." Journal of the American Chemical Society 136, no. 4:1162-1165. PNNL-SA-98017. doi:10.1021/ja408513m
  • Stevens A.J., H. Yang, L. Carin, I. Arslan, and N.D. Browning. 2014. "The Potential for Bayesian Compressive Sensing to Significantly Reduce Electron Dose in High Resolution STEM Images." Journal of Electron Microscopy 63, no. 1:41 - 51. PNNL-SA-95635. doi:10.1093/jmicro/dft042
  • Woehl T.J., C. Park, J.E. Evans, I. Arslan, W.D. Ristenpart, and N.D. Browning. 2014. "Direct Observation of Aggregative Nanoparticle Growth: Kinetic Modeling of the Size Distribution and Growth Rate." Nano Letters 14, no. 1:373-378. PNNL-SA-100262. doi:10.1021/nl4043328
  • Yang H., P.G. Kotula, Y. Sato, M. Chi, Y. Ikuhara, and N.D. Browning. 2014. "Segregation of Mn2+ Dopants as Interstitials in SrTiO3 Grain Boundaries." Materials Research Letters 2, no. 1:16-22. PNNL-SA-99016. doi:10.1080/21663831.2013.856815

2013

  • Aydin C., A. Kulkarni, M. Chi, N.D. Browning, and B.C. Gates. 2013. "Three-Dimensional Structural Analysis of MgO-Supported Osmium Clusters by Electron Microscopy with Single-Atom Sensitivity." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 52, no. 20:5262-5265. PNNL-SA-96863. doi:10.1002/anie.201300238
  • Browning N.D. 2013. "Electron Microscopy: Phase Transition Singled Out." Nature Chemistry 5, no. 5:363-364. PNNL-SA-94343. doi:10.1038/nchem.1632
  • Browning N.D., C. Aydin, J. Lu, A. Kulkarni, N.L. Okamoto, V. Ortalan, and B.W. Reed, et al. 2013. "Quantitative Z-Contrast Imaging of Supported Metal Complexes and Clusters - A Gateway to Understanding Catalysis on the Atomic Scale." ChemCatChem 5, no. 9:2673-2683. PNNL-SA-98857. doi:10.1002/cctc.201200872
  • Chambers S.A., M. Gu, P.V. Sushko, H. Yang, C.M. Wang, and N.D. Browning. 2013. "Ultra-low contact resistance at an epitaxial metal/oxide heterojunction through interstitial site doping." Advanced Materials 25, no. 29:4001-4005. PNNL-SA-92870. doi:10.1002/adma.201301030
  • Evans J.E., and N.D. Browning. 2013. "Enabling direct nanoscale observations of biological reactions with dynamic TEM." Microscopy 62, no. 1:147-156. PNNL-SA-91397. doi:10.1093/jmicro/dfs081
  • Grutter A.J., H. Yang, B.J. Kirby, M.R. Fitzsimmons, J.A. Aguiar, N.D. Browning, and C.A. Jenkins, et al. 2013. "Interfacial Ferromagnetism in LaNiO3/CaMnO3 Superlattices." Physical Review Letters 111, no. 8:087202. PNNL-SA-105511. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.111.087202
  • Gu M., A. Genc, I. Belharouak, D. Wang, K. Amine, S. Thevuthasan, and D.R. Baer, et al. 2013. "Nanoscale Phase Separation, Cation Ordering, and Surface Oxygen Chemistry in Pristine Li1.2Ni0.2Mn0.6O2 for Li-Ion Batteries." Chemistry of Materials 25, no. 11:2319-2236. PNNL-SA-93053. doi:10.1021/cm4009392
  • Gu M., A. Kushima, Y. Shao, J. Zhang, J. Liu, N.D. Browning, and J. Li, et al. 2013. "Probing the Failure Mechanism of SnO2 Nanowires for Sodium-ion Batteries." Nano Letters 13, no. 11:5203-5211. PNNL-SA-97876. doi:10.1021/nl402633n
  • Gu M., I. Belharouak, J. Zheng, H. Wu, J. Xiao, A. Genc, and K. Amine, et al. 2013. "Formation Of The Spinel Phase In The Layered Composite Cathode Used In Li-Ion Batteries." ACS Nano 7, no. 1:760-767. PNNL-SA-92371. doi:10.1021/nn305065u
  • Gu M., L.R. Parent, B.L. Mehdi, R.R. Unocic, M.T. Mcdowell, R.L. Sacci, and W. Xu, et al. 2013. "Demonstration of an Electrochemical Liquid Cell for Operando Transmission Electron Microscopy Observation of the Lithiation/Delithiation Behavior of Si Nanowire Battery Anodes." Nano Letters 13, no. 12:6106-6112. PNNL-SA-99250. doi:10.1021/nl403402q
  • Mehraeen S., J. McKeown, P.V. Deshmukh, J.E. Evans, P. Abellan Baeza, P. Xu, and B.W. Reed, et al. 2013. "A (S)TEM Gas Cell Holder with Localized Laser Heating for In Situ Experiments." Microscopy and Microanalysis 19, no. 2:470-478. PNNL-SA-88937. doi:10.1017/S1431927612014419
  • Sacci R.L., N.J. Dudney, K.L. More, L.R. Parent, I. Arslan, N.D. Browning, and R.R. Unocic. 2013. "Direct Visualization of Initial SEI Morphology and Growth Kinetics During Lithium Deposition by in situ Electrochemical Transmission Electron Microscopy." Chemical Communications 50, no. 17:2104-2107. PNNL-SA-100306. doi:10.1039/c3cc49029g
  • Shi H., O.Y. Gutierrez, H. Yang, N.D. Browning, G.L. Haller, and J.A. Lercher. 2013. "Catalytic Consequences of Particle Size and Chloride Promotion in the Ring-Opening of Cyclopentane on Pt/Al2O3." ACS Catalysis 3, no. 3:328-338. PNNL-SA-94950. doi:10.1021/cs300636j
  • Tong W., H. Yang, P. Moeck, M.I. Nandasiri, and N.D. Browning. 2013. "General Schema for [001] Tilt Grain Boundaries in Dense Packing Cubic Crystals." Acta Materialia 61, no. 9:3392-3398. PNNL-SA-91519. doi:10.1016/j.actamat.2013.02.029
  • Wang J., S. Ganguly, S. Sen, N.D. Browning, and S.M. Kauzlarich. 2013. "Synthesis and characterization of P-doped amorphous and nanocrystalline Si." Polyhedron 58, no. Special Issue:156-161. PNNL-SA-89833. doi:10.1016/j.poly.2012.10.011
  • Welch D.A., R. Faller, J.E. Evans, and N.D. Browning. 2013. "Simulating realistic imaging conditions for in situ liquid microscopy." Ultramicroscopy 135. PNNL-SA-93512. doi:10.1016/j.ultramic.2013.05.010
  • Woehl T.J., K.L. Jungjohann, J.E. Evans, I. Arslan, W.D. Ristenpart, and N.D. Browning. 2013. "Experimental procedures to mitigate electron beam induced artifacts during in situ fluid imaging of nanomaterials." Ultramicroscopy 127. PNNL-SA-85659. doi:10.1016/j.ultramic.2012.07.018
  • Yang H., H.S. Lee, M.C. Sarahan, Y. Sato, M. Chi, P. Moeck, and Y. Ikuhara, et al. 2013. "Quantifying stoichiometry-induced variations in structure and energy of a SrTiO3 symmetric S13 {510}/<100?>?grain boundary." Philosophical Magazine A 93, no. 10-12:1219-1229. PNNL-SA-97125. doi:10.1080/14786435.2012.746479

