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 investigate the dynamic hardness of B2-iron aluminides at high strain rates using an in situ nanomechanical tester capable of indentation up to constant strain rates of up to 100000 s−1 and study the microstructure evolution across strain rate range.
This project deals with the phase quantification by nanoindentation and electron back scattered diffraction (EBSD), as well as a detailed analysis of the micromechanical compression behaviour, to understand deformation processes within an industrial produced complex bainitic microstructure.
Within this project, we will use a green laser beam source based selective melting to fabricate full dense copper architectures. The focus will be on identifying the process parameter-microstructure-mechanical property relationships in 3-dimensional copper lattice architectures, under both quasi-static and dynamic loading conditions.
Oxides find broad applications as catalysts or in electronic components, however are generally brittle materials where dislocations are difficult to activate in the covalent rigid lattice. Here, the link between plasticity and fracture is critical for wide-scale application of functional oxide materials.