Congratulations to Ruopeng, Shiteng and Yan! The paper about imaging Short Range Order (SRO) in medium entropy alloy is published in Nature. Check the article here: nature.com/articles/s4158…

Ruopeng Zhang，a PhD student in our group, gave an invited talk about “Imaging Short-range Order in Metallic Alloys” at Fall 2020 North American Materials Colloquium Series (NAMCS). His video is available on YouTube now! Check the link below: youtu.be/Ql-lAUsRP68

Congratulations to Shiteng, Ruopeng, Yan and Xiaoqing! Check out our recent work about elctroplasticity that is just published by Nature Materials: nature.com/articles/s4156…

A team led by Prof. Minor was awarded $4.275 million over three years by DOE to develop methods and tools based on AI and ML to analyze electron scattering information from the data streams of fast direct electron detectors. als.lbl.gov/als-and-molecu…

Our systematic study of how oxygen impurities affect the mechanical properties of titanium is recently published in Science Advance. Congratulations to Yan, Ruopeng and Shiteng! Check the link here for details:advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/43/e…

Polystyrene is a classic brittle polymer. It is not supposed to be ductile at room temperature, but when tested in thin film form it kept stretching without breaking. Check out our recent work and the story here: foundry.lbl.gov/2020/12/18/bou…

Merry Christmas! Here is a ‘Minor’ gift made by focused ion beam.

We studied the electronic structure in berkelium and californium via an electron microscopy nanosampling approach. The article is just published in Nature Communications. Congratulations to Alex and Steve! Here is the link to the article: nature.com/articles/s4146…

After 70 years of facing challenges to studying actinide elements due to their scarcity and radioactivity, we can now analyze and image these elements in nanogram amounts using transmission electron microscopy. News: newscenter.lbl.gov/2021/03/24/the… dailycal.org/2021/03/30/ber…

NanoArt 2nd place: submitted by @TEM_blacksmith working with The Minor Research Group, a map of nanotwinned titanium – a super strong AND super ductile material. Learn more: bit.ly/NanoArtWinners… Berkeley Lab #scienceasart (3/8)

Nanotwinned Titanium Forges Path to Sustainable Manufacturing newscenter.lbl.gov/2021/10/20/nan… via Berkeley Lab

Thank you to everyone who voted in the 2022 MSA Leadership Election. The results are in and the elected candidates have officially been announced. Thank you for your participation in this important annual process!

In Some Metals, There Is Strength in Order energy.gov/science/bes/ar… via @energygov

Our Ti research program was featured on the cover of teh Berkeley College of Engineering Magazine: engineering.berkeley.edu/news/2022/04/a…

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Say Hello to the Toughest Material on Earth: A new study reveals the profound properties of a simple metal alloy newscenter.lbl.gov/2022/12/08/say…

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This Alloy is Kinky: Researchers have uncovered a remarkable metal alloy that won’t crack at extreme temperatures due to kinking, or bending, of crystals in the alloy at the atomic level newscenter.lbl.gov/2024/04/22/thi…