Saksena, A.; Sun, B.; Dong, X.; Khanchandani, H.; Ponge, D.; Gault, B.: Optimizing site-specific specimen preparation for atom probe tomography by using hydrogen for visualizing radiation-induced damage. International Journal of Hydrogen Energy 50 (Part A), pp. 165 - 174 (2024)
Jacob, K.; Khanchandani, H.; Dixit, S.; Jaya, B. N.: Suppression of Reverted Austenite in Cold-Rolled Maraging Steels and Its Impact on Mechanical Properties. Metallurgical and Materials Transactions A 54 (12), pp. 4976 - 4993 (2023)
Khanchandani, H.; Gault, B.: Atomic scale understanding of the role of hydrogen and oxygen segregation in the embrittlement of grain boundaries in a twinning induced plasticity steel. Scripta Materialia 234, 115593 (2023)
Khanchandani, H.; Stephenson, L.; Raabe, D.; Zaefferer, S.; Gault, B.: Hydrogen/Deuterium Charging Methods for the Investigation of Site-Specific Microstructural Features by Atom Probe Tomography. Microscopy and Microanalysis 28 (S1), p. 1664 (2022)
El-Zoka, A.; Kim, S.-H.; Khanchandani, H.; Stephenson, L.; Gault, B.: Advances in Cryo-Atom Probe Tomography Studies on Formation of Nanoporous Metals by Dealloying (Digital Presentation). In ECS Meeting Abstracts, MA2022-01 (47), p. 1983. The Electrochemical Society (2022)
This project is a joint project of the De Magnete group and the Atom Probe Tomography group, and was initiated by MPIE’s participation in the CRC TR 270 HOMMAGE. We also benefit from additional collaborations with the “Machine-learning based data extraction from APT” project and the Defect Chemistry and Spectroscopy group.
This project targets to exploit or develop new methodologies to not only visualize the 3D morphology but also measure chemical distribution of as-synthesized nanostructures using atom probe tomography.
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.