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Towards an integrated materials characterization toolbox

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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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Acknowledgments

This report was sponsored by the Council of Materials Science and Engineering of the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences. The authors thank Dr. Linda Horton and Professor Frances Hellman for their support. IMR acknowledges the support from Department of Energy BES under grants DE-FG02-07ER46443 and DE-FG02-08ER46525 for preparing this report. CS acknowledges the support from the National Science Foundation under grant DMR-0855402.

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  1. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, 61801, USA

    Ian M. Robertson

  2. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02139, USA

    Christopher A. Schuh

  3. Materials Sciences and Engineering Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, Washington, District of Columbia, 20585, USA

    John S. Vetrano

  4. Department of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science and Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology, University of California—Davis, Davis, California, 95616, USA

    Nigel D. Browning

  5. Condensed Matter and Materials Division, Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, 94550, USA

    Nigel D. Browning

  6. School of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, 99164, USA

    David P. Field

  7. Risø National Laboratory for Sustainable Energy, Materials Research Division, Technical University of Denmark, 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Dorte Juul Jensen

  8. Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA

    Michael K. Miller

  9. Thayer School of Engineering, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, 03755, USA

    Ian Baker

  10. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 60208, USA

    David C. Dunand

  11. Center for Electron Nanoscopy, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800, Kongens Lyngby, Denmark

    Rafal Dunin-Borkowski

  12. Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois, 60439, USA

    Bernd Kabius

  13. Cameca Instruments Corporation, Madison, Wisconsin, 53711, USA

    Tom Kelly

  14. Department of Materials, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PH, United Kingdom

    Sergio Lozano-Perez

  15. MPA-CINT, Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS K771, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 87545, USA

    Amit Misra

  16. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 15213, USA

    Gregory S. Rohrer & Anthony D. Rollett

  17. Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Drexel University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19104, USA

    Mitra L. Taheri

  18. Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487, USA

    Greg B. Thompson

  19. Materials & Manufacturing Directorate, Air Force Research Laboratory, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, 45433, USA

    Michael Uchic

  20. Neutron Scattering Science Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 37831, USA

    Xun-Li Wang

  21. Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48109, USA

    Gary Was

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Robertson, I.M., Schuh, C.A., Vetrano, J.S. et al. Towards an integrated materials characterization toolbox. Journal of Materials Research 26, 1341–1383 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1557/jmr.2011.41

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