Zhao, Y.; Rajkowski, M.; Gong, Y.; Laube, S.; Perrière, L.; Kauffmann, A.; Couzinié, J.-P.; Laplanche, G.; Li, T.: Role of Oxygen in Phase Stability and Mechanical Behavior of the bcc HfNbTaTiZr High-Entropy Alloy During Aging. TMS 2026 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego, CA, USA (2026)
Zhao, Y.; Zaefferer, S.; Joshi, Y.; Raabe, D.: Understanding of hydrogenation induced defects in a proton-based battery material. DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, Dresden, Germany (2026)
Zhao, Y.; Fantin, A.; Li, Y.; Li, T.; Gong, Y.: Quantifying chemical short-range order and local lattice distortion in Ti–Zr–Nb alloys. DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, Dresden, Germany (2026)
Woods, E.; Schwarz, T. M.; Zhao, Y.; Gault, B.: Crystalline amino acid mass spectral fragmentation in different forms and under different conditions using atom probe tomography. European Atom Probe Tomography Workshop, Marseille, France (2025)
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.