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Imaging 3D chemistry at 1 nm resolution with fused multi-modal electron tomography

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  • Jonathan Schwartz

    (University of Michigan)

  • Zichao Wendy Di

    (Argonne National Laboratory)

  • Yi Jiang

    (Argonne National Laboratory)

  • Jason Manassa

    (University of Michigan)

  • Jacob Pietryga

    (University of Michigan
    Northwestern University)

  • Yiwen Qian

    (University of California at Berkeley)

  • Min Gee Cho

    (University of California at Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Jonathan L. Rowell

    (Cornell University)

  • Huihuo Zheng

    (Argonne National Laboratory)

  • Richard D. Robinson

    (Cornell University
    Cornell University)

  • Junsi Gu

    (Dow Chemical Co.)

  • Alexey Kirilin

    (Dow Chemical Co.)

  • Steve Rozeveld

    (Dow Chemical Co.)

  • Peter Ercius

    (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Jeffrey A. Fessler

    (University of Michigan)

  • Ting Xu

    (University of California at Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Mary Scott

    (University of California at Berkeley
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

  • Robert Hovden

    (University of Michigan
    University of Michigan)

Abstract

Measuring the three-dimensional (3D) distribution of chemistry in nanoscale matter is a longstanding challenge for metrological science. The inelastic scattering events required for 3D chemical imaging are too rare, requiring high beam exposure that destroys the specimen before an experiment is completed. Even larger doses are required to achieve high resolution. Thus, chemical mapping in 3D has been unachievable except at lower resolution with the most radiation-hard materials. Here, high-resolution 3D chemical imaging is achieved near or below one-nanometer resolution in an Au-Fe3O4 metamaterial within an organic ligand matrix, Co3O4-Mn3O4 core-shell nanocrystals, and ZnS-Cu0.64S0.36 nanomaterial using fused multi-modal electron tomography. Multi-modal data fusion enables high-resolution chemical tomography often with 99% less dose by linking information encoded within both elastic (HAADF) and inelastic (EDX/EELS) signals. We thus demonstrate that sub-nanometer 3D resolution of chemistry is measurable for a broad class of geometrically and compositionally complex materials.

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  • Jonathan Schwartz & Zichao Wendy Di & Yi Jiang & Jason Manassa & Jacob Pietryga & Yiwen Qian & Min Gee Cho & Jonathan L. Rowell & Huihuo Zheng & Richard D. Robinson & Junsi Gu & Alexey Kirilin & Steve, 2024. "Imaging 3D chemistry at 1 nm resolution with fused multi-modal electron tomography," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 1-10, December.
  • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcom:v:15:y:2024:i:1:d:10.1038_s41467-024-47558-0
    DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-47558-0
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