Since June 2023, the six-person team of the Nano Imaging Lab Nano Imaging Lab (from left to right: Susanne Valuable partners for research Erpel, Alexander Vogel, Monica Schönenberger, Marcus Wyss, Evi Bieler and Daniel Mathys) has and education been led by the nanoscientist Marcus Wyss. In 2023, the team of the Nano Imaging Lab supported numerous research projects in the material sciences — including in col- laboration with the ANAXAM Technology Transfer Center and the companies Artidis AG (Basel (BS)), Tiefbohrbär GmbH (Ro- “The Nano Imaging Lab’s thrist (AG)), Solvias AG (Kaiseraugst, AG) and mz partner GmbH contribution in the 昀椀eld of (Neudorf (LU)). electron microscopy offers There was also a productive collaboration with the Univer- ANAXAM an important addition sity of Genoa and the start-up ELDICO Scienti昀椀c, in which the to our analytical expertise in the NI Lab contributed analyses of gold-magnesium layers. In this 昀椀eld of neutron and synchrotron interdisciplinary project, researchers are investigating gold and analysis.” magnesium layers that have been fused together at high pres- Dr. Christian Grünzweig, sure and temperature. In the process, various phases with dif- CEO ANAXAM ferent stoichiometric compositions emerge at the interface between the two metals. The project participants hope to iden- tify a new composition of magnesium and gold with novel prop- erties that could be of interest for various applications. In this project, the NI Lab used a focused ion beam (FIB) to cut lamellas out of the interfaces as well as EDX analysis to determine the precise composition of these lamellas and to measure the two-dimensional crystal structures of the di昀昀erent phases. With its newly developed electron di昀昀ractometer, the partner company ELDICO Scientific delivered additional three-dimensional structures so that the researchers now have access to precise information regarding the composition and structure of the interfaces. SNI Annual Report 2023 47