Busch, F.; Balogun, O.; Snyder, G. J.; Scheu, C.; Isotta, E.: Unravelling grain boundary influences on electronic and lattice thermal conductivity in Mn-doped SnTe thermoelectrics. 21st European Conference on Thermoelectrics (ECT) 2025, Nancy, Frankreich (2025)
Mattlat, D. A.; Jung, C.; Ying, P.; Li, J.; He, S.; Bahrami, A.; Zhang, S.; Scheu, C.: New method of FIB TEM sample preparation for in situ heating and biasing MEMS chip used for investigation on Zn4Sb3 thermoelectric material. Microscopy Conference (MC) 2025, Karlsruhe, Germany (2025)
Mattlat, D. A.; Bueno Villoro, R.; Jung, C.; Naderloo, R. H.; He, R.; Nielsch, K.; Zavanelli, D.; Snyder, G. J.; Zhang, S.; Scheu, C.: Electron microscopy characterization of grain boundaries in Nb1-xTixFeSb based half-Heusler thermoelectric materials. Electron Microscopy Congress (EMC) 2024, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024)
Mattlat, D. A.; Bueno Villoro, R.; Jung, C.; Scheu, C.; Zhang, S.; Naderloo, R. H.; Nielsch, K.; He, .; Zavanelli, D.; Snyder, G. J.: Effective doping of InSbat the grain boundaries in Nb1-xTixFeSb based Half-Heusler thermoelectricsfor high electrical conductivity and Seebeckcoefficient. 40th International & 20th European Conference on Thermoelectrics, Krakow, Poland (accepted)
Bueno Villoro, R.; Zavanelli, D.; Jung, C.; Mattlat, D. A.; Naderloo, R. H.; Pérez, N. A.; Nielsch, K.; Snyder, G. J.; Scheu, C.; He, R.et al.; Zhang, S.: Grain Boundary Phases in NbFeSb Half-Heusler Alloys: A New Avenue to Tune Transport Properties of Thermoelectric Materials. Microscopy of semiconducting materials conference, Cambridge, UK (2023)
Bueno Villoro, R.; Luo, T.; Bishara, H.; Abdellaoui, L.; Gault, B.; Wood, M.; Snyder, G. J.; Scheu, C.; Zhang, S.: Effect of grain boundaries on electrical conductivity in Ti(Co,Fe)Sb half Heusler thermoelectrics. 719. WE-Heraeus-Seminar, Understanding Transport Processes on the Nanoscale for Energy Harvesting Devices, online (2021)
Aymerich Armengol, R.; Lim, J.; Ledendecker, M.; Scheu, C.: Structure-property relationship studies of Pt/TiO2 nanomaterials for electrochemical applications. International Workshop on Advanced and In-situ Microscopies of Functional Nanomaterials and Devices, IAMNano 2019 , Düsseldorf, Germany (2019)
Changizi, R.; Lim, J.; Zhang, S.; Schwarz, T.; Scheu, C.: Characterization of KCa2Nb3O10. IAMNano 2019, International Workshop on Advanced and In-situ Microscopies of Functional Nanomaterials and Devices, Düsseldorf, Germany (2019)
Gänsler, T.; Hengge, K. A.; Scheu, C.: 3D Reconstruction of Identical Location Electron Micrographs – Methodology and Pitfalls. IAMNano 2019, International Workshop on Advanced and In-situ Microscopies of Functional Nanomaterials and Devices, Düsseldorf, Germany (2019)
Sahu, R.; Singh Negi, D.; Scheu, C.: Local strain field in distorted 1T (1Td) MoS2 phases by GPA. International Workshop on Advanced and In-situ Microscopies of Functional Nanomaterials and Devices, IAMNano 2019, Düsseldorf, Germany (2019)
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.
Scientists of the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung pioneer new machine learning model for corrosion-resistant alloy design. Their results are now published in the journal Science Advances
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In collaboration with Dr. Edgar Rauch, SIMAP laboratory, Grenoble, and Dr. Wolfgang Ludwig, MATEIS, INSA Lyon, we are developing a correlative scanning precession electron diffraction and atom probe tomography method to access the three-dimensional (3D) crystallographic character and compositional information of nanomaterials with unprecedented…
We simulate the ionization contrast in field ion microscopy arising from the electronic structure of the imaged surface. For this DFT calculations of the electrified surface are combined with the Tersoff-Hamann approximation to electron tunneling. The approach allows to explain the chemical contrast observed for NiRe alloys.
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