Scanning electron microscopy articles within Nature Materials

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• News & Views | 24 June 2021

  Interface migration by phase transformations

  Direct experimental observations reveal that grain boundaries in aluminium oxide migrate by a chain of structural phase transformations within the boundary core.

  • Y. Mishin

• Article | 03 June 2019

  Diffraction imaging of nanocrystalline structures in organic semiconductor molecular thin films

  Scanning electron nanobeam diffraction is used to monitor the morphology of organic thin films with nanometre resolution, revealing information on the arrangement of crystalline domains useful for structure–property relationship understanding.

  • Ouliana Panova
  • , Colin Ophus
  •  & Andrew M. Minor

• News & Views | 22 May 2013

  Orbicular origins

  The application of imaging techniques prevalent in materials science to the biological process of soft tissue calcification lends new insight into age-related cardiovascular disease.

  • Jordan D. Miller