Team
Stephen J PENNYCOOK
Visiting Professor
Department of Materials Science & Engineering
Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences
Fellow, Institute of Physics (London)
American Institute of Physics
American Association for the Advancement of Science
Materials Research Society
Microscopy Society of America.
Stephen J. Pennycook, a highly cited researcher (2019), is a Visiting Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Dept., National University of Singapore, an Adjunct Professor in the University of Tennessee and Adjunct Professor in Vanderbilt University, USA. Previously, he was Corporate Fellow in the Materials Science and Technology Division of Oak Ridge National Laboratory and leader of the Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Group.
Professor Pennycook is a Fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Microscopy Society of America, the Institute of Physics and the Materials Research Society. He has received the Research and Development R&D100 Award in 1990, the Microbeam Analysis Society Heinrich Award in 1992, the Materials Research Society Medal in 1992, the Institute of Physics Thomas J. Young Medal and Award in 2001, UT-Battelle Director’s Award in 2005 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy, USA), the Hsun Lee Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Materials Research Society Innovation in Characterization Award in 2012.
He is a world-leading microscopist, a pioneer of scanning transmission electron microscopy, and laid the foundation of both theoretical and experimental modern microscopy. His contributions to the development of the Z-contrast technique for incoherent imaging of materials at atomic resolution and leadership in developing sub-Angstrom resolution aberration-corrected electron microscopy led to the first images of single atoms of boron, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen (Cover of Nature, in 2010 and featured in 2014)
- PhD, Physics, Cavendish Laboratory, University of Cambridge, 1978
- MSc, Natural Sciences, University of Cambridge, 1978
- BSc, Natural Sciences,University of Cambridge, 1975
Materials and nanostructures investigated with atomic-resolution Z contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy and electron energy loss spectroscopy.
2012 Materials Research Society Innovation in Characterization Award
2011 Hsun Lee Award of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
2005 Director’s Award for Outstanding Individual Accomplishment in Science and Technology (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Department of Energy, USA)
2001 Institute of Physics Thomas J. Young Medal and Award
1996 DOE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Metallurgy and Ceramics
1992 Materials Research Society Medal
1992 Microbeam Analysis Society Heinrich Award
1990 Research and Development R&D 100 Award
1989 DOE Award for Outstanding Achievement in Solid State Sciences
- J. Jia, P. G. O’Brien, L. He, Q. Qiao, T. Fei, L. M. Reyes, T. E. Burrow, Y. Dong, K. Liao, M. Varela, S. J. Pennycook, M. Hmadeh, A. S. Helmy, N. P. Kherani, D. D. Perovic, and G. A. Ozin. Visible and Near-Infrared Photothermal Catalyzed Hydrogenation of Gaseous CO2 Nanostructured Pd@Nb2O5. Adv. Sci, 3, 1600189 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.201600189
- S. J. Pennycook. Fulfilling Feynman’s dream: “Make the electron microscope 100 times better”— Are we there yet? MRS Bulletin, 40, 71–78 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1557/mrs.2014.307
- S. J. Pennycook and S. V. Kalinin. Hasten high resolution. Nature, 515, 487–488 (2014). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/515487a
- R. Ishikawa, A. R. Lupini, S. D. Findlay, T. Taniguchi, and S. J. Pennycook. Three-Dimensional Location of a Single Dopant with Atomic Precision by Aberration-Corrected Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy. Nano Lett, 1903−1908 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1021/nl500564b
- X. Zhang, J. Guo, P. Guan, C. Liu, H. Huang, F. Xue, X. Dong, S. J. Pennycook, and M. F. Chisholm. Catalytically active single-atom niobium in graphitic layers. Nature Communications, 4, 1924–7 (2013). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms2929
- H. Wang, W. Zhou, J.-X. Liu, R. Si, G. Sun, M.-Q. Zhong, H.-Y. Su, H.-B. Zhao, J. A. Rodriguez, S. J. Pennycook, J.-C. Idrobo, W.-X. Li, Y. Kou, and D. Ma. Platinum-Modulated Cobalt Nanocatalysts for Low-Temperature Aqueous-Phase Fischer–Tropsch Synthesis. J Am Chem Soc, 135, 4149– 4158 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1021/ja400771a
- Y. Li, W. Zhou, H. Wang, L. Xie, Y. Liang, F. Wei, J.-C. Idrobo, S. J. Pennycook, and H. Dai. An oxygen reduction electrocatalyst based on carbon nanotube-graphene complexes. Nature nanotechnology, 7, 394–400 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2012.72
- K. van Benthem, A. R. Lupini, M. P. Oxley, S. D. Findlay, L. J. Allen, and S. J. Pennycook. Three- dimensional ADF imaging of individual atoms by through-focal series scanning transmission electron microscopy. Ultramicroscopy, 106, 1062–1068 (2006). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ultramic.2006.04.020
- L. G. Wang, S. J. Pennycook, and S. T. Pantelides. The Role of the Nanoscale in Surface Reactions: CO2 on CdSe. Phys. Rev. Lett, 89, 933 (2002). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevlett.89.075506