Mattlat, D. A.; Li, J.; Bahrami, A.; Zhang, S.; Scheu, C.: Understanding the mechanisms behind Zn-diffusion in Zn4Sb3 thermoelectric materials for long term material stability. Global Conference of Innovation materials (GCIM) 2026, Seogwipo, South Korea (2026)
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)
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)
International research team shows how hydrogen affects Nickel-base superalloys at elevated temperatures. Latest results published in journal Nature Materials.
Water electrolysis has the potential to become the major technology for the production of the high amount of green hydrogen that is necessary for its widespread application in a decarbonized economy. The bottleneck of this electrochemical reaction is the anodic partial reaction, the oxygen evolution reaction (OER), which is sluggish and hence…
This project targets to exploit or develop new methodologies to not only visualize the 3D morphology but also measure chemical distribution of as-synthesized nanostructures using atom probe tomography.
The mission of our group is to uncover the fundamental mechanisms of deformation and degradation in battery systems and to leverage mechanical principles to design damage-resilient energy storage systems.
Here the focus lies on investigating the temperature dependent deformation of material interfaces down to the individual microstructural length-scales, such as grain/phase boundaries or hetero-interfaces, to understand brittle-ductile transitions in deformation and the role of chemistry or crystallography on it.
The group aims at unraveling the inner workings of ion batteries, with a focus on probing the microstructural and interfacial character of electrodes and electrolytes that control ionic transport and insertion into the electrode.