Michael Treacy graduated from Cambridge University in 1976 with a bachelor's in natural sciences, and, in 1979, graduated from the Cavendish Laboratory, Cambridge, with a doctorate in physics. His doctoral topic was in electron microscopy, with emphasis on scanning transmission electron microscopy as a tool for studying heterogeneous catalysts. After postdoctoral positions at IBM Yorktown Heights, and the CNET in Paris, France, he worked at Exxon Research and Engineering Company in Annandale, New Jersey, where he studied heterogeneous catalysts and zeolitic materials. He won both the Barrer and the Breck Awards for his zeolite work conducted at Exxon.
In 1990, he joined the NEC Research Institute in Princeton where he worked on electron microscopy studies of carbon nanotubes, amorphous materials, in-situ studies of switching in ferroelectrics, enumeration of hypothetical zeolite structures, and nanophotonic systems. In 2003, he moved to Arizona State University. His two main research interests are; modeling hypothetical zeolite frameworks; the study of disordered materials by Fluctuation Microscopy, a technique he co-invented with Murray Gibson while at NEC.
(118) E. Verheyen, L. Joos, C. Martineau, C. J. Dawson, C. Weidenthaler, W. Schmidt, R. Yuan, E. Breynaert, V. Van Speybroeck, M. Waroquier, F. Taulelle, M. M. J. Treacy, J. A. Martens and C. E. A. Kirschhock. Reversible transformation of flexible periodically interrupted -COK-14 to rigid fully connected OKO zeolite. Materials Horizons (2014).
C. J. Dawson, R. Sanchez-Smith, P. Rez, M. O’Keeffe and M. M. J. Treacy. Ab initio calculations of the energy dependence of Si-O-Si angles in silica and Ge-O-Ge angles in germania crystalline systems. Chemistry of Materials (2014).
M. M. J. Treacy, C. J. Dawson, V. Kapko, I. Rivin. Flexibility Mechanisms in Ideal Zeolite Frameworks,. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A (2014).
T. Sun, F. A. M. Koeck, A. Rezikyan, M. M. J. Treacy and R. J. Nemanich. Thermally enhanced photoinduced electron emission from nitrogen-doped diamond films on silicon substrates. Physical Review B (2014).
C. J. Dawson, M. Pope, M. O’Keeffe and M. M. J. Treacy. Double-layer silicas (DLSs) and arbitrarily low-density, low-energy DLS zeolite families. Calculated structures, energies and stabilities. Chemistry of Materials (2013).
P. Rez & M. M. J. Treacy. Three-dimensional imaging of dislocations. Nature (2013).
C. Dawson, V. Kapko, M. F. Thorpe, M. D. Foster and M. M.J. Treacy. Flexibility as an Indicator of Feasibility of Zeolite Frameworks. J. Phys. Chem (2012).
M. M. J. Treacy and D. Van Dyck. A Surprise in the First Born Approximation for Electron Scattering. Ultramicroscopy (2012).
M. M. J. Treacy and K. B. Borisenko. Response to Comment on "The Local Structure of Amorphous Silicon". Science (2012).
M. M. J. Treacy and K. B. Borisenko. The Local Structure of Amorphous Silicon. Science (2012).
M. M. J. Treacy. Speckles in Images and Diffraction Patterns. Handbook of Nanoscopy (2012).
D. Kumar and M. M. J. Treacy. Interferometric scanning microscopy for the study of disordered materials. Appl. Phys. Letts (2011).
K. B. Borisenko, B. Haberl, Amelia C.Y. Liu, Y. Chen, G. Li, J. S. Williams, J. E. Bradby, D. J.H. Cockayne, M. M. J. Treacy. Medium-range order in amorphous silicon investigated by constrained structural relaxation of two-body and four-body electron diffraction data. Acta Materiala (2011).
M. M. J. Treacy. Z Dependence of Electron Scattering by Single Atoms into Annular Dark-Field Detectors. Microscopy and Microanalysis (2011).
V. Kapko, I. Rivin, C. Dawson and M. M. J. Treacy. Density of mechanisms within the flexibility window of zeolites. Phys. Rev. Letts (2011).
