Research Highlights By Title

Analysis of Biological Molecules by Single Photon Ionization Edirisinghe, P.;  Moore, J.;  Calaway, W.F.;  Veryovkin, I.;  Pellin, M.J.;  Skinner-Nemec, K.;  Giometti, C.;  Hanley, L.

Analysis of Samples Returned from Space Calaway, W.F.;  Veryovkin, I.;  Tripa, E.;  Savina, M.R.;  Burnett, D.;  Pellin, M.J.

Anomalous Dynamic Roughening of Cu Surfaces During Oxidation Zhou, G.;  Fong, D.;  Baldo, P.;  Pearson, J.;  Thompson, L.;  Birtcher, R.;  Eastman, J.

Antiferromagnetic Multilayers and Superlattices Jiang, J.S.;  te Velthuis, S.G.E.;  Felcher, G.P.;  Bader, S.D.;  Haskel, D.;  Srajer, G.;  Lee, D.R.;  Choi, Y.;  Lang, J.C.;  Meersschaut, J.;  L'abbé, C.;  Camley, R.E.

Basic Studies of Ion Sputtering Calaway, W.F.;  Veryovkin, I.;  King, B.;  Tripa, E.;  Savina, M.R.;  Pellin, M.J.

Benefits of Aberration Correction for Elemental Mapping Kabius, B.;  Zaluzec, N.J.;  Hetherington, C.;  Kirkland, A.;  Fan, W.;  Auciello, O.

Biocompatibility of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond (UNCD) Thin Films Shi, B.;  Auciello, O.;  Jin, Q.;  Chen, L.X.

Biological Routes to Functional Ferroelectrics Reiss, B.;  Pan, W.;  Kuo, M.;  Auciello, O.;  Ocola, L.;  Firestone, M.A.

Carbon Ad-Dimer Defects in Carbon Nanotubes Sternberg, M.;  Curtiss, L.A.;  Gruen, D.M.;  Kedziora, G.;  Horner, D.A.;  Redfern, P.C.;  Zapol, P.

Center for Nanoscale Materials at Argonne National Laboratory, The Streiffer, S.K.

Charge at Ferroelectric Interfaces Fong, D.;  Wang, R.V.;  Jiang, F.;  Fuoss, P.;  Streiffer, S.K.;  Eastman, J.;  Stephenson, G.B.;  Latifi, K.;  Thompson, C.;  Rappe, A.M.;  Eom, C.B.;  Elder, K.R.

Chicago Center for Cosmochemistry Savina, M.R.;  Pellin, M.J.;  Veryovkin, I.;  Calaway, W.F.;  Barzyk, J.G.;  Levine, J.

CO Monolayers on Pt(111) under Realistic Pressure Menzel, A.;  Chang, K.C.;  Komanicky, V.;  You, H.

Cobalt: More than Just Two Steps from Manganese Mitchell, J.F.;  Zheng, H.;  Osborn, R.;  Rosenkranz, S.;  Huq, A.;  Chapon, L.C.;  Radaelli, P.G.;  Stephens, P.;  Wu, J.;  Leighton, C.

Comparison Between the Experimentally Determined Orientation Dependence of the Near Edge Structure in Electron Energy Loss Spectra from Graphite with Present Theoretical Formulations Liu, A.C.Y.;  Zaluzec, N.J.

Competing Localization of Vortices Lopatin, A.;  Glatz, A.;  Vinokur, V.;  Kierfeld, J.

Composition Effects on the Early-Stage Oxidation Kinetics of (001)Cu-Au Alloys Zhou, G.;  Eastman, J.;  Birtcher, R.;  Baldo, P.;  Pearson, J.;  Thompson, L.;  Wang, L.;  Yang, J.

Conductance of a Quantum Wire at Low Electron Density Matveev, K.

Control of Flux Pinning in High Temperature Superconducting Tapes Miller, D.J.;  Arenal, R.;  Hiller, J.M.;  Gray, K.E.;  Maroni, V.M.;  Civale, L.;  Holesinger, T.G.;  Rupich, M.W.;  Huang, Y.;  Li, X.

Correlation of CN/C2 Ratios to Ultrananocrystalline Diamond (UNCD) Film Properties in Microwave Plasmas Gruen, D.M.;  Bruno, P.

