Nina Balke
Director, Analytical Instrumentation Facility
Associate Professor, Materials Science & Engineering
Engineering Building I (EB1), Room 3074C
Bio
Dr. Balke is an Associate Professor in the Materials Science and Engineering Department and the Director of the Analytical Instrumentation Facility. She received her MS and PhD in Materials Sciences from the Technical University of Darmstadt in Germany.
Dr. Balke’s research focuses on utilizing state-of-the-art atomic force microscopy to understand and discover new nanoscale materials functionality driven by electric fields and potentials for information and energy technology. This encompasses electromechanical, mechanical, and transport phenomena in inorganic materials and across fluid-solid interfaces.
Publications
- (Invited) Probing Local Ion Insertion through Operando AFM , ECS Meeting Abstracts (2024)
- Aluminum/SmCo5 composites for structural and magnetic applications , JOURNAL OF MATERIALS SCIENCE (2024)
- Current understanding of electrochemical strain microscopy to visualize ion behavior on the nanoscale , CURRENT OPINION IN ELECTROCHEMISTRY (2024)
- Effect of Electrode/Electrolyte Coupling on Birnessite (delta-MnO2) Mechanical Response and Degradation , ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES (2023)
- Effects of thin metal contacts on few-layer van der Waals ferrielectric CuInP2S6 , JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS (2022)
- Ionic Control over Ferroelectricity in 2D Layered van der Waals Capacitors , ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES (2022)
- Nanoscale Control of Polar Surface Phases in Layered van der Waals CuInP2S6 , ACS NANO (2022)
- Probing Local Ion Insertion through Strain-Current Correlation , ECS Meeting Abstracts (2022)
- Progress on Emerging Ferroelectric Materials for Energy Harvesting, Storage and Conversion , ADVANCED ENERGY MATERIALS (2022)
- Effects of interlayer confinement and hydration on capacitive charge storage in birnessite , NATURE MATERIALS (2021)