PEMC Open Day - April 9th, 2025
Join the PEMC for an Open Day on April 9th, 2025! The day will include presentations from staff and users, a poster session during lunch, and tours of the EM Center's three locations across campus. Please register for the event if you plan to attend so the EM staff can plan accordingly for lunches and coordinating tours through small spaces.
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The day will start in Room 121 of the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship at 9:30 am, where the event will kick off with presentations from staff and users of the EM Center, highlighting the capabilities and applications of the equipment in the PEMC. Lunch will follow, with concurrent poster presentations showcasing more research that is supported by the PEMC. Lunch will be provided by Thermo Fisher Scientific, who is the manufacturer of 10 of the electron microscopes in the center.
After lunch, there will be rotating tours between the three PEMC locations across campus: Whistler Hall, Birck Nanotechnology Center, and Armstrong Hall.
Agenda
Morning SessionS:
Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship (Room 121)
1201 Mitch Daniels Blvd.
West Lafayette, IN 47907-2057
9:30 AM – Welcome by Dan DeLaurentis, Vice President for Discovery Park District Institutes
9:35 AM – Opening Remarks: Center Overview & Perspectives by Christopher Gilpin, Director of the Purdue EM Center
9:45 AM – Highlights of the PEMC's S/TEM Capabilities by Zhongxia Shang & Peng Zuo, PEMC Staff
10:00 AM – Highlights of the PEMC's SEM & FIB Capabilities by Sidnie Bienz & Prem Singh Thapa Chetri, PEMC Staff
10:20 AM – User Presentation: Advanced HR-STEM Characterization of the Persistence of Deformation Twinning in HAYNES® 244® Superalloy by Victoria Tucker (Graduate Student, MSE)
10:45 AM – User Presentation: Functionalization of DNA Origami and Crystals by Alex Swett (Graduate Student, ME)
11:05 AM – User Presentation: Frozen in time - Utilizing Cryo SEM to Understand the Impacts of Hydrogels on Early-age Cement Hydrates by Akul Seshadri (Graduate Student, MSE)
11:25 AM – Vendor Presentation: An Overview of Elemental and Microstructural Analysis Capabilities in the SEM with EDS and EBSD by Joe Lefebvre (Oxford Instruments)
11:40 AM – User Presentation: Probing Electrodeposition with Electron Microscopy: From Nanoparticle Formation to Battery Applications by Saptarshi (Rishi) Paul (Graduate Student, Chemistry)
Lunch Time / Poster Session:
Afternoon Session — EM Center Tours:
Whistler Hall (Suite S042–S062)
170 S. University Street
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Phone: 756-494-6666
We are located in the sub-basement...below the basement.
1. TEM: T20 (Sidnie Bienz)
2. TEM: T12 (Sidnie Bienz)
3. FIB/SEM: Quanta 3D (Sidnie Bienz)
4. SEM: Apreo 2S (Sidnie Bienz)
5. SEM: Teneo Volumescope (Sidnie Bienz)
6. Sample Preparation (Bob Seiler)
Birck Nanotechnology Center
1205 Mitch Daniels Blvd.
West Lafayette, IN 47907
Mitch Daniels Blvd. was renamed in honor of past-president Mitch Daniels. Depending on the navigation app you use, you may also find the Birck Nanotechnology Center on "1205 W State St." if the road name has not been updated on the app.
1. S/TEM: Double-Corrected Themis Z (Zhongxia Shang & Peng Zuo)
2. FIB/SEM: Helios G4 (Peng Zuo)
3. SEM: Cleanroom Apreo S (Peng Zuo)
4. SEM: Hitachi SEM (Zhongxia Shang)
5. Sample Preparation Room (Zhongxia Shang)
Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering (B200 Suite)
701 West Stadium Ave.
West Lafayette, IN 47907
1. SEM: Quanta 650 (Prem Singh Thapa Chetri)
2. S/TEM: Talos F200i (Prem Singh Thapa Chetri)
3. Sample Preparation (Prem Singh Thapa Chetri)