Crossing Vortex Lattices in Layered Superconductors Koshelev, A.E.;  Vlasko-Vlasov, V.;  Welp, U.;  Kwok, W.K.;  Crabtree, G.W.;  Hiller, J.M.;  Kadowaki, K.

Cu2O Island Shape Transition During Cu-Au Oxidation Zhou, G.;  Wang, L.;  Birtcher, R.;  Baldo, P.;  Pearson, J.;  Yang, J.;  Eastman, J.

Developing SrRuO3 for Electronic Applications Dabrowski, B.D.;  Chmaissem, O.;  Jorgensen, J.D.;  Barnes, P.;  Short, S.;  Mais, J.;  Kolesnik, S.

DOE Facility Interactions of the Neutron and X-ray Scattering Group Jorgensen, J.D.;  Osborn, R.;  te Velthuis, S.G.E.;  Felcher, G.P.;  Rosenkranz, S.

Dynamic Origin of Stripe Domains Grimsditch, M.;  Novosad, V.;  Yan, M.;  Leaf, G.;  Kaper, H.;  Camley, R.E.;  Vavassori, P.

Dynamic Self-Assembly of Magnetic Microparticles: Surface Wave Assisted Magnetic Exchange Snezhko, A.;  Aranson, I.;  Kwok, W.K.

Dynamics of Josephson Vortices in Layered Superconductors Koshelev, A.E.;  Welp, U.;  Gray, K.E.;  Tachiki, T.;  Kurter, C.;  Vlasko-Vlasov, V.;  Kwok, W.K.;  Tachiki, M.;  Kadowaki, K.;  Latyshev, Y.;  Bulaevskii, L.;  Ozyuser, L.

Efficient Desorption of Large Molecules Moore, J.;  Veryovkin, I.;  Zinovev, A.;  Calaway, W.F.;  Savina, M.R.;  Pellin, M.J.

Electrochemical Synthesis of Architecture-Controlled Mesostructures Zach, M.;  Xiao, Z.L.;  Kwok, W.K.

Electron Diffraction on Boron Nitride Nanotubes Arenal, R.;  Kociak, M.;  Miller, D.J.

Emergent Behavior and Hydrodynamics of Active Bioparticles Sokolov, A.;  Aranson, I.;  Goldstein, R.;  Kessler, J.

Exploratory Synthesis of Nitrides Bailey, M.;  Mitchell, J.F.

Ferroelectric/Piezoelectric-Diamond Hybrid Hetero-structures for High Performance MEMS/NEMS Device Srinivasan, S.;  Auciello, O.;  Hiller, J.M.;  Bai, G.;  Carlisle, J.A.

First Order Metal-Insulator Transitions: Are They Universal in Manganites? Gray, K.E.;  Li, Q.;  Zheng, H.;  Mitchell, J.F.

From Fermi Arcs to the Nodal Meta Campuzano, J.C.;  Kanigel, A.;  Norman, M.;  Randeria, M.;  Chatterjee, U.;  Suoma, S.;  Kaminski, A.;  Fretwel H.M.;  Rosenkranz, S.;  Shi, M.;  Sato, T.;  Takahashi, T.;  Li, Z.Z.;  Raffy, H.;  Kadowaki, K.;  Hinks, D.G.;  Ozyuser, L.

HARECES Measurement of Magnetic Linear Dichroism Ito, Y.;  Zaluzec, N.J.;  Cook, R.E.;  Miller, D.J.

HARECES Measurements on Hexagonal Boron Nitride Arenal, R.;  Kociak, M.;  Zaluzec, N.J.

Hermetic, Bioinert Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Coatings to Enable a Retina Prosthesis Shi, B.;  Xiao, X.;  Kim, I.S.;  Carlisle, J.A.;  Auciello, O.

Hierarchically Self-Organizing Magnetic Nanomaterials Darling, S.B.;  Bader, S.D.;  Yufa, N.A.;  Sibener, S.J.

Imaging Spins Novosad, V.;  Buchanan, K.S.;  Ding, H.F.;  Grimsditch, M.;  Fradin, F.;  Pearson, J.;  Zaluzec, N.J.;  Karapetrov, G.;  Vlasko-Vlasov, V.;  Welp, U.;  Petford-Long, A.K.;  Bader, S.D.;  Scholl, A.;  Schmid, A.K.;  Volkov, V.;  Zhu Y.

