Maureen Lagos - McMaster Experts

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Faculty of Engineering, McMaster University
Associate Professor, Materials Science and Engineering, Faculty of Engineering

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- Atomic-size Silver Nanotube. 493-494. 2008
- Elongation of Atomic-size Wires: Atomistic Aspects and Quantum Conductance Studies. 491-492. 2008
conferences
- Correlation Between Quantum Conductance and Atomic Arrangement of Silver Atomic-Size Nanocontacts. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings. 1-6. 2012
- Low temperature (LN₂) and UHV mechanically controllable break junction setup to study quantum electrical transport of atomic-size metal nanowire. Journal of Physics: Conference Series. 052001-052001. 2008
- Structural Study of the Formation of Suspended Linear Atomic Chains from Platinum Nanowires Stretching. Materials Research Society Symposium - Proceedings. 168-173. 2008
- Structural and electronic properties of atomic-size wires at low temperatures. Journal of Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena. 20-24. 2007
journal articles
- Atomic-scale mapping of interfacial phonon modes in epitaxial YBa2Cu3O7-δ/(La,Sr)(Al,Ta)O3 thin films: The role of surface phonons. Physical Review Materials. 9:074801. 2025
- Synthesis of carbon-based materials by methane pyrolysis in a low-current gliding arc discharge. Surface and Coatings Technology. 505. 2025
- Bone mineralization and the effects of elevated osteopontin: from symmetry-breaking foci to 3D space-filling tessellation.. Faraday Discussions. 2025
- Anisotropic behavior of plasmons in kagome metal YCr₆Ge₆. APL Materials. 13. 2025
- Accessing Thermal Phonon States Within Nanoscale Cavities. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 30:151. 2024
- Unveiling Coupled Dark Plasmon Modes in CdO Structures. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 30:1133-1134. 2024
- Plasmon Dispersions of Superconducting BiPt. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 30:1499-1500. 2024
- Evidence for conventional superconductivity in Bi2PdPt and prediction of possible topological superconductivity in disorder-free γ−BiPd. Physical review B (PRB). 109. 2024
- Unveiling Phonon Dispersion Behavior of AlN/GaN Heterostructures Using EELS. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 29:354-355. 2023
- Spectroscopy of Nanosphere-Substrate Coupling: The Role of Multipolar Surface Phonon Modes. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 28:2456-2458. 2022
- Thermal Effects on the Phonon Polariton Response of Nanoscale Cavities. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 28:1966-1968. 2022
- Advances in ultrahigh-energy resolution EELS: phonons, infrared plasmons and strongly coupled modes. Microscopy (Oxford, England). 71:i174-i199. 2022
- Imaging Hybrid Plasmon-Phonon Modes in Mid-Infrared Antennas. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 27:1478-1480. 2021
- Probing Phonon Polaritons Across Nanoscale Gaps. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 27:702-704. 2021
- Substrate Effects on the Phonon Response of Individual Dielectric Nanostructures. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 27:312-314. 2021
- Imaging Strongly Coupled Plasmon–Phonon Modes in Mid-Infrared Double Antennas. ACS Photonics. 8:1293-1300. 2021
- Infrared surface phonon nanospectroscopy of an interacting dielectric-particle–dielectric-substrate dimer using fast electrons. Physical review B (PRB). 103. 2021
- Pnictogens Allotropy and Phase Transformation during van der Waals Growth. Nano Letters. 20:8258-8266. 2020
- Tunable Infrared Plasmon Response of Lithographic Sn‐doped Indium Oxide Nanostructures. Advanced Optical Materials. 8. 2020
- Strong Phonon-Plasmon Coupling Between Nanoscale Antennas. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 26:1498-1500. 2020
- 2D Antimony–Arsenic Alloys. Small. 16:e1906540. 2020
- Colloidal plasmonic nanostar antennas with wide range resonance tunability. Nanoscale. 11:18662-18671. 2019
- Single Atomic Vacancy Catalysis. ACS Nano. 13:9958-9964. 2019
