Interfacial engineering of heterogeneous catalysts for electrocatalysis

Y Zhang, Y Lin, T Duan, L Song - Materials Today, 2021 - Elsevier
Electrocatalysis is recognized as a practical process for chemical energy conversion, which
has attracted considerable research efforts in the design and development of high …

Time-resolved X-ray microscopy for materials science

H Wen, MJ Cherukara, MV Holt - Annual Review of Materials …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
X-ray microscopy has been an indispensable tool to image nanoscale properties for
materials research. One of its recent advances is extending microscopic studies to the time …

Real-time coherent diffraction inversion using deep generative networks

MJ Cherukara, YSG Nashed, RJ Harder - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Phase retrieval, or the process of recovering phase information in reciprocal space to
reconstruct images from measured intensity alone, is the underlying basis to a variety of …

Defect Dynamics in 2-D MoS2 Probed by Using Machine Learning, Atomistic Simulations, and High-Resolution Microscopy

TK Patra, F Zhang, DS Schulman, H Chan… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Structural defects govern various physical, chemical, and optoelectronic properties of two-
dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). A fundamental understanding of the …

Bragg Coherent Diffraction Imaging for In Situ Studies in Electrocatalysis

RA Vicente, IT Neckel, SKRS Sankaranarayanan… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalysis is at the heart of a broad range of physicochemical applications that play an
important role in the present and future of a sustainable economy. Among the myriad of …

Three-dimensional X-ray diffraction imaging of dislocations in polycrystalline metals under tensile loading

MJ Cherukara, R Pokharel, TS O'Leary… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
The nucleation and propagation of dislocations is an ubiquitous process that accompanies
the plastic deformation of materials. Consequently, following the first visualization of …

Quantum Photon Sources in WSe2 Monolayers Induced by Weakly Localized Strain Fields

X Li, W Wang, X Ma - The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2022 - ACS Publications
Quantum emitters in semiconductor transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers hold
great promise for many quantum optics applications due to the intriguing properties afforded …

Anisotropic nano-scale resolution in 3D Bragg coherent diffraction imaging

MJ Cherukara, W Cha, RJ Harder - Applied Physics Letters, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
We demonstrate that the resolution of three-dimensional (3D) real-space images obtained
from Bragg coherent x-ray diffraction measurements is direction dependent. We propose …

BLAST: bridging length/timescales via atomistic simulation toolkit

H Chan, B Narayanan, M Cherukara, TD Loeffler… - MRS Advances, 2021 - Springer
The ever-increasing power of supercomputers coupled with highly scalable simulation
codes has made molecular dynamics an indispensable tool in applications ranging from …

Exploring a nanostructured X-ray optical device for improved spatial resolution in laboratory X-ray diffraction imaging

M Yamanashi - Applied Crystallography, 2024 - journals.iucr.org
Analytical methods with wide field range and high spatial resolution are required to observe
the distribution of the crystal structure in micro-regions undergoing macroscopic chemical …