Zhang, S.; Yu, Y.; Jung, C.; Mattlat, D. A.; Abdellaoui, L.; Scheu, C.: In situ STEM observation of thermoelectric materials under heating and biasing conditions. The 6th joint Sino-German workshop on advanced & correlative electron microscopy of catalysts, quantum phenomena & soft matter, Bad Honnef, Germany (2024)
Zhang, S.; Yu, Y.; Jung, C.; Wang, Z.; Mattlat, D. A.; Abdellaoui, L.; Scheu, C.: In situ microstructural observation and electrical transport measurements of PbTe thermoelectrics by transmission electron microscopy. International Conference on Thermoelectrics ICT, Krakow, Poland (2024)
Scheu, C.; Zhang, S.: Hematite for light induced water splitting – improving efficiency by tuning distribution of Sn dopants at the atomic scale. The International Symposium on Advanced Coatings for Energy – ISC4E 2023, Ben Guerir, Morocco (2023)
Zhang, S.: Electron microscopy: Resolution and imaging contrast. DMG/DGK-AK9 Summer School “Advanced methods for the characterization of applied materials”, MPI für Kohlenforschung, Mülheim (Ruhr), Germany (2023)
Zhang, S.; Kim, S.-H.; Mingers, A. M.; Gault, B.; Scheu, C.: Operando Study on the activation of hydrogen evolution electrocatalysts. NRF-DFG meeting “Electrodes for direct sea-water splitting and microstructure based stability analyses”, Korean Institute for Energy Research, Daejeon, South Korea (2023)
Jung, C.; Jang, K.; Zhang, S.; Bueno Villoro, R.; Choi, P.-P.; Scheu, C.: Sb-doping induced order to disorder transition enhances the thermal stability of NbCoSn1-xSbx half-Heusler semiconductors. The 20th International Microscopy Congress, PS-07.2. Microscopy of Semiconductor Materials and Devices, Busan, Republic of Korea (2023)
Zhang, S.; Yu, Y.; Jung, C.; Abdellaoui, L.; Scheu, C.: In situ TEM unveils dynamic doping behavior of thermoelectric materials – Microstructure and property evolution under heating and electric biasing. International Microscopy Conference IMC20, Busan, Korea (2023)
Zhang, S.; Kim, S.-H.; Mingers, A. M.; Gault, B.; Scheu, C.: Operando Study on the corrosion of photo-electrocatalysts. NRF-DFG meeting “Electrodes for direct sea-water splitting and microstructure based stability analyses”, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si, South Korea (2023)
Zhang, S.: Microstructure design in thermoelectric materials: in situ observation of doping behavior and role of grain boundary phases. Colloqium, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2023)
Zhang, S.: Microstructure design in thermoelectric materials: Decoupling the transport properties and in situ observation at operation conditions. Colloqium, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany (2023)
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