In Situ X-ray Studies of MOCVD Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 Growth Wang, R.V.;  Fong, D.;  Jiang, F.;  Fuoss, P.;  Streiffer, S.K.;  Eastman, J.;  Stephenson, G.B.;  Latifi, K.;  Thompson, C.

In-Situ TEM Studies of Oxide Heterostructures Petford-Long, A.K.;  Chiaramonti, A.N.;  Tanase, M.;  Kabius, B.;  Streiffer, S.K.;  Auciello, O.;  Egelhoff, W.F.

In-situ X-ray Studies of Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition of InxGa1-xN Jiang, F.;  Munkholm, A.;  Streiffer, S.K.;  Wang, R.V.;  Thompson, C.;  Fuoss, P.;  Stephenson, G.B.

Institute for Theoretical Sciences: a Joint Argonne and University of Notre Dame Project Crabtree, G.W.;  Kwok, W.K.;  Janko, B.

Kinetics and Structures of Self-assembled Nanocrystal Superlattices Lin, X.M.;  Li, X.;  Wang, J.;  Bigionie, T.;  Constantinides, M.;  Jaeger, H.M.

Magnetic Depth Profiles of Complex Oxide Thin Films te Velthuis, S.G.E.;  Hoffmann, A.;  Santamaria, J.

Magnetic Response of Cuprate Superconductors, The Norman, M.

Magnetic Soliton Pair Dynamics Buchanan, K.S.;  Roy, P.E.;  Grimsditch, M.;  Fradin, F.;  Gusliyenko, K.Y.;  Bader, S.D.;  Novosad, V.

Magnetic Virus Chung, S.H.;  Hoffmann, A.;  Gusliyenko, K.Y.;  Bader, S.D.;  Liu, C.;  Kay, B.;  Makowski, L.;  Chen, L.X.

Materials Science with Ultra-Bright, Ultra-Fast X-Ray Sources Fuoss, P.;  Stephenson, G.B.

Materials Theory Institute: Quantum Mesoscopic Materials and Structures Vinokur, V.

Materials-Driven Studies of Phase Competition and Short-Range Order Mitchell, J.F.;  Chapon, L.C.;  Radaelli, P.G.;  Lynn, J.

Modeling Block Copolymer Interactions with Biomimetic Membranes Adiga, S.P.;  Zapol, P.;  Firestone, M.A.

Molecular Hybrid Conducting/Magnetic Materials Schlueter, J.A.;  Geiser, U.;  Hyzer, K.A.;  Manson, J.L.

Molecular Motors and Microtubules: Patterns and Self-Assembly Aranson, I.;  Tsimring, L.

Nanofabrication Based on Template Synthesis for Sensing and Magnetism Applications Wang, H.H.;  Lu, J.J.;  Han, C.Y.;  Lee, B.

Nanoscale Disorder in Crystalline Materials Rosenkranz, S.;  Osborn, R.;  Ancona, S.N.;  Chupas, P.;  Campbell, B.

Nanoscale Stability and Dissolution of Platinum Single Crystal Surfaces in Perchloric Acid Electrolyte Komanicky, V.;  Wang, X.;  Menzel, A.;  Chang, K.C.;  Markovic, N.;  Myers, D.;  You, H.

New Amorphous Ultra-Thin TixAl1-xOy Alloy Oxide Layer for Next Generation of High-K Gate Dielectrics Zhong, L.;  Fan, W.;  Kabius, B.;  Auciello, O.;  Yan, L.;  Irene, E.A.

New Directions in Catalysis: Nanostructured Membranes Pellin, M.J.;  Stair, P.C.;  Curtiss, L.A.;  Elam, J.;  Xiong, G.;  Schlueter, J.A.;  Wang, H.H.;  Iton, L.E.;  Zapol, P.;  Redfern, P.C.;  Kung, H.

Non-Local Spin Injection in Lateral Spin Valves Ji, Y.;  Hoffmann, A.;  Jiang, J.S.;  Pearson, J.;  Bader, S.D.

Novel Cu6Sn5 Thin Film Electrodes for High Performance Thin Film Batteries Kim, I.S.;  Auciello, O.;  Vaughey, J.T.;  Carlisle, J.A.;  Elam, J.;  Pellin, M.J.

Novel Microporous Molecular Frameworks: Potential for Gas Storage, Separation, and Catalysis Geiser, U.;  Schlueter, J.A.;  Funk, R.J.

