Multimodal chemical imaging of energy, environmental, and biological materials.
EMSL Project ID
49075
Abstract
As a part of this proposal and an LDRD funded by Chemical Imaging Initiative for AMBER Beamline development at LBNL, we aim to develop a combined STXM/XPS-TEM-APT multimodal chemical imaging capability and expertise for multimodal imaging of environmental materials like atmospheric aerosols, energy materials including advanced Li, Na ion battery cathode materials and natural biological materials like teeth of animals and humans. In the aerosol portion of the proposed research we aim to develop multimodal chemical imaging to characterize coated and bare organic and inorganic atmospheric aerosols in collaboration with PNNL atmospheric chemistry scientists. In the second thrust of this project we aim to characterize advanced Li and Na ion battery electrodes both before and after electrochemical cycling using multimodal imaging. In third thrust of this proposal we aim to develop APT to understand the microstructure-property relationship of naturally hard biomaterials like human teeth enamel and hyena teeth enamel. Overall mission will be to develop strong scientific expertise in EMSL on utilizing multimodal chemical imaging to solve scientific problems in the areas of atmospheric aerosol science theme (AAS) and energy materials and processes science theme (EMP) of EMSL in addition to developing possible applications of atom probe tomography for biological materials that may be relevant to bio system dynamics and design science theme (BSD). Project Details
Start Date
2015-10-01
End Date
2016-09-30
Status
Closed
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