Streaming Large-Scale Microscopy Data to a Supercomputing Facility.

Data management is a critical component of modern experimental workflows. As data generation rates increase, transferring data from acquisition servers to processing servers via conventional file-based methods is becoming increasingly impractical. The 4D Camera at the National Center for Electron Microscopy generates data at a nominal rate of 480 Gbit s-1 (87,000 frames s-1), producing a 700 GB dataset in 15 s.

TomoPyUI: a user-friendly tool for rapid tomography alignment and reconstruction.

The management and processing of synchrotron and neutron computed tomography data can be a complex, labor-intensive and unstructured process. Users devote substantial time to both manually processing their data (i.e.

Effect of Nanoscale Confinement on Polymer-Infiltrated Scaffold Metal Composites.

Most research on polymer composites has focused on adding discrete inorganic nanofillers to a polymer matrix to impart properties not found in polymers alone. However, properties such as ion conductivity and mechanical reinforcement would be greatly improved if the composite exhibited an interconnected network of inorganic and polymer phases. Here, we fabricate bicontinuous polymer-infiltrated scaffold metal (PrISM) composites by infiltrating polymer into nanoporous gold (NPG) films.

Using X-Ray Scattering to Elucidate the Microstructural Instability of 3D Bicontinuous Nanoporous Metal Scaffolds for Use in an Aperiodic 3D Tricontinuous Conductor-Insulator-Conductor Nanocapacitor.

The development of three-dimensional aperiodic energy storage devices is in part impeded by the lack of appropriate aperiodic templates that can withstand the thermal conditions required to deposit energy storage materials within their void space. Herein, the feasibility of an aperiodic three-dimensional architecture for energy storage is demonstrated for the first time by constructing a tricontinuous conductor-insulator-conductor (CIC) nanocapacitor on an aperiodic nanoporous gold scaffold. To accomplish this, the scaffold was characterized using small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) during exposure to a thermal environment, revealing that its microstructure eventually stabilizes after undergoing a phase of rapid coarsening, indicating a departure from the 1/4 time-dependent power-law coarsening behavior usually observed at the early stage of the coarsening process.