Schwarz, T.; Wieland, F.; Zeller-Plumhoff, B.; Gault, B.: On the trail of Mg - Incorporation and diffusion of Mg into the bone structure during the biodegradation of a MgGd screw. 17th Biometal 2025 Symposium, Cetraro, Italy (2025)
Hsu, Y.-L.; Dumont, M.; Jang, K.; Gault, B.; Schwarz, T. M.: Understanding the structure of dinosaur enamel at a near-atomic scale. Advanced imaging techniques in biomineralisation research, Edinburgh, Scotland (2025)
Schwarz, T.; Hsu, Y.-L.; Dumont, M.; Garcia-Giner, V.; Jung, C.; Porter, A.; Gault, B.: Atom probe tomography – a new technique to understand biominerals/materials on the atomic scale. 8th BioMAT 2025 - Symposium on Biomaterials and Related Areas, Weimar, Germany (2025)
Zhou, X.; Hickel, T.; Gault, B.; Ophus, C.; Liebscher, C.; Dehm, G.; Raabe, D.: Exploring the Relationship Between Grain Boundary Structure and Chemical Composition at the Atomic Level. International Conference on Intergranular and Interphase Boundaries in Materials (IIB 2024), Beijing, China (2024)
Krämer, M.; Favelukis, B.; El-Zoka, A.; Sokol, M.; A. Rosen, B.; Eliaz, N.; Kim, S.-H.; Gault, B.: Compositional mapping of 2D MXenes at the near-atomic-scale by atom probe tomography. EUROMXENE Congress 2024, Valencia, Spain (2024)
Li, Y.; Gault, B.: Machine Learning-enabled Tomographic Imaging of Chemical Short-range Order in Fe-based Solid-solutions. DPG 2024, Berlin, Germany (2024)
Li, Y.; Gault, B.: Machine Learning-enabled Tomographic Imaging of Chemical Short-range Order in Fe-based Solid-solutions. TMS 2024, Orlando, FL, USA (2024)
Woods, E.; Aota, L. S.; Schwarz, T.; Kim, S.-H.; Douglas, J. O.; Singh, M. P.; Gault, B.: In-situ cryogenic protective layers and metal coatings in cryogenic FIB. IMC20 - 20th International Microscopy Congress - Pre-congress workshop, Cryogenic Atom Probe Tomography, Busan, South Korea (2023)
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.
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…