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Following the successful past two Sino-European Early Career Researchers Virtual Workshop on Emerging Techniques and Applications in Electron Microscopy (SEEM) that attracted 300+ registrations from 20+ countries and 100+ organisations in 2020 and 2021, respectively, we are pleased to announce that ...

Our nanowire experts Dr. Lilian Vogl, Dr. Peter Schweizer (now both at EMPA, Thun Switzerland), and Peter Denninger from the Institute of Micro- and Nanostructure Research headed by Prof. Spiecker recently published their work about gold nanowires provided by Gunther Richter from the Max Planck Inst...

A special scientific event, the “ZEISS On Your Campus Truck Tour 2022”, will make a stop in Erlangen at IZNF on 03.-04. of November 2022. Zeiss will set up a showroom next to IZNF building and Zeiss experts offer individual live demonstrations on-site or remote sessions for various microscopic ...

On the 2022 Gordon Research Conference on Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy (LPEM) in Ventura, California (USA), IMN doctoral candidate Birk Fritsch was honored with a Poster Award. Birk presented a tool for Automated Radiation Chemistry simuluations (AuRaCh) that simplifies the assessment of irradia...

During the Materials Science and Engineering Congress (MSE 2022) in Darmstadt from 27 to 29, September, Irene Kraus won the best poster award for her master project presented with the title "Investigation of the 3D reciprocal space using electron diffraction tomography". Congratulations, Iren...

We warmly welcome Prof. Philipp Pelz, who started his professorship for Computational Materials Microscopy at the IMN in August this year.   Before joining the IMN, he was a postdoctoral researcher working on computational electron microscopy with Prof. Mary Scott in the Materials Science...

At the summer festival of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, several prices of the Department of Materials Science and Engineering were awarded to outstanding BSc and PhD theses conducted at the IMN:   1. BSc Award: BSc Julian Kauth (Nanotechnology BSc) Title of thesis...

We are proud that the Alumni Symposium & Reunion of AG Electron Microscopy & Institute of Micro- and Nanostructure Research took place on 24th June 2022 and that so many alumni participated and made it a memorable event. Erdmann Spiecker and Mingjian Wu presented 14 years of Materials Micros...

Taming radiation effects during in situ studies in liquid phases is a major challenge for investigations with ionizing radiation, such as electrons or X-rays. In a recent work published in Advanced Science, researchers of FAU (IMN, CENEM, LEB, ICSP, LKO), Helmholtz-Institute Erlangen-Nürnberg for Re...

Crystals are not necessarily hard and resistant but also occur in soft matter when weakly bound molecules arrange in a regular order. Such organic crystals are widespread in pharmaceuticals products, but also occur as tiny nanocrystals in the active layer of organic solar cells. Here, the organic na...