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Researchers at CENEM have recently reported the direct observation of nucleation and propagation of basal plane dislocations in Nb2AlC, a member of MAX phases, using nanomechanical testing inside a transmission electron microscope. MAX Phases (with M an early transition metal, A an A group elemen...

High-resolution X-ray tomography reveals how butterflies form their iridescent wing scales. It has only been one year since the material scientists around Prof. Erdmann Spiecker from the Center for Nanoanalysis and Electron Microscopy (CENEM) at the FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg had been granted funding f...

In the framework of the “EAM Science meets fiction” event of the cluster of excellence “Engineering of Advanced Materials” (EAM), our GISAXS measurement of highly ordered DMPC phospholipid multilayer structure (cf. picture) will be presented by CENEM member Lisa Lautner. The sample was prepared f...

A research article "A Novel Approach for Preparation and In Situ Tensile Testing of Silica Glass Membranes in the Transmission Electron Microscope" by our colleagues Mirza Mačković, Thomas Przybilla, Christel Dieker, Patrick Herre, Stefan Romeis, Hana Stara, Nadine Schrenker, Wolfgang Peukert and Er...

Congratulations, Dr.-Ing. Florian Niekiel, Prof. Dr.-Ing. Erik Bitzek and Prof. Dr. rer. nat. habil. Erdmann Spiecker! The Cluster of Excellence (EAM, Engineering of Advanced Materials) selects the high-resolution TEM image of a fivefold twinned silver nanowire as picture of the month April 2017! R...

Research article "Correlative micro-diffraction and differential phase contrast study of mean inner potential and subtle beam-specimen interaction", by CENEM members Mingjian Wu and Erdmann Spiecker, has been accepted for publication in the journal Ultramicroscopy. Probing nanometer scale electro...

Register now for the International Symposium “In Situ Microscopy with Electrons, X-rays and Scanning Probes” of CENEM's GRK 1896!

Research article "Local temperature measurement in TEM by parallel beam electron diffraction" by CENEM researchers Florian Niekiel, Simon M. Kraschewski, Julian Müller, Benjamin Butz, and Erdmann Spiecker, has been accepted for publication in the journal Ultramicroscopy. In this work the applicab...

FAU researchers have succeeded in pinpointing the three-dimensional structure of microscopic photonic crystals in butterfly wings. These findings will help researchers to understand the formation of periodic structures which affect the colouration of many butterflies. In the future, these findings c...

Two Collaborative Research Projects of the Unruh Group of ICSP/CENEM funded by BMBF Two research applications have been granted for more than 1.4 million euros by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF). The funding enable the researchers of the nanomaterials characterization gro...