Gault, B.; Shoji Aota, L.; Krämer, M.; Kim, S.-H.: From impurity ingress to high-performance doping: A perspective on atom probe tomography in energy materials. Scripta Materialia 262, 116648 (2025)
Sandim, M. J. R.; Nagamine, L. C. M.; Kwiatkowski da Silva, A.; Aota, L. S.; Han, L.; Cohen, R.; Zschommler Sandim, H. R.; Gault, B.; Souza Filho, I. R.: Anomalous magnetization induced by local chemistry fluctuations in Mn-containing a'-martensite. Acta Materialia 272, 119956 (2024)
Lyrio, M. S.; Shoji Aota, L.; Sandim, M. J. R.; Sandim, H. R. Z.: Additive manufacturing of Fe-3.5 wt.-%Si electrical steel via laser powder bed fusion and subsequent thermomechanical processing. Journal of Materials Science 59 (9), pp. 4019 - 4038 (2024)
Yoo, S.-H.; Aota, L. S.; Shin, S.; El-Zoka, A. A.; Kang, P. W.; Lee, Y.; Lee, H.; Kim, S.-H.; Gault, B.: Dopant Evolution in Electrocatalysts after Hydrogen Oxidation Reaction in an Alkaline Environment. ACS Energy Letters 8 (8), pp. 3381 - 3386 (2023)
Aota, L. S.; Jung, C.; Zhang, S.; Kim, S.-H.; Gault, B.: Revealing Compositional Evolution of PdAu Electrocatalyst by Atom Probe Tomography. ACS Energy Letters 8 (6), pp. 2824 - 2830 (2023)
Harada, A. T.; Zanni, E. G. S.; Aota, L. S.; Zilnyk, K. D.; Lima, M. S. F.; Abdalla, A. J.: Mechanical Properties of Laser Beam Welded Dissimilar High Strength Steels: 300M and DP 780. Materials Research-Ibero-American Journal of Materials 26 (1), e20230089 (2023)
Mota, C. F. G. S.; Aota, L. S.; Sandim, H. R. Z.; Zilnyk, K. D.; Sandim, M. J. R.: Austenite reversion in lean duplex steel: Microstructural, dilatometric and magnetic characterization. Materials Characterization 195, 112509 (2023)
Singh, M. P.; Woods, E.; Kim, S.-H.; Jung, C.; Aota, L. S.; Gault, B.: Facilitating the Systematic Nanoscale Study of Battery Materials by Atom Probe Tomography through in-situ Metal Coating. Batteries & Supercaps 7 (2), e202300403 (2023)
Aota, L. S.; Souza Filho, I. R.; Roscher, M.; Ponge, D.; Sandim, H. R. Z.: Strain hardening engineering via grain size control in laser powder-bed fusion. Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 838, 142773 (2022)
Pinto, F. C.; Aota, L. S.; Souza Filho, I. R.; Raabe, D.; Sandim, H. R. Z.: Recrystallization in non-conventional microstructures of 316L stainless steel produced via laser powder-bed fusion: effect of particle coarsening kinetics. Journal of Materials Science 57, pp. 9576 - 9598 (2022)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
This project aims to develop a testing methodology for the nano-scale samples inside an SEM using a high-speed nanomechanical low-load sensor (nano-Newton load resolution) and high-speed dark-field differential phase contrast imaging-based scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) sensor.
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In this project we developed a phase-field model capable of describing multi-component and multi-sublattice ordered phases, by directly incorporating the compound energy CALPHAD formalism based on chemical potentials. We investigated the complex compositional pathway for the formation of the η-phase in Al-Zn-Mg-Cu alloys during commercial…