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Nugget Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) image of a Ni3Al precipitate in a Ni-rich matrix. As the alloy is aged, the precipitates will evolve from a spherical morphology to a cuboidal morphology. TEM and LEAP are used to study the temporal evolution of this alloy. (Courtesy: Liza Plotnikov)

Announcements A short video describes NUCAPT and the new data management and publication service, developed in collaboration with CHiMAD-MDF. The new NUCAPT data server manager is online now and can be accessed at NUCAPT Data Server Our LEAP tomograph has been upgraded in 2017 to a LEAP5000XS configuration (CAMECA), featuring a single-atom position-sensitive time-of-flight detector with approximately 80% detection efficiency, compared to 50% efficiency with our old LEAP4000 instrument before the upgrade. 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 Professor David Seidman is receiving the 2020 Distinguished Scientist Award of the Microscopy Society of America. This Award recognizes preeminent senior scientists from both the Biological and Physical disciplines who have a long-standing record of achievement during their career in the field of microscopy or microanalysis. Congratulations, David! Congratulations to Professor David Seidman for receiving the 2019 Peter Duncumb Award for Excellence in Microanalysis from the Microanalysis Society (MAS). The award ceremony was held at the M&M2019 conference in Portland, OR, on Aug. 5th, 2019. Professor David Seidman was awarded the 2019 Gold Medal from ASM International, “for quantitative applications of field-ion microscopy and atom-probe tomography for solving a very broad range of materials problems from different materials classes in conjunction with other characterization tools.” Seidman will officially receive the medal at the MS&T19 conference in Portland, OR. Congratulations! Congratulations to Professor David Seidman for his election to the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Election to the academy is among the highest professional distinctions accorded to an engineer. Seidman is one of 83 new members and 16 new foreign members announced by the NAE on February 7, 2018. Seidman was cited by NAE for “contributions to understanding of materials at the atomic scale, leading to advanced materials and processes.” He will be formally inducted during a ceremony at the NAE’s annual meeting on September 30, 2018 in Washington, D.C. 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. Also covered by Northwestern Older news Ford's collaboration with NUCAPT has received a lot of press Danny Perea's article in Nano Letters is summarized by several press sources

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Recent articles from the Seidman group

• Ma, Kaka; Wen, Haiming; Hu, Tao; Topping, Troy D.; Isheim, Dieter; Seidman, David N.; Lavernia, Enrique J.; Schoenung, Julie M. (2014). "Mechanical behavior and strengthening mechanisms in ultrafine grain precipitation-strengthened aluminum alloy". Acta Materialia 62: 141-155. 
• Plotnikov, Elizaveta Y.; Mao, Zugang; Noebe, Ronald D.; Seidman, David N. (2014). "Temporal evolution of the g(fcc)/g'(L12) interfacial width in binary Ni–Al alloys". Scripta Materialia 70 (1): 51-54. 
• Vo, Nhon Q.; Dunand, David C.; Seidman, David N. (2014). "Improving aging and creep resistance in a dilute Al–Sc alloy by microalloying with Si, Zr and Er". Acta Materialia 63 (15): 73-85. 
• 'Bocchini, Peter J.; Lass, Eric A.; Moon, K-W; Campbell, Carolyn E.; Kattner, Ursula R.; Dunand, David C.; Seidman, David N.' (2013). "Atom-probe tomographic study of g/g' interfaces and compositions in an aged Co–Al–W superalloy". Scripta Materialia 68 (8): 563-566. 
• Kim, Yoon-Jun; Tao, Runzhe; Klie, Robert F. (2013). "Direct Atomic-Scale Imaging of Hydrogen and Oxygen Interstitials in Pure Niobium Using Atom-Probe Tomography and Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy". ACS Nano 7 (1): 732-739. 
• Baik, Sung-Il (2013). "Correlative atom-probe tomography and transmission electron microscope study of a chemical transition in a spinel on an oxidized nickel-based superalloy". Scripta Materialia 68 (11): 909-912. 
• Isheim, Dieter; Stadermann, Frank J.; Lewis, Josiah B.; Floss, Christine; Daulton, Tyrone L.; Davis, Andrew M.; Heck, Philipp R.; Pellin, Michael J.; Savina, Michael R.; Seidman, David N.; Stephan, Thomas (2013). "Combining Atom-Probe Tomography and Focused-Ion Beam Microscopy to Study Individual Presolar Meteoritic Nanodiamond Particles". Microscopy and Microanalysis 19: 974-975. 
• Ford, Denise C.; Cooley, Lance D. (2013). "Suppression of hydride precipitates in niobium superconducting radio-frequency cavities". Superconducting Science and Technology 26 (10). 
• Moutanabbir, Oussama; Isheim, Dieter; Blumtritt, Horst; Senz, Stephan; Pippel, Eckhard; Seidman, David N. (2013). "Colossal injection of catalyst atoms into silicon nanowires". Nature 496 (7443): 78-82. 
• Wang, J.-S.; Mulholland, M.D.; Olson, G.B. (2013). "Prediction of the yield strength of a secondary-hardening steel" 61 (13): 4939-4952. 
• Zhou, Yang; Isheim, Dieter; Hsieh, Gillian; Noebe, Ronald D. (2013). "Effects of ruthenium on phase separation in a model Ni–Al–Cr–Ru superalloy". Philosophical Magazine 93 (10-12): 1326-1350.