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NUCAPT is a research facility at Northwestern University directed by Prof. David N. Seidman and managed by Research Prof. Dieter Isheim. NUCAPT specializes in high-resolution chemical imaging by three-dimensional atom probe tomography (APT). APT produces a three-dimensional (3D) atom-by-atom chemical image with sub-nanometer spatial resolution of a sample volume typically 100 x 100 x 300 nm^3, by simultaneous high resolution imaging and atom-by-atom time of flight mass spectrometry. APT is particularly suited to study nano- or nanostructured materials.

The VG FIM100 atom-probe field-ion microscope (APFIM) is now on display in Terminal 1 at O'Hare Airport, in the concourse opposite gate B12. It was moved to O'Hare Airport to spend its retirement days among applications of the high-performance structural and areospace materials it helped develop.

Photo credit: Dr. Nhon Vo

NUCAPT had originally donated the VG FIM100 APFIM to Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry where it anchored the exhibition Materials Science at MSI (press kit). The Chicago Tribune ran an article about the exhibition "Materials Science" at the MSI on March 25, 2015.

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Announcements

Congratulations to both Divya Jain and Sumit Bhattacharya, on the successful defense of their thesis. Good luck, Doctors!
The Seidman Group welcomes Francesca Long, a first year graduate student in the department.
The Seidman Group welcomes visiting student Dong An from Southeast University.

Press

Congratulations on Dr. Dieter Isheim's winning the AIME Champion H. Mathewson Award, 2016. This is a very prestigious award from the TMS, which award is named after Champion H. Mathewson. Chammpion H. Mathewson was a pioneering physical metallurgist in the USA, who had most of his career at Yale University, 43 years. A round of applause for Dr. Dieter Isheim.
NUCAPT participates in the recently announced Soft and Hybrid Nanotechnology Experimental (SHyNE) resource, part of a new NSF program for National Nanotechnology Coordinated Infrastructure - See more at this press release
Professor David Seidman has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2014
Professor David Seidman has been given the AIME-TMS(Minerals*Metals*Materials) Honorary Member Award, 2014
An article feature APT work from Dieter Isheim and David Seidman was featured in Nature Press Release
David Seidman is elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS).
Professor David Seidman is chosen for the prestigious David Turnbull Lecturer Award, December 3, 2008.
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