ZBP-Kolloquium

Prof. Dr. Nadja Tarakina (INM-Leibniz Institute for New Materials)
Title: Electron microscopy of soft functional materials: challenges and opportunities
Time: 14:15 (refreshments at 14:00)
Location: Campus SB, Building C6 4, room 0.09 (Hörsaal II), Click here to join via Teams
Host: Prof. Franziska Lautenschläger

Abstract: Soft functional materials (polymers, colloids, biomaterials, gels, liquid crystals, etc.) are crucial components of many everyday products and are an indispensable part of high-tech applications. Their mesoscale (nanoscale to microscale) structure, morphology and composition dictate their properties. While electron microscopy is one of the most powerful tools to characterise materials at atomic and nanoscales, its application to soft materials is challenging due to their inherent beam sensitivity, low contrast and intrinsic entropic nature. In my talk I will give an overview of research activities at my department in the application of advanced electron microscopy methodologies (low-dose HR-TEM, energy filtered electron radial distribution function analysis, EXELFS, LC-TEM, etc.) to the characterisation of soft functional materials and their interfaces (e.g. carbon nitride photocatalyst heterojunctions, colloidal particles in liquids, single-atom catalysts, etc.) and present future opportunities in this research direction. 

If you are interested in an individual meeting with the speaker, please contact the respective host or Philipp Hövel (philipp.hoevel@uni-saarland.de).