Novel Synthesis of Nanostructures and Study of Ferroelectric Phenomena at the Nanoscale Auciello, O.;  Kim, D.J.;  Ocola, L.;  Ramesh, R.;  Dravid, V.

Novel Vortex States in a 3D Shape-Controlled Mesoscopic Superconductor Rydh, A.;  Xie, R.;  Zach, M.;  Welp, U.;  Crabtree, G.W.;  Kwok, W.K.;  Bending, S.;  Milosevic, M.V.;  Peeters, F.

Nucleation of Continuous, Conformal and Smooth Ultrananocrystalline Diamond (UNCD) Thin Films Naguib, N.;  Elam, J.;  Birrell, J.;  Wang, J.;  Liu, C.;  Shi, B.;  Chen, Y.;  Auciello, O.;  Carlisle, J.A.

Orbital Correlations, Frustration and Self-Organization Rosenkranz, S.;  Osborn, R.;  Ancona, S.N.;  Macaluso, R.;  Goremychkin, E.A.;  Mitchell, J.F.;  Zheng, H.

Pathways to Alloy Oxidation Fuoss, P.;  Eastman, J.;  Fong, D.;  Zhou, G.;  Rehn, L.;  Baldo, P.;  Thompson, L.

Plasmonic Routes to Nanophotonics Vlasko-Vlasov, V.;  Yin, L.;  Pearson, J.;  Hiller, J.M.;  Hua, J.;  Welp, U.;  Gray, K.E.;  Brown, D.E.;  Kimball, C.W.

Pt(111)-(100) Nanofaceted Model Electrocatalysts Komanicky, V.;  Menzel, A.;  Chang, K.C.;  You, H.

Putting the Squeeze on New Materials Synthesis Jorgensen, J.D.;  Hinks, D.G.;  Mitchell, J.F.;  Bailey, M.;  Barnes, P.;  Hill, J.M.;  Hor, Y.S.;  Dabrowski, B.D.

Quantum Chemical Study of Mechanisms of Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane on Vanadium Oxide Curtiss, L.A.;  Zapol, P.;  Redfern, P.C.;  Zygmunt, S.;  Sternberg, M.;  Adiga, S.P.

Quantum Computing with Electron Spins Liu, C.;  Messina, P.;  Schlueter, J.A.;  Fradin, F.;  Auciello, O.;  Carlisle, J.A.

Re-Entrant Orbital Order Li, Q.;  Claus, H.;  Gray, K.E.;  Zheng, H.;  Klausen, S.;  Rosenkranz, S.;  Osborn, R.;  Mazur, D.;  Mitchell, J.F.

Screening at Oxide Nanoparticle Surfaces in Electrolyte Solution by MD Simulation Desai, T.G.;  Wolf, D.;  Auciello, O.;  Phillpot, S.R.

Shining Light on Nanoscale Oxidation Eastman, J.;  Fuoss, P.;  Rehn, L.;  Baldo, P.;  Zhou, G.;  Fong, D.;  Thompson, L.

Short and Medium Range Orders in Nearly Frictionless Diamond-Like Carbon Liu, A.C.Y.;  Arenal, R.;  Miller, D.J.;  Chen, X.;  Johnson, J.;  Eryilmaz, O.;  Erdemir, A.

Size Effect in One-dimensional NbSe3 and NbSe2 Xiao, Z.L.;  Welp, U.;  Hor, Y.S.;  Ito, Y.;  Cook, R.E.;  Mitchell, J.F.;  Kwok, W.K.

Size Effect in One-Dimensional NbSe3 and NbSe2 Xiao, Z.L.;  Patel, U.;  Ito, Y.;  Welp, U.;  Hor, Y.S.;  Cook, R.E.;  Mitchell, J.F.;  Kwok, W.K.

Spin Echo Resolved Grazing Incidence Scattering (SERGIS) Felcher, G.P.;  te Velthuis, S.G.E.;  Falus, P.;  Pynn, R.;  Vorobiev, A.;  Major, J.

STM Observations of Vortex Lattice Transitions in Mesoscopic Superconductors Karapetrov, G.;  Iavarone, M.;  Fedor, J.;  Rosenmann, D.;  Kwok, W.K.;  Divan, R.;  Marshall, M.T.

Strategic Planning and Outcomes Gray, K.E.

Structural Materials for Fusion Reactors Kirk, M.A.;  Yao, Z.;  Jenkins, M.L.

