Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries and new ideas, probably in that order.
Sydney Brenner, 2002 Nobel Prize Laureate
Microscopy imaging is a crucial tool for material scientists to understand the in-situ properties of the increasingly complex and dynamic materials they synthesize and formulate. It has recently become a real challenge for material scientists to understand and characterize the complexity and dynamicity in high spatial and temporal resolution, and this has reached a point that lack of appropriate characterization techniques are the main hurdles instead of chemical synthesis.
In the beginning of their recently published book, “Super-resolution Microscopy for Material Science”, dr. Lorenzo Albertazzi and dr. Peter Zijlstra, principle investigators at TU/e’s ICMS, cited this timely quote from Brenner (highlighted above), by which they try to emphasize that we are at a time when microscopy techniques are driving the future development and discovery of new materials.
In this exciting new book, the authors and editors have made a fantastic compilation of both practical guides and state-of-the-art applications of super-resolution microscopy, an exciting and ever-growing tool awarded the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2014. This book offers a fresh perspective on material science, focusing on the application of super-resolution microscopy. Unlike existing works in chemistry, life sciences, and biology, it highlights the integration of quantitative analysis and statistics-driven interpretation of microscopy results, providing new insights and approaches in the understanding and development of new functional synthetic material, biosensing devices, and nanomedicine.
Read the book here: Super-resolution Microscopy for Material Science, 1st Edition, Routledge Taylor & Francis Group