G. Zhao, M. M. J. Treacy and P. R. Buseck. Fluctuation Electron Microscopy of Medium-Range Order in Ion-irradiated Zircon. Philosophical Magazine (2010).
J. M. Gibson, M. M. J. Treacy, T. Sun and N. J. Zaluzec. Substantial crystalline topology in amorphous silicon. Physical Review Letters (2010).
M. O’Keeffe and M. M. J. Treacy. Dense quasicrystalline tilings by squares and equilateral triangles. Acta Cryst (2010).
V. Kapko, C. Dawson, M. M. J. Treacy and M. F. Thorpe. Flexibility of Ideal Zeolite Frameworks. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics (2010).
A. Gamalski, E. S. Moore, M. M. J. Treacy, R. Sharma and P. Rez. Diffusion-Gradient-Induced Length Instabilities in the Catalytic Growth of Carbon Nanotubes. Applied Physics Letters (2009).
G. Zhao and P. R. Buseck, A. Rougée and M. M. J. Treacy. Medium-range order in molecular materials: Fluctuation electron microscopy for detecting fullerenes in disordered carbons. Ultramicroscopy (2009).
M. M. J. Treacy and M. D. Foster. Packing Sticky Hard Spheres into Rigid Zeolite Frameworks. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (2009).
R. Sharma, E. Moore, P. Rez and M. M. J. Treacy. Site-Specific Fabrication of Fe Particles for Carbon Nanotube Growth. Nano Letters (2009).
V. Kapko, M. M. J. Treacy, M. F. Thorpe and S. D. Guest. On the Collapse of Locally Isostatic Networks. Proceedings of the Royal Society A (2009).
J. M. Gibson and M. M. J. Treacy. Defocus as an ineffective means of changing spot size for fluctuation microscopy. Journal of Physics / Institute of Physics (2009).
J. M. Gibson and M. M. J. Treacy. Beam transit effects in single molecule coherent diffraction. Phys. Rev B (2008).
M. M. J. Treacy, D. Kumar, A. Rougée, G. Zhao, P. R. Buseck, I. McNulty, L. Fan, C. Rau and J. M. Gibson. Glimpsing order within the disarray. J. Phys.: Conf. Ser. 126 (2008).
M. M. J. Treacy, M. D. Foster and I. Rivin. Towards a catalog of designer zeolites. Turning Points in Solid State, Materials and Surface Science (2008).
L Fan, D Paterson, I McNulty, Michael Treacy, J. Gibson. Fluctuation X-ray Microscopy: A Novel Approach for the Structural Study of Disordered Materials. J. Microsc (2007).
M. M. J. Treacy, D. Kumar, A. Rougée, G. Zhao, P. R. Buseck, I. McNulty, L. Fan, C. Rau and J. M. Gibson. Probing medium-range structural correlations by fluctuation microscopy. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter (2007).
Michael Treacy. When structural noise is the signal: Speckle statistics in fluctuation electron microscopy. Ultramicroscopy (2007).
R Sharma1, P Rez, M Brown, G Du1, Michael Treacy. Dynamic observations of the effect of pressure and temperature conditions on the selective synthesis of carbon nanotubes. Nanotechnology (2007).
Treacy, Michael Matthew John, Higgins, J B. Collection of Simulated XRD Powder Patterns for Zeolites. (2007).
Treacy, Michael Matthew John,Foster, M D.,Rivin, I. . Turning Points in Solid State, Materials and Surface Science (2007).
A Bodapati, Michael Treacy, M Falk, J Kieffer, P Keblinski. Medium range order and the radial distribution function. J. Non-Cryst. Solids (2006).
A Sartbaeva, S Wells, Michael Treacy, Michael Thorpe. The flexibility window in zeolites. Nature Materials (2006).
M Foster, I Rivin, Michael Treacy, O Friedrichs. A geometric solution to the Largest-Free-Sphere problem in zeolite frameworks. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (2006).
Michael Treacy, M Foster, K Randall. An Efficient Method for Determining Zeolite Vertex Symbols. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (2006).
