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)
Ro, I. -.; Lee, C.-G.; Aota, L. S.; Choi, W.; Won, S.; Ahn, J.-P.; Kim, H.-R.; Choi, G.; Gault, B.; Kim, S.-H.: Influence of chemical composition and microstructure on fatigue performance of reinforcing steel. Journal of Materials Research and Technology 36, pp. 2589 - 2599 (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)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
In this project, the effects of scratch-induced deformation on the hydrogen embrittlement susceptibility in pearlite is investigated by in-situ nanoscratch test during hydrogen charging, and atomic scale characterization. This project aims at revealing the interaction mechanism between hydrogen and scratch-induced deformation in pearlite.
Efficient harvesting of sunlight and (photo-)electrochemical conversion into solar fuels is an emerging energy technology with enormous promise. Such emerging technologies depend critically on materials systems, in which the integration of dissimilar components and the internal interfaces that arise between them determine the functionality.
In collaboration with Dr. Edgar Rauch, SIMAP laboratory, Grenoble, and Dr. Wolfgang Ludwig, MATEIS, INSA Lyon, we are developing a correlative scanning precession electron diffraction and atom probe tomography method to access the three-dimensional (3D) crystallographic character and compositional information of nanomaterials with unprecedented…