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)
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)
Scheu, C.: Unlocking the Stability of Ceramics in (Photo)Electro-Chemical Application and the Role of Defects. Gordon Research Conference on Solid State Studies in Ceramics at the Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA, USA (2024)
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)
Scheu, C.: Insight in defects of energy materials: Aberration corrected STEM imaging coupled with 3D atom probe tomography. Colloquium Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München, 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.: Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy in a Scanning Transmission Electron Microscope: A versatile tool to study bonding characteristics in materials. Atom Probe Tomography: A local probe of chemical bonds in solids?, Aachen, Germany (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)
Vega-Paredes, M.; Aymerich Armengol, R.; Scheu, C.: Determining the degradation mechanisms and active species of electrocatalysts by identical location electron microscopy. NRF-DFG meeting “Electrodes for direct sea-water splitting and microstructure based stability analyses”, Korean Institute for Energy Research, Jeju, South Korea (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)
If manganese nodules can be mined in an environmentally friendly way, the critical metals needed for the energy transition could be produced with low CO2 emissions
Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Sustainable Materials have developed a carbon-free, energy-saving method to extract nickel for batteries, magnets and stainless steel.
Max Planck scientists design a process that merges metal extraction, alloying and processing into one single, eco-friendly step. Their results are now published in the journal Nature.
Start of a collaborative research project on the sustainable production of manganese and its alloys being funded by European Union with 7 million euros