R Sharma, P Rez, Michael Treacy. Direct Observations of the Growth of Carbon Nanotubes using in situ Transmission Electron Microscopy. e-Journal of Surface and Nanotechnology (2006).
S Wells, M Foster, Michael Treacy. A Simple Geometric Structure Optimizer for Accelerated Detection of Infeasible Zeolite Graphs. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (2006).
Sharma, R, Crozier, P A, Treacy, Michael Matthew John. Dynamic in-situ electron microscopy as a tool to meet the challenges of the nanoworld. (2006).
Fan, L, Paterson, D, McNulty, I, Treacy, Michael, Kumar, D, Du, P, Wiesner, U, Gibson, J. Characterization of medium-range order in organic-inorganic hybrid nanomaterials by fluctuation x-ray microscopy. (2006).
Treacy, Michael, Brown, M, Rez, P, Du, G, Sharma, R. In-Situ TEM Observations of Carbon Nanotube Growth By The Catalytic Decomposition of Acetylene. (2006).
Treacy, Michael, Rougee, A, Buseck, P. Fluctuation Electron Microscopy of Shungite, a Disordered Natural Carbonaceous Material. (2006).
L Fan, I McNulty, D Paterson, Michael Treacy, J Gibson. Fluctuation microscopy - a tool for examining medium-range order in non-crystalline systems. Nuclear. Inst. Method B (2005).
L Fan, I McNulty, D Paterson, Michael Treacy, J Gibson. Fluctuation X-ray Microscopy for Measuring Medium-Range Order. Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc (2005).
M Foster, Michael Treacy, J Higgins, I Rivin, E Balkovsky, K Randall. A Systematic Topological Search for the Framework of ZSM-10. Journal of Applied Crystallography (2005).
M Foster, Michael Treacy, J Higgins, I Rivin, E Balkovsky, K Randall. Crystal Structure Solution by a Systematic Topological Search: The Framework Topology of Zeolite ZSM-10. J. Appl. Cryst (2005).
Michael Treacy. What is Fluctuation Microscopy?. Microscopy Today (2005).
Michael Treacy, J Gibson, L Fan, D Paterson, I McNulty. Fluctuation Microscopy; A Probe of Medium Range Order. Rep. Prog. Phys (2005).
O Friedrichs, M Foster, M O'Keeffe, D Proserpio, Michael Treacy, O Yaghi. What do we know about three-periodic nets?. J. Solid State Chemistry (2005).
R Sharma, P Rez, Michael Treacy, S Stuart. In situ observation of the growth mechanisms of carbon nanotubes under diverse reaction conditions. J. Electron Microsc (2005).
Fan, L, McNulty, I, Paterson, D, Treacy, Michael, Gibson, J. Fluctuation X-ray Microscopy for Measuring Medium-Range Order. (2005).
Fang, L, McNulty, I, Paterson, D, Treacy, Michael, Gibson, J. Fluctuation X-Ray Microscopy. (2005).
Sharma, R, Rez, P, Treacy, Michael. In situ observations of the effect of synthesis conditions on the growth rates and mechanisms of carbon nanotubes. (2005).
Treacy, Michael. Fluctuation Microscopy for the MASses. (2005).
Treacy, Michael, Gibson, J, Fan, L, Paterson, D, McNulty, I. Fluctuation Microscopy; A Probe of Medium Range Order. (2005).
J-Y Cheng, Michael Treacy, P Keblinski, J Gibson. Diffraction microscopy for disordered tetrahedral networks. J. Appl. Physics (2004).
Michael Treacy, I Rivin, E Balkovsky, K Randall, M Foster. Enumeration of Periodic Tetrahedral Frameworks. II. Polynodal Graphs. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (2004).
Cheng, J-Y, Treacy, Michael, Keblinski, P. Metamict Transformation of Silica. (2004).
Foster, M, Treacy, Michael, Higgins, J, Rivin, I, Balkovsky, E, Randall, K. Enumeration. (2004).
J Gerbi, P Voyles, Michael Treacy, J Gibson, J Abelson. Increasing medium-range order in amorphous silicon with low-energy ion bombardment. Appl. Phys. Letts (2003).