2012

  • Aguiar J., Q.M. Ramasse, M.D. Asta, and N.D. Browning. 2012. "Investigating the electronic structure of fluorite-structured oxide compounds: comparison of experimental EELS with first principles calculations." Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 24, no. 29:295503. PNNL-SA-91662. doi:10.1088/0953-8984/24/29/295503
  • Evans J.E., K.L. Jungjohann, and N.D. Browning. 2012. "Dynamic Transmission Electron Microscopy." In Characterization of Materials, 2nd ed, edited by EN Kaufmann. Hoboken, New Jersey:John Wiley & Sons. PNNL-SA-86072.
  • Evans J.E., K.L. Jungjohann, P.K. Wong, P. Chiu, G.H. Dutrow, I. Arslan, and N.D. Browning. 2012. "Visualizing Macromolecular Complexes with In Situ Liquid Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy." Micron 43, no. 11:1085-1090. PNNL-SA-85511. doi:10.1016/j.micron.2012.01.018
  • Gu M., I. Belharouak, A. Genc, Z. Wang, D. Wang, K. Amine, and F. Gao, et al. 2012. "Conflicting Roles Of Nickel In Controlling Cathode Performance In Lithium-ion Batteries." Nano Letters 12, no. 10:5186-5191. PNNL-SA-88619. doi:10.1021/nl302249v
  • Jungjohann K.L., J.E. Evans, J. Aguiar, I. Arslan, and N.D. Browning. 2012. "Atomic-Scale Imaging and Spectroscopy for In Situ Liquid Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy." Microscopy and Microanalysis 18, no. 3:621-627. PNNL-SA-85660. doi:10.1017/S1431927612000104
  • Lu J., C. Aydin, N.D. Browning, and B.C. Gates. 2012. "Imaging Isolated Gold Atom Catalytic Sites in Zeolite NaY." Angewandte Chemie International Edition 51, no. 24:5842-5846. PNNL-SA-86086. doi:10.1002/anie.201107391
  • Parent L.R., D.R. Robinson, T.J. Woehl, W.D. Ristenpart, J.E. Evans, N.D. Browning, and I. Arslan. 2012. "Direct in Situ Observation of Nanoparticle Synthesis in a Liquid Crystal Surfactant Template." ACS Nano 6, no. 4:3589-3596. PNNL-SA-83371. doi:10.1021/nn300671g
  • Townsend T.K., N.D. Browning, and F. Osterloh. 2012. "Nanoscale Strontium Titanate Photocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting." ACS Nano 6, no. 8:7420-7426. PNNL-SA-91661. doi:10.1021/nn302647u
  • Townsend T.K., N.D. Browning, and F. Osterloh. 2012. "Overall Photocatalytic Water Splitting with NiOx-SrTiO3 - A Revised Mechanism." Energy & Environmental Science 5, no. 11:9543-9550. PNNL-SA-88342. doi:10.1039/c2ee22665k
  • Woehl T.J., J.E. Evans, I. Arslan, W.D. Ristenpart, and N.D. Browning. 2012. "Direct in Situ Determination of the Mechanisms Controlling Nanoparticle Nucleation and Growth." ACS Nano 6, no. 10:8599-8610. PNNL-SA-87715. doi:10.1021/nn303371y

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