Perspectives in Scanning Probe Microscopy from the 2021 Joint International Scanning Probe Microscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy on Soft and Polymeric Materials Conference

Collins, Liam; Killgore, Jason; Berweger, Samuel; Cohn, Rachael; Domingo Marimon, Neus; Fantner, Georg; Giridharagopal, Rajiv; Kalinin, Sergei V.; Leclere, Philippe; Nakajima, Ken; Pittenger, Bede; Pyne, Alice L.B.; Scheuring, Simon; Vasudevan, Rama K.; Yablon, Dalia

Title: Perspectives in Scanning Probe Microscopy from the 2021 Joint International Scanning Probe Microscopy and Scanning Probe Microscopy on Soft and Polymeric Materials Conference

Journal Article · 26 November 2021 · Microscopy and Analysis

OSTI ID:1833927

^[1]; Killgore, Jason ^[2]; Berweger, Samuel ^[2]; Cohn, Rachael ^[3];

^[4]; Fantner, Georg ^[5]; Giridharagopal, Rajiv ^[6];

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^[7]; Nakajima, Ken ^[8]; Pittenger, Bede ^[9]; Pyne, Alice L.B. ^[10]; Scheuring, Simon ^[3];

^[1]; Yablon, Dalia ^[11]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
National Inst. of Standards and Technology (NIST), Boulder, CO (United States)
Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States)
Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia (ICN2), Barcelona (Spain); The Barcelona Institute of Nanoscience and Technology (BIST) (Spain)
Ecole Polytechnique Federale Lausanne (Switzerland)
Univ. of Washington, Seattle, WA (United States)
University of Mons (UMONS) (Belgium)
Tokyo Institute of Technology (Japan)
Bruker Nano GmbH, Berlin (Germany)
Univ. of Sheffield (United Kingdom)
SurfaceChar LLC, Sharon, MA (United States)

In March of 2020 we were well on our way to organizing and hosting one of the premier scanning probe microscopy (SPM) conferences in Breckenridge, Colorado, USA. For the first time, the meeting would synergistically combine International Scanning Probe Microscopy (ISPM) and Scanning Probe Microscopy on Soft and Polymeric Materials (SPMonSPM), to increase the breadth of audience expertise and experience. We coined the joint conference iSPM³ – a moniker we hope will persist in future events. The plan for 2020 iSPM³ screeched to a halt in mid-March, amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Luckily, we were able to regroup and reimagine the conference for 2021 as a virtual experience. The conference took place June 28th to July 2nd with a mix of live and pre-recorded content. Spread throughout the week were 4 live panel discussions, 3 plenary talks, 23 invited talks, 75 contributed talks, 15 posters and 3 social events. The technical program represented much of the latest and most impactful research in the field. The panel discussions sought to step back from specific research findings and assess the state of SPM as it pertains to some of the most pressing opportunities and influential successes. The lively discussions painted a vibrant future for SPM in both breadth and detail, and we hope that similar discussion can be a mainstay of future SPM conferences. In this work, we attempt to distill some of that discussion to motivate researchers across the field of SPM in the coming years.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC05-00OR22725

OSTI ID:: 1833927

Journal Information:: Microscopy and Analysis, Vol. 57, Issue 1; Related Information: https://analyticalscience.wiley.com/do/10.1002/was.00170317; ISSN 2043-0639