Michael Treacy. Describing ordered microporous and mesoporous materials. J. Microporous and Mesoporous Materials (2003).
R Dash, P voyles, J Gibson, Michael Treacy, P Keblinski. A quantitative measure of medium range order in amorphous materials from transmission electron micrographs. J. Phys.: Condens. Matter (2003).
Cheng, J, Treacy, Michael, Keblinski, P. Metamict Transformation of Silica,in Amorphous and Nanocrystalline Silicon-Based Films - 2003, Ed. By John R. Abelson, Gautam Ganguly, Hideki Matsumura, John Robertson. (2003).
Treacy, Michael, Gibson, J. Fluctuation microscopy: A technique for revealing atomic correlations in structurally noisy (disordered) materials. (2003).
A Krishnan, Michael Treacy, M Bisher, P Chandra, P Littlewood. Efficient Switching and Domain Interlocking Observed in Polyaxial Ferroelectrics. Integrated Ferroelectrics (2002).
J Higgins, A Krishnan, Michael Treacy, S Bhattacharya. Depoling a ferroelectric capacitor. J. Appl. Physics (2002).
Michael Treacy. A dynamical diffraction explanation of the anomalous transmission of light through metallic hole arrays. Phys. Rev. B (2002).
P Keblinski, M Bazant, R Dash, Michael Treacy. Thermodynamic behavior of a model covalent material described by the environment-dependent interatomic potential. Phys. Rev. B (2002).
M Voyles, J Gerbi, Michael Treacy, J Gibson, J Abelson. Increased Medium-Range Order in Amorphous Silicon with Increased Substrate Temperature. J. Non-Cryst. Solids (2001).
P Voyles, J Gerbi, Michael Treacy, J Gibson, J Abelson. Absence of an Abrupt Phase Change from Polycrystalline to Amorphous in Silicon with Deposition Temperature. Phys. Rev. Lett (2001).
P Voyles, N Zotov, S Nahkmanson, D Drabold, J Gibson, Michael Treacy, P Keblinski. The Structure and Physical Properties of Paracrystalline Atomistic Models of Amorphous Silicon. J. Appl. Phys (2001).
Treacy, Michael Matthew John, Higgins, J B. Collection of Simulated XRD Powder Patterns For Zeolites. (2001).
Treacy, Michael, Kilian, J. Designability of Graphitic Cones. (2001).
Treacy, Michael, Voyles, P, Gibson, J. Topological Signatures of Medium Range Order in Amorphous Semiconductor Models,in Amorphous and Heterogeneous Silicon Thin Films 2000. (2001).
Voyles, P, Treacy, Michael, Gibson, J. Thermodynamics of Paracrystalline Silicon,in New Methods, Mechanisms and Models of Vapor Deposition. Barker, Materials Research Society (2001).
Voyles, P, Treacy, Michael, Gibson, J, Jin, H, Abelson, J. Experimental Methods and Data Analysis for Fluctuation Microscopy,in Amorphous and Heterogeneous Silicon Thin Films 2000. (2001).
Voyles, P, Treacy, Michael, Jin, H, Abelson, J, Gibson, J, Guha, S, Crandall, R. Comparative Fluctuation Microscopy Study of Medium-Range Order in Hydrogenated Amorphous Silicon Deposited by Various Methods,in Amorphous and Heterogeneous Silicon Thin Films 2000. (2001).
G Xu, Michael Treacy, M Bisher, C Broholm, J DiHusa, C Frost, T Ito, K Oka, R Paul, H Takagiand. Holes in a quantum spin liquid. Science (2000).
M Gibson, Michael Treacy, P Voyles. Atom Pair Persistence in Disordered Materials from Fluctuation Microscopy. Ultramicroscopy (2000).
Michael Treacy, A Krishnan, P Yianilos. Inferring Physical Parameters from Images of Vibrating Carbon Nanotubes. Microsc. Microanal (2000).
Michael Treacy, P Voyles, J Gibson. Schläfli Cluster Topological Analysis of Medium Range Order in Paracrystalline Amorphous Semiconductor Models. J. Non-Cryst. Solids (2000).
