Zhang, S.; Kim, S.-H.; Mingers, A. M.; Gault, B.; Scheu, C.: Operando Study on the corrosion of photo-electrocatalysts. NRF-DFG meeting “Electrodes for direct sea-water splitting and microstructure based stability analyses”, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon-si, South Korea (2023)
Zhang, S.: Microstructure design in thermoelectric materials: in situ observation of doping behavior and role of grain boundary phases. Colloqium, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2023)
Zhang, S.: Microstructure design in thermoelectric materials: Decoupling the transport properties and in situ observation at operation conditions. Colloqium, TU Darmstadt, Darmstadt, Germany (2023)
Scheu, C.; Zhang, S.: Hematite for light induced water splitting – improving efficiency by tuning distribution of Sn dopants at the atomic scale. Karlsruher Werkstoffkolloquium_Digital (2021)
Zhang, S.: Electron Microscopy. DGK-AK20 Summer School “Synthesis and characterization of inorganic functional materials”, Mülheim (Ruhr), Germany (2019)
Scheu, C.; Zhang, S.: Effect of interfaces on the photoelectrochemical performance of functional oxides. PICS3 2019 Meeting, Centre Interdisciplinaire de Nanoscience de Marseille, Marseille, France (2019)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
Oxides find broad applications as catalysts or in electronic components, however are generally brittle materials where dislocations are difficult to activate in the covalent rigid lattice. Here, the link between plasticity and fracture is critical for wide-scale application of functional oxide materials.
Copper is widely used in micro- and nanoelectronics devices as interconnects and conductive layers due to good electric and mechanical properties. But especially the mechanical properties degrade significantly at elevated temperatures during operating conditions due to segregation of contamination elements to the grain boundaries where they cause…
In this project we work on correlative atomic structural and compositional investigations on Co and CoNi-based superalloys as a part of SFB/Transregio 103 project “Superalloy Single Crystals”. The task is to image the boron segregation at grain boundaries in the Co-9Al-9W-0.005B alloy.
The aim of the work is to develop instrumentation, methodology and protocols to extract the dynamic strength and hardness of micro-/nano- scale materials at high strain rates using an in situ nanomechanical tester capable of indentation up to constant strain rates of up to 100000 s−1.