Scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) has emerged as a uniquely powerful
tool for structural and functional imaging of materials on the atomic level. Driven by …

This review highlights recent efforts on applying electron microscopy (EM) to soft (including
biological) nanomaterials. We will show how developments of both the hardware and …

The isolation of graphene in 2004 from graphite was a defining moment for the “birth” of a
field: two-dimensional (2D) materials. In recent years, there has been a rapidly increasing …

Crystal defects affect the thermal and heat-transport properties of materials by scattering
phonons and modifying phonon spectra,,,,,,–. To appreciate how imperfections in solids …

Progress in electron-beam spectroscopies has recently enabled the study of optical
excitations with combined space, energy and time resolution in the nanometre …

Rechargeable battery technologies have ignited major breakthroughs in contemporary
society, including but not limited to revolutions in transportation, electronics, and grid energy …

Spatially resolved vibrational mapping of nanostructures is indispensable to the
development and understanding of thermal nanodevices, modulation of thermal transport …

Interfacial thermal resistance is the primary impediment to heat flow in materials and devices
as characteristic lengths become comparable to the mean‐free paths of the energy carriers …

The present status and development of strong-field nano-optics, an emerging field of
nonlinear optics, is discussed. A nonperturbative regime of light-matter interactions is …

Single-atom impurities and other atomic-scale defects can notably alter the local vibrational
responses of solids and, ultimately, their macroscopic properties. Using high-resolution …