Li, Y.; Choi, P.-P.; Goto, S.; Borchers, C.; Raabe, D.; Kirchheim, R.: Atomic scale investigation of redistribution of alloying elements in pearlitic steel wires upon cold-drawing and annealing. Ultramicroscopy 132, pp. 233 - 238 (2013)
Chen, Y. Z.; Herz, A.; Li, Y. J.; Borchers, C.; Choi, P.; Raabe, D.; Kirchheim, R.: Nanocrystalline Fe–C alloys produced by ball milling of iron and graphite. Acta Materialia 61 (9), pp. 3172 - 3185 (2013)
Peranio, N.; Li, Y. J.; Roters, F.; Raabe, D.: Microstructure and texture evolution in dual-phase steels: Competition between recovery, recrystallization, and phase transformation. Materials Science and Engineering A 527 (16-17), pp. 4161 - 4168 (2010)
Blum, W.; Li, Y. J.; Durst, K.: Stability of ultrafine-grained Cu to subgrain coarsening and recrystallization in annealing and deformation at elevated temperatures. Acta Materialia 57, pp. 5207 - 5217 (2009)
Peng, Z.; Gault, B.; Raabe, D.; Ashton, M. W.; Sinnott, S. B.; Choi, P.-P.; Li, Y.: On the Multiple Event Detection in Atom Probe Tomography. In: MicroscopyMicroanalysis, Vol. 23, pp. 618 - 619. Microscopy & Microanalysis 2017, St. Louis, MO, USA, August 06, 2017 - August 10, 2017. (2017)
Joo, M.; Xiu, H.; Cheng, N.; Somsen, C.; Baha, S.; Ludwig, A.; Li, Y.; Kostka, A.; Scheu, C.: Investigation of planar defect evolution in Au–Pd–Pt–Ru-based compositionally complex solid solution thin films using analytical transmission electron microscopy. The 2025 Fall Meeting of the European Materials Research Society (E-MRS), Warsaw, Poland (2025)
Morsdorf, L.; Mayweg, D.; Li, Y.; Diederichs, A.; Raabe, D.; Herbig, M.: Moving cracks and missing C atoms – chasing the mysteries of white etching areas in bearings. 2nd meeting of "Metallurgical Metallurgy for Plasticity-driven Damage and Fracture" research forum 2021 (ISIJ), virtual (2021)
Herbig, M.; Parra, C.D.; Lu, W.; Toji, Y.; Liebscher, C.; Li, Y.; Goto, S.; Dehm, G.; Raabe, D.: Where does the carbon atom go in steel? – Insights gained by correlative transmission electron microscopy and atom probe tomography. International Symposium on Steel Science 2017, Kyoto, Japan (2017)
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.
The full potential of energy materials can only be exploited if the interplay between mechanics and chemistry at the interfaces is well known. This leads to more sustainable and efficient energy solutions.
In order to develop more efficient catalysts for energy conversion, the relationship between the surface composition of MXene-based electrode materials and its behavior has to be understood in operando. Our group will demonstrate how APT combined with scanning photoemission electron microscopy can advance the understanding of complex relationships…
To advance the understanding of how degradation proceeds, we use the latest developments in cryo-atom probe tomography, supported by transmission-electron microscopy. The results showcase how advances in microscopy & microanalysis help bring novel insights into the ever-evolving microstructures of active materials to support the design of better…