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)
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.