The Structure and Chemistry of Nanomaterials Group gathers up to 14 researchers with expertise at the international level in the field of atomic scale characterization of materials by Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques.
It counts with experts in each of the different SEM/TEM/STEM techniques currently available in modern electron microscopes.
Though the main interest focuses on nanomaterials for Environmental Catalysis and Sustanaible Energy Sources, other fields are covered in different projects and national/international collaborations, as it is the case of Biomedicine, Agrochemistry or Geochemistry.
1) Advanced Electron Microscopy for Nanomaterials characterization
2) Nanoscale analysis of nano materials for Heterogeneous Catalysis
3) Nanoscale analysis of nano materials for sensors
4) Nanoscale analysis of nano materials for Biomedicine and biotechnology
5) Development and optimization of novel methodologies for the 2D and 3D characterization of Nano and Bio materials by Advanced Transmission and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy
6) Electron Tomography of Nanostructured Materials
7) Nanomaterials Analysis by Precession Electron Diffraction techniques
8) Development and Characterization of Nanostructured Photocatalysts for energy and environmental catalysis applications.
• Scanning Electron Microscopy: SEM, SEM-EDX, 3D-SEM
• Electron Diffraction: SAED, Precession Electron Diffraction (PED)
• Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM): HREM, TEM-XEDS, TEM-EELS, EFTEM, BF-Electron Tomography, Trough-focus series exit wave reconstruction.
• Scanning-Transmission Electron Microscopy (STEM): HAADF, STEM-XEDS, STEM-EELS, DPC, iDPC.
• Electron Tomography both in imaging (incl. multichannel) and analytical (XEDS, EELS) modes.
• Powder X-Ray Diffraction
• Physi- and chemisorption
• Thermal Analysis Techniques: TGA, TPD, TPR, TPO,..
• Evaluation of Catalytic/Photocatalytic performance