@article{11969, author = {Yuan Lo and Chen-Ting Liao and Jihan Zhou and Arjun Rana and Charles Bevis and Guan Gui and Bjoern Enders and Kevin Cannon and Young-Sang Yu and Richard Celestre and Kasra Nowrouzi and David Shapiro and Henry Kapteyn and Roger Falcone and Chris Bennett and Margaret Murnane and Jianwei Miao}, title = {Multimodal x-ray and electron microscopy of the Allende meteorite}, abstract = {Multimodal microscopy that combines complementary nanoscale imaging techniques is critical for extracting comprehensive chemical, structural, and functional information, particularly for heterogeneous samples. X-ray microscopy can achieve high-resolution imaging of bulk materials with chemical, magnetic, electronic, and bond orientation contrast, while electron microscopy provides atomic-scale spatial resolution with quantitative elemental composition. Here, we combine x-ray ptychography and scanning transmission x-ray spectromicroscopy with three-dimensional energy-dispersive spectroscopy and electron tomography to perform structural and chemical mapping of an Allende meteorite particle with 15-nm spatial resolution. We use textural and quantitative elemental information to infer the mineral composition and discuss potential processes that occurred before or after accretion. We anticipate that correlative x-ray and electron microscopy overcome the limitations of individual imaging modalities and open up a route to future multiscale nondestructive microscopies of complex functional materials and biological systems.}, year = {2019}, journal = {Science Advances}, volume = {5}, pages = {eaax3009}, month = {2019-09}, url = {https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/5/9/eaax3009}, doi = {10.1126/sciadv.aax3009}, }