The MSE Department at UMD is hiring a T/TT faculty member to utilize a NEOARM 200F coming winter of 2024! Candidates in areas such as in situ TEM and advanced TEM characterization (ptychography/4DSTEM) are encouraged to apply tinyurl.com/7rrcwt35

A feature article reviewing recent work in our lab using liquid phase TEM and correlative analytic methods to unravel chemical processes during colloidal metal nanoparticle synthesis was published in Chemical Communications today! Congrats to the students involved! tinyurl.com/mr2euezh

BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2023 #NobelPrize in Chemistry to Moungi G. Bawendi, Louis E. Brus and Alexei I. Ekimov “for the discovery and synthesis of quantum dots.”

Our work has now been published in Nature Communications! TLDR: Active droplets can form unconventional morphologies like shells of liquid material. nature.com/articles/s4146…

New Feature Article from Taylor Woehl & 1st author Amy Chen: ‘Unraveling chemical processes during nanoparticle synthesis with liquid phase electron microscopy and correlative techniques’ @woehllab, @MaterialsUM, UMD Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry buff.ly/3tO8li3 buff.ly/3tO8li3

Thrilled that my first first-author cover art that I designed is finally out! 🎉Read more about some of my PhD liquid #ElectronMicroscopy work on collagen mineralization in collaboration with the Kathryn Grandfield, Sone Lab & Kelly Lab here: doi.org/10.1021/acs.na… #MyACSCover

Just a reminder that the Liquid phase EM GRC in Lucca, Italy on January 28 is fast approaching! Historically, students have received a sizeable travel stipend, so this is a great opportunity to attend an international conference! Apply at tinyurl.com/y47ksb5m #Microscopy

Excited and grateful to receive an U.S. National Science Foundation CAREER award. This means you will hear a lot more about membrane hydrodynamics from me in the coming years. For now, I am thankful to students, colleagues, mentors, family, and the UC Davis + UC Davis College of Engineering ecosystem that made this possible.

UMD Alumni Cup #ChemEfortheCup

The abstract deadline for the 2024 ACS Colloid and Surface Science Symposium held at University of Washington June 23rd is coming up. Make sure to get your abstracts in by March 1, it's sure to be a great meeting! colloids2024.org/abstract-submi…

Congrats to Jiayue Sun for receiving a summer graduate research fellowship for her excellent research on in situ electron microscopy of alloyed nanoparticle formation mechanisms!

We’re excited about EVs and their potential to help diagnose and treat women’s reproductive health! Check out our review in Nanoscale!

Thrilled to share that I have been promoted to Full Professorship in the Department of Mechanical Engineering UMD Department of Mechanical Engineering, Maryland Engineering , University of Maryland. In this hour of joy, I thank my mentors, advisors, past and current students, family and friends.

Congrats to Bals et al. on their work imaging organic ligands on nanoparticles in liquid with electron microscopy! Take a look at the News and Views article co-authored by Damien Alloyeau (CNRS) and myself: tinyurl.com/4ab25tzy Nature Chemistry

Our new collaborative paper with the Hutzler lab at HI-ERN has been published in Small Structures! We utilized liquid phase TEM and reaction network modeling to establish molecular scale formation mechanisms of silver nanoparticles. tinyurl.com/yzksp8en

Our August issue is live! ML-assisted flow reactor design, a DNA-based chemical neuron that 'senses' temperature, large-scale graphene-based current collectors, direct imaging of nanocube self-assembly pathways, and more! Read the full issue here: nature.com/natchemeng/vol…

Congrats to the Woehl and Asa-Awuku labs on their joint publication in Environmental Science & Technology! We used in situ TEM to reveal surprising nanoscale dissolution and droplet growth dynamics during water vapor uptake on NaCl nanocubes. Environmental Science & Technology Journals tinyurl.com/2kcjnfue

Online now! A News & Views from Taylor Woehl (Taylor J Woehl) covers a recent Article by Xingchen Ye, Sharon Glotzer & co-workers. Original Article: nature.com/articles/s4428… N&V link ($): nature.com/articles/s4428… ➡️Free read PDF: rdcu.be/dRAAE

We have an opening for a postdoctoral fellow in our lab focusing on visualizing atomic scale pyrolysis dynamics of polymer derived ceramics using gas phase in situ TEM, 4D STEM, and EELS. Apply here: ejobs.umd.edu/hr/postings/12…

The U.S. Air Force invested over $1.2M in electron microscopy research initiatives that could unveil new technologies for aerospace materials. Visit 🔗 go.umd.edu/AirForceResear… to learn about the two projects led by Associate Professor Taylor Woehl.