The Annual International Conference of Electron Microscope Society of India (EMSI-2026: emsi2026.iitkgp.ac.in) is happening at IIT Kharagpur Research Park, Kolkata from Oct 2-4, 2026. The registration and the abstract submission are open. We are gearing up to have a good microscopy meeting.

Our collaborative work with Indranath's group got on the Small Structure Cover feature: doi.org/10.1002/sstr... Congratulations to the authors, and here is the link to the full article: doi.org/10.1002/sstr...

Have you ever come across materials with zero energy penalty for creating stacking faults? Check out our paper on TlGaSe2: doi.org/10.1038/s416... From streaked SAED patterns, we could model the faults. TEM is indeed handy to look at defects!

Elucidating the role of stacking faults in TlGaSe2 on its thermoelectric properties - npj 2D Materials and Applications

npj 2D Materials and Applications - Elucidating the role of stacking faults in TlGaSe2 on its thermoelectric properties

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My streak of microscopy on energy materials continues. This Birnessite NaxMnO2 rods are promising for Na-ion batteries! Give this a read: doi.org/10.1016/j.jp... Hopefully we'll have more soon about their structural part 😉

High-performance sodium-ion full cell using tunnel and layered-type composite cathode

Na0.44MnO2(NMO) powders are synthesized by auto combustion. At lower calcination temperature, carbothermal reductive environment preserves lamellar Bi…

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Fresh from the press on how nanoclusters influence the water splitting. The collaboration with Indra's experimental group has been super-fun, and our Paramshakti facility at IIT Kharagpur has been quite the workhorse! Well-done to the authors. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Deciphering Interfacial Charge Transfer Phenomena at Nickel Nanocluster–Oxide Interface toward Augmented Efficacy in Electrochemical Water Splitting

This work presents the design of nickel nanocluster–NiO nanosheet heterostructures as efficient bifunctional electrocatalysts for water splitting. By exploiting atomically precise nanoclusters rather....

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