P Voyles, J Gibson, Michael Treacy. Fluctuation Microscopy: A Probe of Atomic Correlations in Disordered Materials. J. Electron Microsc (2000).
. . Review of: Structures and Structure Determination (2000).
Krishnan, A, Treacy, Michael, Bisher, M, Chandra, P, Littlewood, P. Displacement Charge Patterns and Ferroelectric Domain Wall Dynamics Studied by In-Situ TEM,in Ferroelectric Thin Films VIII. (2000).
Krishnan, A, Treacy, Michael, Bisher, M, Chandra, P, Littlewood, P. Maxwellian Charge on Domain Walls, in Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics 2000: Aspen Center for Physics Winter Workshop. (2000).
Krishnan, A, Treacy, Michael, Bisher, M, Chandra, P, Littlewood, P. Maxwellian Charge on Ferroelectric Domain Walls in KNbO3. Microscopy Society of America, Springer (2000).
Treacy, Michael. Deactivation of Pt/Zeolite-L Catalysts Studied by Z-Contrast. Microscopy Society of America, Springer (2000).
Treacy,Michael Matthew John*. Structural studies of amorphous materials by fluctuation electron microscopy. DOE-CHICAGO(7/1/2010 - 6/30/2016).
Treacy,Michael Matthew John*. Collaborative Research: CDI-type I: Discovery and Design of new microporous zeolites. NSF-MPS(10/1/2008 - 6/30/2013).
Treacy,Michael Matthew John*. Zeolite Structure Prediction and the identification of useful synthetic targets. ACS-PETROLEUM RESEARCH FUND(9/1/2007 - 8/31/2010).
Sharma,Renu*, Rez,Peter, Treacy,Michael Matthew John. Dynamic Observation of Carbon Nanotube Growth on Isolated Catalyst Nanoparticles. NSF-ENG(9/1/2006 - 8/31/2010).
Sharma,Renu*, Rez,Peter, Treacy,Michael Matthew John. NER: Controlled Synthesis of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Desired Properties. NSF-ENG(7/1/2005 - 12/31/2006).
Treacy,Michael Matthew John*. Fluctuation X-Ray/Optical Microscopy Studies. ARGONNE NATL LABORATORY(4/19/2004 - 5/31/2009).
M. M. J. Treacy. Designer Zeolites. Colloquium, ETH Zurich, Dept of Crystallography (Dec 2009).
M. M. J. Treacy. Fluctuation Electron Microscopy. Dept of Materials, University of Vienna (Dec 2009).
M. M. J. Treacy. Designer Zeolites. Colloquium, University of Southampton (Dec 2009).
M. M. J. Treacy. Designer Zeolites. Colloquium in Oxford Dept of Materials (Nov 2009).
M. M. J. Treacy. Designer Zeolites. Colloquium Dept of Materials Cambridge University (Nov 2009).
M. M. J. Treacy. What spatially resolved electron diffraction tells us about amorphous materials. Symposium in Honour of David Cockayne's Retirement (Sep 2009).
Treacy, Michael. Fluctuation Microscopy. Physics Graduate Colloquium (Mar 2007).
Treacy, Michael. Weeding and Harvesting Zeolite frameworks. Global Optimization of structures (Jul 2006).
Treacy, Michael. Fluctuation X-Ray Microscopy. APS User's Meeting (May 2006).
Treacy, Michael. The search for useful hypothetical zeolite frameworks. NIRT meeting (ASU Biophysics) (Apr 2006).
Treacy, Michael. Fluctuation Microscopy for the Masses. Microscopy Society of America (Aug 2005).
Treacy, Michael. A sharper view of Randomness? What aberration-corrected imaging of amorphous materials can reveal. Microscopy Society of America (Aug 2004).
Treacy, Michael. Extracting the "signal" from structurally noisy materials. NIRT Workshop "Structure of Nanocrystals"
1982–1984: Exxon Chemical Company, (Linden New Jersey/ Annandale New Jersey); Physicist.
1984–1990: Exxon Research & Engineering Company, Corporate Research, (Annandale New Jersey); Senior Physicist.
1990 – 2002: NEC Research Institute, Inc., (Princeton New Jersey); Senior Research Scientist.