The Eva Olsson research division is involved in the design and tailoring of materials to enable new sustainable solutions for energy harvesting, energy storage, energy consumption, catalysis, quantum technology and the use of soft matter in applications such as coatings for controlled drug release and solar cells. The function of the materials depends on the atomic structure where individual atoms play a role and also their exact position. We are using high spatial resolution imaging, spectroscopy and in situ techniques to quantitatively study the material structure (including techniques with high spatial precision in determining the position of atoms (1 pm), high energy resolution to determine electronic structure and high spatial precision in situ for electrical, mechanical, optical and thermal manipulation) and correlate the structure to properties.
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RECENT NEWS & EVENTS
March 9th, 2020: Gustav, Andy and Eva have co-authored a paper published in Nature Materials regarding ground-state electron transfer in all-polymer donor-acceptor heterojunctions. The important findings in the study hold promise for use in, for example, thermoelectrics and wearable electronics. This is a collaboration with Simone Fabiano’s group in Linköping University. There are also contributions from University of Washington, University of Cologne, Chiba University, Yunnan University and the group of Christian Müller at Chalmers University of Technology. You can read the article here. January 14th, 2020: Eva Olsson has been interviewed by Jeol. Eva talks about what inspires her, the research at the Eva Olsson Group and the exciting challenges up ahead. You can read the interview here. January 14th, 2020: Lunjie Zeng and Shun Kondo has received project funding from Excellence Initiative Nano for instrument building. The aim of the project is to build a multifunctional TEM holder for studying strain, bias and light induced effects in functional materials at the atomic scale. December 2nd, 2019: Andy and Eva have published a paper in Nano Letters about using STEM EELS to visualize on the nano-scale the strong light-matter interactions between light produced by plamonic nanopyramids and excitons in TMDC materials. This was in collaboration with Timur Shegai's group here at Chalmers and Mathieu Kociak's group in Orsay, France. You can find the paper here. December 2nd, 2019: Andy, Torben and Eva have published a paper in Imaging and Microscopy about atomic site-specific strain mapping from high precision STEM images. This was in collaboration with Henrik Grönbeck's group here at Chalmers. You can find the paper here. July 22nd, 2019: We would like to welcome two new Post Docs to the Eva Olsson Group: Dr. Gabriel Sánchez Santolino and Dr. Shun Kondo. We are very happy to have you join!! June 11-14, 2019: The Eva Olsson Group presented various projects at the SCANDEM 2019 meeting (70th annual meeting of the Nordic Microscopy Society). Andy gave an invited lecture, Shun gave a contributed lecture for which he won the prize for best contributed lecture, Gabriel gave a contributed lecture, and Cecilia and Jonatan gave poster presentations. |