
Bio
Liam Collins is an R&D staff scientist at the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), a Department of Energy Nanoscale Science Research Center. He has over a decade of experience in the area of material science with a specialization in the development of atomic force microscopy (AFM) techniques for characterizing structure-function properties on the nanoscale.
Awards
Outstanding CNMS Staff Member Award 2020
Significant Event Award 2020 (for advancement of quantitative scanning probe microscopy by interferometric detection sensing)
CNMS Distinguished Patent Award 2018
CNMS Postdoctoral Award 2017
R&D 100 Award 2016
Microscopy Today Innovation Award 2016
MRS Graduate Student Gold Award 2014
Publications
March 2025
Journal: Advanced Functional Materials
February 2025
Scalable Bottom-Up Synthesis of Nanoporous Hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN) for Large-Area Atomically…
Journal: Nano Letters
January 2025
Journal: Nuclear Science and Engineering
October 2024
Journal: Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing