Congratulations to our XRD customers Mohammad Asadi Tokmedash and Prof. Dr. Jouha Min on the first research paper from their group published in Advanced Materials Interfaces! The article title: “Stretchable, Nano-Crumpled MXene Multilayers Impart Long-Term Antibacterial Surface Properties”, Adv. Mater. Interfaces, 10, 2202350 (2023), https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202202350

Congrations to Dr. Syeda Roop Fatima Jaffri, a recently-graduated Ph.D. student from Dr. Cora MacAlister’s lab group in the University of Michigan’s Department of Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology (MCDB), for having her image of a tomato pollen tube selected as the winner of JEOL’s monthly image contest for October 2021! Winners of the image contest have their images included in JEOL’s annual calendar, and receive a small prize from JEOL. Congratulations to Dr. Jaffri!

A full list of contest winners and their images may be found on the JEOL contest website .

Congratulations to our XRD customer Ahmet Emre on his work “Biomorphic structural batteries for robotics” published at Science Robotics Vol. 5, Issue 45, eaba1912, on 19 Aug 2020

Congratulations to our XRD customers Quinn Burlingame and Xiaheng Huang on their paper “Intrinsically stable organic solar cells under high-intensity illumination” published at Nature volume 573, pages 394–397(2019). Published: 09 September 2019

Dr. Jerry Li, who operates the EMAL XRD and Auger nanoprobe, has been promoted to Associate Research Scientist, in recognition of his research achievements and service to the lab.

Congratulations, Jerry!

In the spring of 2019, General Motors Research and Development donated a used Cameca SX100 electron microprobe to EMAL, at the conclusion of it’s service to GM. The instrument was transported to EMAL’s North University Building lab, and after a period of installation and testing, EMAL is pleased to announce that SX100 #633 is up and running! This microprobe will primarily be used for X-ray mapping of solid materials, supplementing the existing SX100 microprobe already in EMAL. Point analysis capabilities may be added in the future.

The EMAL staff would like to express their gratitude to Dr. Daad Haddad, electron microscopy and analysis laboratory manager at GM Research and Development, and Mr. Eric Collins, ARS Administrator at GM, for their invaluable help in expediting the instrument’s donation, and in preparing the instrument for transport. GM’s generous gift will be put to good use serving EES, and the greater research community at U. Michigan.

Special thanks are also due to Earth and Environmental Sciences Chief Administrator Julie Haggerty, Facilities Manager Craig Delap, Dean Girbach from the LSA Procurement Office, Lindsay Young from the Office of University Development, Doug Schoener, Ken Seyfried and Matt Smith from University Moving and Trucking, and Curt Withrow, Edgar Chavez, and Keith Baxter from Cameca Instruments, who were indispensable in facilitating the donation and transporting the instrument to Ann Arbor.

Graduate student Ben Swanson, part of Dr. Peter Ma’s research group in the University of Michigan’s School of Dentistry, was featured on the cover of the program for the School of Dentistry’s Research Day. Congratulations, Ben!