Kwiatkowski da Silva, A.; Inden, G.; Ponge, D.; Gault, B.; Raabe, D.: Precipitation of CFCC-TmC Carbides during Tempering at 450°C of a Medium Mn Steel: A Thermodynamic and Kinetic Study Followed by Atom Probe Tomography. TMS 2018 Annual Meeting & Exhibition, Phoenix, AZ, USA (2018)
Gault, B.; Kontis, P.; Cormier, J.; Raabe, D.: From systematic characterisation to the next generation of high performance materials. THERMEC 2018 , Paris, France (2018)
Stephenson, L.; Rusitzka, A. K.; Gault, B.: Seeing atoms in biological materials: a new frontier for atomic-scale tomography. Volkswagen Stifung Symposium, Bremen, Germany (2018)
Rusitzka, A. K.; Stephenson, L.; Gremer, L.; Raabe, D.; Willbold, D.; Gault, B.: Getting insights to Alzheimer‘s disease by atom probe tomography. 6th International caesar conference, Overcoming Barriers — atomic-resolution and beyond: advances in molecular electron microscopy, Bonn, Germany (2017)
Peng, Z.; Gault, B.; Raabe, D.: On the Multiple Event Detection in Atom Probe Tomography. Microscopy & Microanalysis 2017 Conference, St. Louis, MO, USA (2017)
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.