- Probing Phonon and Infrared-Plasmons in Nanoscale Interfaces. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 25:598-599. 2019
- Biosensors: NIR Biosensing of Neurotransmitters in Stem Cell‐Derived Neural Interface Using Advanced Core–Shell Upconversion Nanoparticles (Adv. Mater. 14/2019). Advanced Materials. 31. 2019
- NIR Biosensing of Neurotransmitters in Stem Cell‐Derived Neural Interface Using Advanced Core–Shell Upconversion Nanoparticles. Advanced Materials. 31:e1806991. 2019
- Interpretation of meV Resolution Phonon EELS Data. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 24:412-413. 2018
- Nanoscale Temperature Measurements Using Phonon Scattering. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 24:420-421. 2018
- Vibrational Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy of Astrosilicates. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 24:424-425. 2018
- Thermometry with Subnanometer Resolution in the Electron Microscope Using the Principle of Detailed Balancing. Nano Letters. 18:4556-4563. 2018
- Inelastic vibrational bulk and surface losses of swift electrons in ionic nanostructures. Physical review B (PRB). 97. 2018
- Excitation of long-wavelength surface optical vibrational modes in films, cubes and film/cube composite system using an atom-sized electron beam. Microscopy (Oxford, England). 67:i3-i13. 2018
- Characterization of misfit dislocations in Si quantum well structures enabled by STEM based aberration correction. Ultramicroscopy. 180:34-40. 2017
- Mapping vibrational surface and bulk modes in a single nanocube. Nature. 543:529-532. 2017
- The role of electronic coupling between substrate and 2D MoS2 nanosheets in electrocatalytic production of hydrogen. Nature Materials. 15:1003-1009. 2016
- Mapping EELS Vibrational Modes in MgO Nanocubes. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 22:954-955. 2016
- Attosecond and femtosecond forces exerted on gold nanoparticles induced by swift electrons. Physical review B (PRB). 93. 2016
- Ultrafast Plasmonic Forces Imposed by Fast Electrons on Metal Particles. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 21:1417-1418. 2015
- Surface effects on the mechanical elongation of AuCu nanowires: De-alloying and the formation of mixed suspended atomic chains. Journal of Applied Physics. 117. 2015
- Selective decoration of isolated carbon nanotubes by potassium evaporation: scanning photoemission microscopy and density functional theory. Journal of Materials Chemistry C. 3:2518-2527. 2015
- Vibrational spectroscopy in the electron microscope. Nature. 514:209-212. 2014
- Attosecond Forces Imposed by Swift Electrons on Nanometer-Sized Metal Particles. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 20:576-577. 2014
- Size and Shape Effects on the Mechanical Deformation of 1-nm-wide Gold Nanorods. Microscopy and Microanalysis. 18:768-769. 2012
- Correlation between quantum conductance and atomic arrangement of atomic-size silver nanowires. Journal of Applied Physics. 111. 2012
- Towards atomic resolution in sodium titanate nanotubes using near-edge X-ray-absorption fine-structure spectromicroscopy combined with multichannel multiple-scattering calculations. Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology. 3:789-797. 2012
- Atomic Oxygen Functionalization of Vertically Aligned Carbon Nanotubes. Journal of Physical Chemistry C. 115:20412-20418. 2011
- Temperature effects on the occurrence of long interatomic distances in atomic chains formed from stretched gold nanowires. Nanotechnology. 22:095705-095705. 2011
- Intrinsic Stability of the Smallest Possible Silver Nanotube. Physical Review Letters. 106:065501. 2011
- Mechanical Deformation of Nanoscale Metal Rods: When Size and Shape Matter. Physical Review Letters. 106:055501. 2011
- Temperature effects on the atomic arrangement and conductance of atomic-size gold nanowires generated by mechanical stretching. Nanotechnology. 21:485702-485702. 2010
- Observation of the smallest metal nanotube with a square cross-section. Nature Nanotechnology. 4:149-152. 2009
- On the Lifetime of Suspended Atomic Chains Formed from Stretched Metallic Gold Nanowires. Physicae. 8.
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