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MCP Annual Users Meeting
2025-09-17 08:30 - 19:30 (America/Los_Angeles) | Stieff Silver Building, 800 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, 21211
Save the date for our first annual MCP Users Meeting! Whether you are a current user or curious about what the MCP has to offer, we invite you to our sessions on September 17th where you’ll learn about the capabilities at the facility, how we can advance your research, and more.
MCP Annual Users Meeting Agenda*

Date
17-Sep-25

Location
Stieff Silver Building MCP Floor

8:30 AM – 8:55 AM
Registration and continental breakfast

9:00 AM – 12:00 PM
WELCOME AND MORNING SESSION

9:00 – 9:10 AM
WSE Welcome
Larry Nagahara, Vice Dean for Research and Translation, WSE, JHU

9:15 – 9:30 AM
MCP Facility Overview
Mitra Taheri. MCP Director, WSE, JHU

9:35 – 9:50 AM
MCP Facility Operations
S Diallo, MCP Ex. Dir. Of Operations, WSE, JHU

9:55 AM – 10:25 AM
Break – Posters and Vendors display

10:30 AM – 11:10 AM
Electron Videography and Its Automation for Soft and Energy Materials
Qian Chen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

11:20 AM – 12:00 PM
Intelligent Automation in the Materials Lab: From Statistical Learning to Multi-Agent Reasoning
Maxim Ziatdinov, Pacific Northwest National Lab

12:10 – 12:20 PM
Group Photo

12:25 – 1:20 PM
Working Lunch
Revamping neutron scattering infrastructure for non-equilibrium measurements with FAIR Data at NIST
Craig Brown, NIST Center for Neutron Research

1:30 – 5:00 PM
AFTERNOON SESSION

1:30 – 1:50 PM
Examining Deformation Mechanisms in Geologic Materials and Concrete using In-Situ and Post-Mortem X-ray Imaging
Ryan Hurley, WSE, JHU

1:55 – 2:10 PM
Bioprinting is the approach to realize the new NIH and FDA mission to prioritize human-based research technologies
Yun Chen, WSE, JHU

2:15 – 2:30 PM
Enabling Dynamic Discovery: In Situ TEM Capabilities at MCP
Elaf Anber, WSE, JHU

2:35 – 2:50 PM
Using micro ct-scanning in functional and developmental anatomy
Siobhan Cooke, SOM, JHU

2:55 – 3:10 PM
Leveraging Rapid Characterization and Physics-Based Machine Learning to Uncover Structure–Property Relationships in Biodegradable Magnesium Alloys
Sreenivas Raguraman, WSE, JHU

3:15 – 3:30 PM
Break – Posters and Vendor Display

3:30 – 3:50 PM
Iron-ing out the Details: Microbial Transformations of Earth’s Most Abundant Element
Isabel Baker, KSAS, JHU

3:55 – 4:10 PM
Selective Cobalt and Nickel Separation via Bioacid-Mediated Electrowinning
Tianchen L. WSE. JHU

4:15 – 4:30 PM
Electron Microscopy of Structural Materials at Extremes
Mo-Rigen, WSE, JHU

4:35 – 4:50 PM
Patterning of Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks using Electron Beam Lithography
Kayley Waltz, WSE, JHU

4:55 – 5:10 PM
Advanced electron diffraction techniques for the structural characterization organic and inorganic crystals
Dan Foley, WSE, JHU

5:15 – 5:45 PM
MCP Tour (Optional)
Ken Livi, MCP

5:45 – 7:15 PM
EVENING RECEPTION/STUDENT POSTER PRESENTATION

*Agenda is subject to change. Last updated 9/15/2025.
Learn more about our speakers here.

TEM User Coffee Hour
2025-05-02 11:00 - 12:30 | Stieff Silver Building, 800 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, 21211
Join us on the first Friday of each month for TEM User Coffee Hour! Ask questions or just hang out with TEM users. We will meet in the MCP at 11am.

MCP Open House
2025-05-01 13:00 - 16:00 | Stieff Silver Building, 800 Wyman Park Drive, Baltimore, Maryland, 21211
Join the Materials Characterization and Processing facility at Johns Hopkins University for an open house on May 1st! Connect with core facility staff to discuss your materials characterization, testing, and fabrication needs. Learn how our instrumentation and services can help you achieve your research goals.
This event is open to the JHU community and researchers outside of JHU, including government collaborators and local industries. Light refreshments will be provided and parking is free!
Please register here.

MCP Seminar: Gobin Acharya
2025-04-07 | Maryland
Join the MCP on Tuesday, April 15th to welcome Gobin Acharya from Rutgers University for his talk, Atomic resolution measurements of structure and dynamics in ionic liquids using magic-angle-spinning NMR coupled with synchrotron x-ray and quasi-elastic neutron scattering spectroscopy.” His seminar will take place at 11am in the Stieff Silver Building.
Abstract: Atomic resolution measurements of structure and dynamics in ionic liquids using magic-angle-spinning NMR coupled with synchrotron x-ray and quasi-elastic neutron scattering spectroscopy
Ionic liquids (ILs) are molten salts that are liquid near room temperature, with either the anionic or/and cation species
being molecular ions that are flexible, bulk, polarizable, and frequently amphiphilic. Simple chemical synthesis of these molecular ions means that they can be combined to create tunable solvent properties that are finding applications in a wide variety of chemistry, materials science, and biotechnological applications. The physical-chemical properties which govern their useful behaviors have been studied over the years using measurements of bulk properties like viscosity and density along with structural measurements from X-ray and molecular dynamics simulations. Despite their liquid state, the high viscosities of the ionic liquids studied here require a solid-state NMR technique to yield high-resolution spectra. Using the NMR active spin ½ nuclei 1H, 19F, 31P, and 13C (all of which except 13C are present at high natural abundance), we can probe the structure and dynamic of the ions at the atomic (sub-ionic) scale. By determining NMR relaxation parameters combined with the pico-seconds to nano-seconds dynamics measurement using neutron scattering, we are able to confirm the findings of all-atom MD simulations and provide details to the structure-function S(q) described by synchrotron x-ray measurements.
Speaker Bio: Gobin Acharya
Dr. Gobin Acharya received my PhD in Physics in 2022 from Wayne State University, Michigan, working with Prof. Peter

Hoffmann. During his time at Wayne, he worked primarily in experimental soft condensed matter physics to understand nanoconfined fluids’ mechanical properties and dynamics using atomic force microscopy and neutron scattering technique. He currently works as a postdoc at Prof. Nieuwkoop’s Laboratory, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers University (RU), NJ. His research focuses primarily on studying the structure and dynamics of ionic liquids and soft materials using magic angle spinning solid-state NMR spectroscopy, neutron, and synchrotron x-ray scattering techniques. Over the past few years, he has developed and applied advanced NMR methods, neutrons and synchrotron x-ray scattering techniques to explore material properties at the atomic level.
