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)
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The structures of grain boundaries (GBs) have been investigated in great detail. However, much less is known about their chemical features, owing to the experimental difficulties to probe these features at the near-atomic scale inside bulk material specimens. Atom probe tomography (APT) is a tool capable of accomplishing this task, with an ability…
Hydrogen embrittlement is one of the most substantial issues as we strive for a greener future by transitioning to a hydrogen-based economy. The mechanisms behind material degradation caused by hydrogen embrittlement are poorly understood owing to the elusive nature of hydrogen. Therefore, in the project "In situ Hydrogen Platform for…
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The computational materials design department in collaboration with the Technical University Darmstadt and the Ruhr University Bochum developed a workflow to calculate phase diagrams from ab-initio. This achievement is based on the expertise in the ab-initio thermodynamics in combination with the recent advancements in machine-learned interatomic…
The structure of grain boundaries (GBs) is dependent on the crystallographic structure of the material, orientation of the neighbouring grains, composition of material and temperature. The abovementioned conditions set a specific structure of the GB which dictates several properties of the materials, e.g. mechanical behaviour, diffusion, and…