Dutta, B.: Coupling of magnetic and lattice degrees of freedom in magnetic Heusler alloys: Consequences for phase diagrams. Seminar at Materials Research Centre, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru, India (2017)
Dutta, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Finite temperature excitation mechanisms and their coupling in magnetic shape memory alloys. The Materials Research Centre (MRC), Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India (2017)
Dutta, B.; Begum, V.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Impact of doping on the magnetic and structural transformations in magnetocaloric materials. DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, Dresden, Germany (2017)
Dutta, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio modelling of phase diagrams in magnetic Heusler alloys: achievements and future challenges. SUSTech Global Scientists Forum, Shenzhen, China (2017)
Dutta, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Intermartensitic Phase Boundaries in Ni–Mn–Ga Alloys: A Viewpoint from Ab initio Thermodynamics. 5th International Conference on Ferromagnetic Shape Memory Alloys, Sendai, Japan (2016)
Dutta, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Phase diagrams in magnetic shape memory alloys: Insights obtained from ab initio thermodynamics. The forty-fifth International Conference on Computer Coupling of Phase Diagrams and Thermochemistry, Awaji Island, Hyogo, Japan (2016)
Dutta, B.; Debashish, D.; Ghosh, S.; Sanyal, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Intricacies of phonon line shapes in random alloys: A first-principles study. DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, Regensburg, Germany (2016)
Dutta, B.; Begum, V.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Impact of point defects on the phase stability in Heusler alloys: A first-principles study. DPG Spring Meeting of the Condensed Matter Section, Regensburg, Germany (2016)
Dutta, B.; Körmann, F.; Hickel, T.; Ghosh, S.; Sanyal, B.; Neugebauer, J.: The Itinerant Coherent Potential Approximation for phonons: role of fluctuations for systems with magnetic and chemical disorder. Materials Theory Group, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, USA (2015)
Dutta, B.; Körmann, F.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: The itinerant coherent potential approximation for phonons: Role of fluctuations for systems with magnetic disorder. 2nd German-Austrian Workshop, Kirchdorf, Austria (2015)
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.