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January 15, 2020

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(Left to right): Ashwanth Subramanian, Ming Lu, Kim Kisslinger, Chang-Yong Nam, and Nikhil Tiwale in the Electron Microscopy Facility at Brookhaven Lab's Center for Functional Nanomaterials. The scientists used scanning electron microscopes to image high-resolution, high-aspect-ratio silicon nanostructures they etched using a "hybrid" organic-inorganic resist. Read the full story.

News Stories

• Nano-objects of Desire: Assembling Ordered Nanostructures in 3-D
• Top Posts of 2019 (DOE)
• Top-10 Science and Technology Achievements of 2019
• Season’s Greetings
• Camouflage Made of Quantum Material Could Hide You From Infrared Cameras
• Meet Dr. Fernando Camino: Staff Scientist, CFN, Brookhaven National Lab
• Meet Alessandra Colli: Engineering Improvements in 3-D-printed Metals
• Dmitri Zakharov Recognized with the 2019 Chuck Fiori Award
• Turning Up the Heat to Create New Nanostructured Metals
• The Secret Behind Crystals that Shrink when Heated
• Machine-Learning Analysis of X-ray Data Picks Out Key Catalytic Properties
• Chemistry Postdoc Receives Battery500 Young Investigator Award
• Researchers Think Small to Make Progress Toward Better Fuel Cells
• PubSci at the Parrish Merges Science, Art, and Music
• Toward Collaborative Scientific Computing
• Smarter Experiments for Faster Materials Discovery
• Enhancing Materials for Hi-Res Patterning to Advance Microelectronics

Research Highlights

• Catching Light with Zinc Oxide Nanomesh Sensors
• Designing Plasmon Energies by Patterning Silicon at the 1-nm Scale
• Artificial Intelligence for Smarter & Faster Research
• Tuning Electron Dynamics at 2D Interfaces
• Manganese Nanocatalysts Provide a Fuel Cell Boost

Awards and Honors

Service Awards

• 30-Year Service Award: Donna Storan, Assistant to the Director, Administration
• 15-Year Service Award: Dmytro Nykypanchuk, Staff Scientist, Soft and Bio Nanomaterials
• 10-Year Service Award: Alexei Tkachenko, Staff Scientist, Theory and Computation

Other Awards

• 2019 Microscopy Society of America Chuck Fiori Award: Dmitri Zakharov, Staff Scientist, Electron Microscopy
• 2019 Brookhaven Science & Technology Award: Kevin Yager, Group Leader, Electronic Nanomaterials
• DOE SBIR Phase I Award: Mithra Technologies in collaboration with Anibal Boscoboinik (Staff Scientist, Interface Science and Catalysis) and Rebecca Fushimi (Senior Research Scientist, Idaho National Lab)
• Technologist in Residence Program Award: Donald DiMarzio (Northrop Grumman), Oleg Gang (Group Leader, Soft and Bio Nanomaterials), Mircea Cotlet (Staff Scientist, Soft and Bio Nanomaterials), and Jurek Sadowski (Staff Scientist, Interface Science and Catalysis)

Comings and Goings

New Hires

• Suwon Bae, Research Associate, Electronic Nanomaterials
• Raymond Fullon, Research Associate, Interface Science and Catalysis
• Jason Kahn, Assistant Scientist, Soft and Bio Nanomaterials
• Burcu Karagoz, Research Associate, Interface Science and Catalysis
• Suji Park, Scientific Associate, Electronic Nanomaterials
• Sebastian Russel, Research Associate, Electronic Nanomaterials
• Yugang Zhang, Assistant Scientist, Soft and Bio Nanomaterials

Alumni

• Mingxing Li, Research Associate, Soft and Bio Nanomaterials Group

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