Isotta, E.: Investigating microstructure via thermal conductivity imaging: from grain boundaries, to phase segregations and material anisotropy. 50th International Conference and Expo on Advanced Ceramics and Composites (ICACC 2026), Daytona Beach, FL, USA (2026)
Isotta, E.: Investigating microstructure via thermal conductivity imaging: from grain boundaries, to material anisotropy, and phase segregations. Invited Seminar at RWTH Aachen, Physics Department, Aachen, Germany (2025)
Isotta, E.: Thermal conductivity imaging to advance microstructure engineering in thermoelectric and energy materials. Materials Science and Technology Meeting (MSandT) 2025, Columbus, OH, USA (2025)
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)
Isotta, E.: Thermal conductivity imaging to guide microstructure engineering in energy materials. Invited Seminar at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany (2025)
Isotta, E.: Thermal conductivity imaging to guide microstructure engineering in energy materials. Invited Seminar at the German Aerospace Center in Cologne, Köln, Germany (2025)
Isotta, E.: Thermal conductivity imaging to guide microstructure engineering in energy materials. Iberian Workshop on Thermoelectrics 2025, Castello de la Plana, Spain (2025)
Isotta, E.: Local thermal conductivity imaging and modelling to guide microstructure engineering in energy materials. TMS 2025 Annual Meeting, Las Vegas, NV, USA (2025)
Isotta, E.: Thermal conductivity imaging to guide microstructure engineering in energy materials. Invited Seminar at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria (2024)
Busch, F.; Balogun, O.; Snyder, G. J.; Scheu, C.; Isotta, E.: Unravelling grain boundary influences on electronic and lattice thermal conductivity in Mn-doped SnTe thermoelectrics. 21st European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT) 2025, Nancy, Frankreich (2025)
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
A high degree of configurational entropy is a key underlying assumption of many high entropy alloys (HEAs). However, for the vast majority of HEAs very little is known about the degree of short-range chemical order as well as potential decomposition. Recent studies for some prototypical face-centered cubic (fcc) HEAs such as CrCoNi showed that…
Electron channelling contrast imaging (ECCI) is a powerful technique for observation of extended crystal lattice defects (e.g. dislocations, stacking faults) with almost transmission electron microscopy (TEM) like appearance but on bulk samples in the scanning electron microscope (SEM).
About 90% of all mechanical service failures are caused by fatigue. Avoiding fatigue failure requires addressing the wide knowledge gap regarding the micromechanical processes governing damage under cyclic loading, which may be fundamentally different from that under static loading. This is particularly true for deformation-induced martensitic…
Here the focus lies on investigating the temperature dependent deformation of material interfaces down to the individual microstructural length-scales, such as grain/phase boundaries or hetero-interfaces, to understand brittle-ductile transitions in deformation and the role of chemistry or crystallography on it.
We simulate the ionization contrast in field ion microscopy arising from the electronic structure of the imaged surface. For this DFT calculations of the electrified surface are combined with the Tersoff-Hamann approximation to electron tunneling. The approach allows to explain the chemical contrast observed for NiRe alloys.
Decarbonisation of the steel production to a hydrogen-based metallurgy is one of the key steps towards a sustainable economy. While still at the beginning of this transformation process, with multiple possible processing routes on different technological readiness, we conduct research into the related fundamental scientific questions at the MPIE.