Dr. Maureen Joel Lagos
Adjunct Assistant Professor
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
- Expertise:
- Nanomaterials, EELS spectroscopy (phonons and plasmons), in-situ HRTEM, Nanomechanics
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- Email:
- mjlagos
- Office:
- ABB-B157
- Phone:
- +1 905.525.9140 x 24862
Overview
Currently Accepting Graduate Students
Research Areas Include:
- Electron Microscopy of novel nanomaterials
- Electron energy-loss spectroscopy (Plasmons and Phonons)
- Low-Loss terahertz nanophotonics
- Nanoscale heat transfer
- Correlation between structure-properties of nanomaterials
Education
- Ph.D. The State University of Campinas
- Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Antwerp.
- Research Associate, RUTGERS, The State University of New Jersey.
Publications
Recent
Representative Publications:
- Nanoscale Temperature Measurements using Phonon Spectroscopy, NanoLetters 18, 4556, (2018).
- Mapping Surface and Bulk Phonon Modes in a Single Nanocube, Nature 543, 529 (2017).
- Vibrational Spectroscopy in the Electron Microscope, Nature 514, 209 (2014).
- Attosecond and Femtosecond Forces exerted on Nanoparticles induced by Swift Electrons, Physical Review B 93, 205440 (2016).
- The Role of Electronic Coupling between Substrate and 2D MoS2 Nanosheets in Electrocatalytic Production of Hydrogen, Nature Materials 15, 1003 (2016).
- Mechanical Deformation of Atom-sized Metal Rods: When Size and Shape Matter, Physical Review Letters 106, 55501 (2011).
- The Smallest Metal Nanotube with a Square Cross-section, Nature Nanotechnology 4, 149 (2009)