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)
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)
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.; 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)
Zhang, S.: Electron microscopy: Resolution and imaging contrast. DMG/DGK-AK9 Summer School “Advanced methods for the characterization of applied materials”, MPI für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim (Ruhr), Germany (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)
Jung, C.; Jang, K.; Zhang, S.; Bueno Villoro, R.; Choi, P.-P.; Scheu, C.: Sb-doping induced order to disorder transition enhances the thermal stability of NbCoSn1-xSbx half-Heusler semiconductors. The 20th International Microscopy Congress, PS-07.2. Microscopy of Semiconductor Materials and Devices, Busan, Republic of Korea (2023)
Zhang, S.; Yu, Y.; Jung, C.; Abdellaoui, L.; Scheu, C.: In situ TEM unveils dynamic doping behavior of thermoelectric materials – Microstructure and property evolution under heating and electric biasing. International Microscopy Conference IMC20, Busan, Korea (2023)
Zhang, S.; Kim, S.-H.; Mingers, A. M.; Gault, B.; Scheu, C.: Operando Study on the corrosion of photo-electrocatalysts. NRF-DFG meeting “Electrodes for direct sea-water splitting and microstructure based stability analyses”, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si, South Korea (2023)
Zhang, S.: Microstructure design in thermoelectric materials: in situ observation of doping behavior and role of grain boundary phases. Colloqium, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2023)
Zhang, S.: Microstructure design in thermoelectric materials: Decoupling the transport properties and in situ observation at operation conditions. Colloqium, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany (2023)
Hydrogen in aluminium can cause embrittlement and critical failure. However, the behaviour of hydrogen in aluminium was not yet understood. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung were able to locate hydrogen inside aluminium’s microstructure and designed strategies to trap the hydrogen atoms inside the microstructure. This can…
We will investigate the electrothermomechanical response of individual metallic nanowires as a function of microstructural interfaces from the growth processes. This will be accomplished using in situ SEM 4-point probe-based electrical resistivity measurements and 2-point probe-based impedance measurements, as a function of mechanical strain and…
Hydrogen induced embrittlement of metals is one of the long standing unresolved problems in Materials Science. A hierarchical multiscale approach is used to investigate the underlying atomistic mechanisms.
For understanding the underlying hydrogen embrittlement mechanism in transformation-induced plasticity steels, the process of damage evolution in a model austenite/martensite dual-phase microstructure following hydrogenation was investigated through multi-scale electron channelling contrast imaging and in situ optical microscopy.
This project will aim at developing MEMS based nanoforce sensors with capacitive sensing capabilities. The nanoforce sensors will be further incorporated with in situ SEM and TEM small scale testing systems, for allowing simultaneous visualization of the deformation process during mechanical tests
The project aims to study corrosion, a detrimental process with an enormous impact on global economy, by combining denstiy-functional theory calculations with thermodynamic concepts.
Hydrogen embrittlement affects high-strength ferrite/martensite dual-phase (DP) steels. The associated micromechanisms which lead to failure have not been fully clarified yet. Here we present a quantitative micromechanical analysis of the microstructural damage phenomena in a model DP steel in the presence of hydrogen.
Thermo-chemo-mechanical interactions due to thermally activated and/or mechanically induced processes govern the constitutive behaviour of metallic alloys during production and in service. Understanding these mechanisms and their influence on the material behaviour is of very high relevance for designing new alloys and corresponding…