Superconducting Detectors for Microwave Astronomy Novosad, V.;  Yefremenko, V.;  Divan, R.;  Koshelev, A.E.;  Karapetrov, G.;  Pearson, J.;  Carlstrom, J.;  Chang, C.L.;  Crawford, T.M.;  Meyer, S.S.;  Miknaitis, K.;  Vieira, J.D.

Superconducting Quantum Phase Transitions Lopatin, A.;  Beloborodov, I.;  Shah, N.;  Vinokur, V.

Superconductivity and Cobalt Oxidation State in NaxCoO2•4xH2O (x ≈ 1/3) Jorgensen, J.D.;  Barnes, P.;  Avdeev, M.;  Hinks, D.G.;  Claus, H.;  Short, S.

Surface Functionalization and Electrochemical Applications of Ultrananocrystalline Diamond Wang, J.;  Naguib, N.;  Liu, C.;  Auciello, O.;  Carlisle, J.A.

Synchrotron X-Ray PEEM Study of Vortex Dynamics in Ferromagnetic Nanodots Gusliyenko, K.Y.;  Han, X.F.;  Keavney, D.J.;  Divan, R.;  Bader, S.D.

Synthesis and Self-assembly of Metal and Semiconductor Nanoparticle-Polymer Composite Batra, D.;  Liu, A.C.Y.;  Benitez, G.M.;  Varela, L.M.;  Firestone, M.A.

Tensile Stress and Creep in Thermally Grown Oxides Veal, B.;  Paulikas, A.;  Hou, P.

Thermodynamics and Pinning of the Vortex Liquid State Kwok, W.K.;  Welp, U.;  Xie, R.;  Paulius, L.M.

Theta to Alpha Phase Transition in Thermally Grown Aluminas: Mechanisms and Control Veal, B.;  Paulikas, A.;  Birtcher, R.

Three-Dimensional Atom Probe Studies of Thin Film Oxide Heterostructures Petford-Long, A.K.;  Sudbrack, C.K.;  Schreiber, D.;  Seidman, D.N.;  Larson, D.J.

Transport Properties of Granular Metals Beloborodov, I.;  Efetov, K.;  Lopatin, A.;  Tran, T.;  Lin, X.M.;  Vinokur, V.;  Jaeger, H.M.

Tuning Magnetic and Electronic Properties of Perovskite Manganites Dabrowski, B.D.;  Chmaissem, O.;  Jorgensen, J.D.;  Short, S.;  Mais, J.;  Kolesnik, S.

Tuning Nanoscale Organic Materials for Optimal Photovoltaic Functions Chen, L.X.;  Wang, H.H.;  Wiederrecht, G.P.;  Yu, L.

Two- and Three-Dimensional Analytical Microscopy with Ions, Electrons and Photons Veryovkin, I.;  Tripa, E.;  Calaway, W.F.;  Pellin, M.J.

Two-band Superconductivity in MgB2 Iavarone, M.;  Ridh, A.;  Karapetrov, G.;  Koshelev, A.E.;  Welp, U.;  Kwok, W.K.;  Lee, S.I.;  Xi, X.X.;  Marcenat, C.;  Klein, T.;  Golubov, A.;  Vaglio, R.

UC-ANL Consortium for Nanoscience Research Bader, S.D.;  Jaeger, H.M.

Ultra-fast & Ultra-sensitive Nanostructured Hydrogen Sensors Xu, T.;  Zach, M.;  Xiao, Z.L.;  Rosenmann, D.;  Welp, U.;  Kwok, W.K.;  Crabtree, G.W.

Ultra-uniform Nanoporous Membranes: A New Material for Catalysis Wang, H.H.;  Xiong, G.;  Iton, L.E.;  Elam, J.;  Han, C.Y.;  Curtiss, L.A.;  Pellin, M.J.;  Stair, P.C.

Vapor Synthesis of NbSe2 and NbSe3 Nanostructures Hor, Y.S.;  Mitchell, J.F.;  Xiao, Z.L.;  Welp, U.;  Kwok, W.K.;  Cook, R.E.

X-ray Fluorescence Studies of Electrochemical Systems Chang, K.C.;  Menzel, A.;  Komanicky, V.;  You, H.;  Yildiz, B.;  Meyer, D.J.;  Carter, J.D.;  Inukai, J.;  Wieckowski, A.