Mattlat, D. A.; Li, J.; Bahrami, A.; Zhang, S.; Scheu, C.: Understanding the mechanisms behind Zn-diffusion in Zn4Sb3 thermoelectric materials for long term material stability. Global Conference of Innovation materials (GCIM) 2026, Seogwipo, South Korea (2026)
Isotta, E.; Zhang, S.; Ghosh, S.; de Boor, J.; Balogun, O.; Snyder, G. J.; Scheu, C.: Thermal conductivity imaging to advance microstructure engineering in thermoelectrics. European Conference on Thermoelectrics 2025, Nancy, France (2025)
Joo, M.; Xiu, H.; Cheng, N.; Somsen, C.; Baha, S.; Ludwig, A.; Li, Y.; Kostka, A.; Scheu, C.: Investigation of planar defect evolution in Au–Pd–Pt–Ru-based compositionally complex solid solution thin films using analytical transmission electron microscopy. The 2025 Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS), Warsaw, Poland (2025)
Scheu, C.: Unlocking the Stability of Ceramics in (Photo)Electro-Chemical Application and the Role of Defects. Gordon Research Conference on Solid State Studies in Ceramics at the Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA (2024)
Zhang, S.; Yu, Y.; Jung, C.; Mattlat, D. A.; Abdellaoui, L.; Scheu, C.: In situ STEM observation of thermoelectric materials under heating and biasing conditions. The 6th joint Sino-German workshop on advanced & correlative electron microscopy of catalysts, quantum phenomena & soft matter, Bad Honnef, Germany (2024)
Scheu, C.: Insight in defects of energy materials: Aberration corrected STEM imaging coupled with 3D atom probe tomography. Colloquium Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, Germany (2024)
Zhang, S.; Yu, Y.; Jung, C.; Wang, Z.; Mattlat, D. A.; Abdellaoui, L.; Scheu, C.: In situ microstructural observation and electrical transport measurements of PbTe thermoelectrics by transmission electron microscopy. International Conference on Thermoelectrics ICT, Krakow, Poland (2024)
Scheu, C.: Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy in a Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope: A versatile tool to study bonding characteristics in materials. Atom Probe Tomography: A local probe of chemical bonds in solids?, Aachen, Germany (2024)
Scheu, C.; Zhang, S.: Hematite for light induced water splitting – improving efficiency by tuning distribution of Sn dopants at the atomic scale. The International Symposium on Advanced Coatings for Energy – ISC4E 2023, Ben Guerir, Morocco (2023)
Vega-Paredes, M.; Aymerich Armengol, R.; Scheu, C.: Determining the degradation mechanisms and active species of electrocatalysts by identical location electron microscopy. NRF-DFG meeting “Electrodes for direct sea-water splitting and microstructure based stability analyses”, Korean Institute for Energy Research, Jeju, South Korea (2023)
Zhang, S.; Kim, S.-H.; Mingers, A. M.; Gault, B.; Scheu, C.: Operando Study on the activation of hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts. NRF-DFG meeting “Electrodes for direct sea-water splitting and microstructure based stability analyses”, Korean Institute for Energy Research, Daejeon, South Korea (2023)
Max Planck scientists design a process that merges metal extraction, alloying and processing into one single, eco-friendly step. Their results are now published in the journal Nature.
Scientists of the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung pioneer new machine learning model for corrosion-resistant alloy design. Their results are now published in the journal Science Advances
Here, we aim to develop machine-learning enhanced atom probe tomography approaches to reveal chemical short/long-range order (S/LRO) in a series of metallic materials.
While Density Functional Theory (DFT) is in principle exact, the exchange functional remains unknown, which limits the accuracy of DFT simulation. Still, in addition to the accuracy of the exchange functional, the quality of material properties calculated with DFT is also restricted by the choice of finite bases sets.
A novel design with independent tip and sample heating is developed to characterize materials at high temperatures. This design is realized by modifying a displacement controlled room temperature micro straining rig with addition of two miniature hot stages.
Many important phenomena occurring in polycrystalline materials under large plastic strain, like microstructure, deformation localization and in-grain texture evolution can be predicted by high-resolution modeling of crystals. Unfortunately, the simulation mesh gets distorted during the deformation because of the heterogeneity of the plastic…
Hydrogen embrittlement is one of the most substantial issues as we strive for a greener future by transitioning to a hydrogen-based economy. The mechanisms behind material degradation caused by hydrogen embrittlement are poorly understood owing to the elusive nature of hydrogen. Therefore, in the project "In situ Hydrogen Platform for…
The Atom Probe Tomography group in the Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design department is developing integrated protocols for ultra-high vacuum cryogenic specimen transfer between platforms without exposure to atmospheric contamination.