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2026 Midwest Microscopy & Microanalysis Society (M3S) Spring Meeting



Emerging Opportunities and Challenges in In-Situ Microscopy

Friday, March 27, 2026
8:30 AM - 4:00 PM (CST)

Featured Speakers & Schedule

View the abstract booklet!
Stephen House Feng Wang
Dr. Stephen House
Sandia National Lab

"Tour de Fracture: High-cycle fatigue in the TEM. New techniques, discoveries, and opportunities"
Dr. Feng Wang
Argonne National Laboratory

"iPE4Pilot: integrated Process Engineering for Pilot-ready Cathode Production Enabled by In Situ Synchrotron X-ray and Electron Microscopy"

Meeting Schedule 

8:30 - 9:30 AM Registration: Louis Lobby, outside of the Louis Room, #2-232
Continental Breakfast and Coffee: Northwestern Room, #2-160
9:30 - 9:35 AM Welcome and Opening Remarks
9:35 - 10:20 AM Keynote speaker: Dr. Stephen House, Sandia National Lab
Tour de Fracture: High-cycle fatigue in the TEM. New techniques, discoveries, and opportunities
10:20 - 10:55 AM Dr. Po-Cheng Kung, UW-Madison
Intermittent Dynamics and Local Mobility in Metallic Supercooled Liquids: Insights from Electron Correlation Microscopy via Time-Resolved 4D-STEM
10:55 - 11:15 AM Break & Visit with Vendors 
11:15 - 11:40 AM Nathan Rosenmann, Northwestern University
Assessing the Consequences of Liquid Thickness on the Spatial Resolution of Low Flux Liquid-Phase Transmission Electron Microscopy
11:40 - 12:05 AM Dr. Stephen Mick, Gatan Inc
Dose Fractionated EELS: Pushing the limits of Low-Dose Experiments
12:05 - 12:30 PM Shoaib Masood, University of Illinois Chicago
Pushing the Limits of In-Situ Electron Microscopy: Enabling Atomic-Resolution Imaging and Chemistry in 2D-Material Liquid Nanoreactors
12:30 - 2:00 PM Lunch: Northwestern Room, #2-160
Visit with Vendors:
Louis Room, #2-232
2:00 - 2:15 PM M3S Business Meeting
2:15 - 3:00 PM Keynote speaker: Dr. Feng Wang
iPE4Pilot: integrated Process Engineering for Pilot-ready Cathode Production Enabled by In Situ Synchrotron X-ray and Electron Microscopy
3:00 - 3:35 PM Dr. Thilini Umesha Dissanayake, University of Illinois Chicago
Liquid Phase Electron Microscopy for High‑Temperature Electrochemical Studies 
3:35 - 4:00 PM Miguel Blanco, COO, CIQTEK America
RISE Microscopy: Correlative Raman–SEM Integration for Multimodal Micro- and Nanoscale Characterization   
4:00 - 4:05 PM Closing Remarks