Scientific Pioneers: Materials Scientists Use Advanced Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy (S/TEM) to Improve Our Modern World

Materials scientists have been the driving force behind breakthroughs that have made a significant global impact on the way we live today.Without them, steels would not have been refined to become thinner and more fuel-efficient whilst being able to keep us safe in our cars if they crash, aircraft engines and frames would not have been made reliable enough and light enough to keep us safe in the air and enable reasonably priced air travel, and the smart phones we use that have transformed the way we live could not have been developed.Today, materials scientists are working to transform the way we will live in the future by continuing to develop and advance materials for energy storage and conversion, quantum materials, semiconductors, and sustainable solutions across a variety of industries and products.These scientists, who are on the forefront of scientific discovery, need cutting-edge characterization tools and solutions that can help them gain deeper insights into the chemical nature and structures of individual materials and how they interface and interact with each other.This understanding is critical for researchers and companies to be able to "atomically engineer" structures with the right combinations of materials to provide the optimum properties for most high-end products we see today.