Mattlat, D. A.; Jung, C.; Ying, P.; Li, J.; He, S.; Bahrami, A.; Zhang, S.; Scheu, C.: New method of FIB TEM sample preparation for in situ heating and biasing MEMS chip used for investigation on Zn4Sb3 thermoelectric material. Microscopy Conference (MC) 2025, Karlsruhe, Germany (2025)
Mattlat, D. A.; Bueno Villoro, R.; Jung, C.; Naderloo, R. H.; He, R.; Nielsch, K.; Zavanelli, D.; Snyder, G. J.; Zhang, S.; Scheu, C.: Electron microscopy characterization of grain boundaries in Nb1-xTixFeSb based half-Heusler thermoelectric materials. Electron Microscopy Congress (EMC) 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024)
Mattlat, D. A.; Bueno Villoro, R.; Jung, C.; Scheu, C.; Zhang, S.; Naderloo, R. H.; Nielsch, K.; He, .; Zavanelli, D.; Snyder, G. J.: Effective doping of InSbat the grain boundaries in Nb1-xTixFeSb based Half-Heusler thermoelectricsfor high electrical conductivity and Seebeckcoefficient. 40th International & 20th European Conference on Thermoelectrics, Krakow, Poland (accepted)
Bueno Villoro, R.; Zavanelli, D.; Jung, C.; Mattlat, D. A.; Naderloo, R. H.; Pérez, N. A.; Nielsch, K.; Snyder, G. J.; Scheu, C.; He, R.et al.; Zhang, S.: Grain Boundary Phases in NbFeSb Half-Heusler Alloys: A New Avenue to Tune Transport Properties of Thermoelectric Materials. Microscopy of semiconducting materials conference, Cambridge, UK (2023)
Bueno Villoro, R.; Luo, T.; Bishara, H.; Abdellaoui, L.; Gault, B.; Wood, M.; Snyder, G. J.; Scheu, C.; Zhang, S.: Effect of grain boundaries on electrical conductivity in Ti(Co,Fe)Sb half Heusler thermoelectrics. 719. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Understanding Transport Processes on the Nanoscale for Energy Harvesting Devices, online (2021)
Changizi, R.; Lim, J.; Zhang, S.; Schwarz, T.; Scheu, C.: Characterization of KCa2Nb3O10. IAMNano 2019, International Workshop on Advanced and In-situ Microscopies of Functional Nanomaterials and Devices, Düsseldorf, Germany (2019)
Changizi, R.; Zhang, S.; Schwarz, T.; Scheu, C.: Cathodoluminescence and the structural study of Lanthanide-doped oxides. Workshop on Transmission Electron Microscopy (E-MAT), Antwerp, Belgium (2019)
Changizi, R.; Zhang, S.; Schwarz, T.; Scheu, C.: Study of the chemical composition and the luminescent spectra of Lanthanide-doped oxides. E-MRS 2019 Spring Meeting, Nice, France (2019)
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…
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) of iron by marine sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) is studied electrochemically and surfaces of corroded samples have been investigated in a long-term project.
In this project we investigate the hydrogen distribution and desorption behavior in an electrochemically hydrogen-charged binary Ni-Nb model alloy. The aim is to study the role of the delta phase in hydrogen embrittlement of the Ni-base alloy 718.
Smaller is stronger” is well known in micromechanics, but the properties far from the quasi-static regime and the nominal temperatures remain unexplored. This research will bridge this gap on how materials behave under the extreme conditions of strain rate and temperature, to enhance fundamental understanding of their deformation mechanisms. The…
Biological materials in nature have a lot to teach us when in comes to creating tough bio-inspired designs. This project aims to explore the unknown impact mitigation mechanisms of the muskox head (ovibus moschatus) at several length scales and use this gained knowledge to develop a novel mesoscale (10 µm to 1000 µm) metamaterial that can mimic the…
Oxidation and corrosion of noble metals is a fundamental problem of crucial importance in the advancement of the long-term renewable energy concept strategy. In our group we use state-of-the-art electrochemical scanning flow cell (SFC) coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) setup to address the problem.
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.
We plan to investigate the rate-dependent tensile properties of 2D materials such as metal thin films and PbMoO4 (PMO) films by using a combination of a novel plan-view FIB based sample lift out method and a MEMS based in situ tensile testing platform inside a TEM.