Stephen J. Pennycook

Research.com Recognitions

• 2026 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
• 2025 - Research.com Materials Science in United States Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Materials Science in Singapore Leader Award
• 2022 - Research.com Physics in Singapore Leader Award
• 2012 - Innovation in Materials Characterization Award, Materials Research Society “For his pioneering use of aberration-corrected Z-contrast scanning transmission electron microscopy in the characterization of materials at the atomic scale.    
• 2011 - Fellow of the Materials Research Society
• 2010 - Fellow of the Mineralogical Society of America For his pioneering contributions to the development and application of atomic-resolution high angle annular dark field imaging and electron energy loss spectroscopy
• 2004 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
• 1993 - MRS Medal, Materials Research Society For the development and application of incoherent (Z-contrast) imaging in the scanning transmission electron microscope for direct determination of the atomic scale structure and chemistry of materials and interfaces.
• 1991 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For the development of highresolution Zcontrast transmission electron microscopy

Overview

Best Publications

• Nanoscale nickel oxide/nickel heterostructures for active hydrogen evolution electrocatalysis

  Ming Gong;Wu Zhou;Mon-Che Tsai;Jigang Zhou

  1727
  Citations

• An oxygen reduction electrocatalyst based on carbon nanotube–graphene complexes

  Yanguang Li;Wu Zhou;Wu Zhou;Hailiang Wang;Liming Xie

  1724
  Citations

• Atom-by-atom structural and chemical analysis by annular dark-field electron microscopy

  Ondrej L. Krivanek;Matthew F. Chisholm;Valeria Nicolosi;Timothy J. Pennycook;Timothy J. Pennycook

  1545
  Citations

• High-resolution Z-contrast imaging of crystals

  S.J. Pennycook;D.E. Jesson

  1096
  Citations

• High-entropy-stabilized chalcogenides with high thermoelectric performance.

  Binbin Jiang;Yong Yu;Yong Yu;Juan Cui;Xixi Liu

  1040
  Citations

• Colossal Ionic Conductivity at Interfaces of Epitaxial ZrO2:Y2O3/SrTiO3 Heterostructures

  J. Garcia-Barriocanal;A. Rivera-Calzada;M. Varela;Z. Sefrioui

  902
  Citations

• Chemically sensitive structure-imaging with a scanning transmission electron microscope

  S. J. Pennycook;L. A. Boatner

  824
  Citations

• High-resolution incoherent imaging of crystals

  S. J. Pennycook;D. E. Jesson

  806
  Citations

• Dopamine as a Carbon Source: The Controlled Synthesis of Hollow Carbon Spheres and Yolk-Structured Carbon Nanocomposites

  Rui Liu;Shannon M. Mahurin;Chen Li;Chen Li;Chen Li;Raymond R. Unocic

  790
  Citations

• Scanning transmission electron microscopy : imaging and analysis

  Stephen J. Pennycook;Peter D. Nellist

  739
  Citations

• Monolayer PtSe2, a New Semiconducting Transition-Metal-Dichalcogenide, Epitaxially Grown by Direct Selenization of Pt

  Yeliang Wang;Linfei Li;Wei Yao;Shiru Song

  712
  Citations

• ZnO Nanoneedles Grown Vertically on Si Substrates by Non‐Catalytic Vapor‐Phase Epitaxy

  Won Il Park;Gyu-Chul Yi;Miyoung Kim;Stephen J. Pennycook

  705
  Citations

• Z-contrast stem for materials science

  S.J. Pennycook

  705
  Citations

• Direct Sub-Angstrom Imaging of a Crystal Lattice

  Peter D. Nellist;Matthew F Chisholm;N. Dellby;O. L. Krivanek

  704
  Citations

• Hollow Mo-doped CoP nanoarrays for efficient overall water splitting

  Cao Guan;Wen Xiao;Haijun Wu;Ximeng Liu

  702
  Citations

• Atomic-resolution chemical analysis using a scanning transmission electron microscope

  N. D. Browning;M. F. Chisholm;S. J. Pennycook

  681
  Citations

• Defect Engineering of Oxygen-Deficient Manganese Oxide to Achieve High-Performing Aqueous Zinc Ion Battery

  Ting Xiong;Zhi Gen Yu;Haijun Wu;Yonghua Du

  668
  Citations

• Observation of a periodic array of flux-closure quadrants in strained ferroelectric PbTiO3 films

  Y. L. Tang;Y. L Zhu;Xiuliang Ma;Albina Y Borisevich

  617
  Citations

• Band gap engineering and layer-by-layer mapping of selenium-doped molybdenum disulfide.

  Yongji Gong;Zheng Liu;Zheng Liu;Andrew R. Lupini;Gang Shi

  591
  Citations

• High thermoelectric performance in low-cost SnS 0.91 Se 0.09 crystals.

  Wenke He;Dongyang Wang;Haijun Wu;Yu Xiao

  577
  Citations

• Incoherent imaging using dynamically scattered coherent electrons

  P.D. Nellist;S.J. Pennycook

  571
  Citations