Journal article
Towards an integrated materials characterization toolbox
Journal of materials research, Vol.26(11), pp.1341-1383
06/14/2011
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/108743
Abstract
The material characterization toolbox has recently experienced a number of parallel revolutionary advances, foreshadowing a time in the near future when material scientists can quantify material structure evolution across spatial and temporal space simultaneously. This will provide insight to reaction dynamics in four-dimensions, spanning multiple orders of magnitude in both temporal and spatial space. This study presents the authors’ viewpoint on the material characterization field, reviewing its recent past, evaluating its present capabilities, and proposing directions for its future development. Electron microscopy; atom probe tomography; x-ray, neutron and electron tomography; serial sectioning tomography; and diffraction-based analysis methods are reviewed, and opportunities for their future development are highlighted. Advances in surface probe microscopy have been reviewed recently and, therefore, are not included [D.A. Bonnell et al.: Rev. Modern Phys. in Review]. In this study particular attention is paid to studies that have pioneered the synergetic use of multiple techniques to provide complementary views of a single structure or process; several of these studies represent the state-of-the-art in characterization and suggest a trajectory for the continued development of the field. Based on this review, a set of grand challenges for characterization science is identified, including suggestions for instrumentation advances, scientific problems in microstructure analysis, and complex structure evolution problems involving material damage. The future of microstructural characterization is proposed to be one not only where individual techniques are pushed to their limits, but where the community devises strategies of technique synergy to address complex multiscale problems in materials science and engineering.
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- Title
- Towards an integrated materials characterization toolbox
- Creators
- Ian M Robertson - Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois 61801Christopher A Schuh - †Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139John S Vetrano - ‡Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, District of Columbia 20585Nigel D Browning - §Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California—Davis, Davis, California 95616; and Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California 94550David P Field - ¶School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington 99164Dorte Juul Jensen - Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Materials Research Division, Technical University of Denmark, 4000 Roskilde, DenmarkMichael K Miller - ††Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831Ian Baker - ‡‡Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire 03755David C Dunand - §§Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208Rafal Dunin-Borkowski - ¶¶Center for Electron Nanoscopy, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Kongens Lyngby, DenmarkBernd Kabius - Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439Tom Kelly - †††Cameca Instruments Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin 53711Sergio Lozano-Perez - ‡‡‡Department of Materials, University of Oxford, OxfordOX1 3PH, United KingdomAmit Misra - §§§MPA-CINT, MS K771, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico 87545Gregory S Rohrer - ¶¶¶Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213Anthony D Rollett - ¶¶¶Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213Mitra L Taheri - Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104Greg B Thompson - ††††Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 35487Michael Uchic - ‡‡‡‡Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio 45433Xun-Li Wang - §§§§Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831Gary Was - ¶¶¶¶Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 48109
- Publication Details
- Journal of materials research, Vol.26(11), pp.1341-1383
- Academic Unit
- Mechanical and Materials Engineering, School of
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; New York, USA
- Number of pages
- 43
- Identifiers
- 99900547039201842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article