Staff

Field of research:

• Material processing:
  • Solid state synthesis of functional ceramics
  • Hydrothermal synthesis of nanomaterials
• Advanced TEM characterization and method developments:
  • Structural and chemical characterization of materials and correlation to properties at high spatial resolution
  • Quantitative atomic-scale studies of crystal structure, chemistry and bonding of interfaces and nanostructures
  • Quantitative atomic resolution HRTEM and HAADF/ABF/BF STEM image analysis
  • Quantitative EELS analysis
• In situ transmission electron microscopy:
  • In situ heating and cooling TEM experiments
  • In situ studies of structural phase transitions

Field of research:

• Transmission electron microscopy (TEM)
• Liquid TEM
• Focused ion beam (FIB) TEM lamella preparation
• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and Energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS)
• Meteoritics

Field of research:

• Functional ceramics with perovskite structure, thermoelectrics
• 1-D oxide nanostructures
• Solar cells
• Photocatalytic (micro)reactors
• Electron microscopy (SEM, EPMA, STEM/TEM, AEM, HR HAADF-STEM)

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Field of research:

• Electrocemical sensors for chemical species in food and enviroment based on metalic nanostructures

Field of research:

• Non-crystalline alloys and compounds: metallic glasses, intermetallics and complex metallic alloys, quasicrystals.
• Crystal structure and local order; formation and stability of complex compounds; properties of complex metallic compounds and quasicrystals: electronic structure, heat transport, solid-solid adhesion,
  wetting, friction; applications of quasicrystals & complex intermetallics.

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Field of research:

• Dry and wet materials processing
• Metallographic sample preparation
• Dilatometry
• Porosimetry
• Materials mechanical properties evaluation

Field of research:

• Engineering and bioveramic materials
• Hydrolysis of self-assembly powders
• Aluminum hydroxides and oxides

Field of research:

• Materials for fusion applications
• Silicon carbide ceramics
• SiCf/SiC composites
• Graphic design

Field of research:

• Hydrothermal synthesis and characterization of inorganic fractal structures
• Twinning in minerals with the rutile structure
• Scanning electron microscopy (SEM
• Transmision electron microscopy (TEM)

Field of research:

• W-based composites for fusion application
• Spark Plasma Sintering (SPS)
• Mechanical properties, XRD
• Conductor of the JSI choir Vox Scientiae

Field of research:

• Ab-initio electronic structure calculations, based on the density functional theory, focused on magnetic properties of solids, namely hyperfine parameters, nonlinear magnetoelastic effects, X-ray magnetic dichroism (XMCD) spectra…

Field of research:

• Electrochemical study and deposition of magnetic thin films, nanowires and nanotubes based on Fe-Pd and Co-Pt system
• Multifunctional nanomaterials based on magnetic (FePt, Fe3O4) and optically active components (Au) for bioapplications such as magnetic resonance imaging, magnetic hyperthermia, photo-thermal and sensing
• Formation of »smart nanocarriers« made of SiO2, biopolymers (chitosan, gelatine, etc.) and thermo-responsive liposomes

Field of research:

• Electroconductive composites (ZrO₂-TiN)
• Pulsed electric current sintering (PECS)
• Electrical discharge machining

Field of research:

• Understanding the correlation between microstructure and magnetic properties in hard magnets.
• Advanced TEM characterization and method developments:
  • Detailed structural and chemical analysis of grain boundaries, triple pockets and phase boundaries by using the most advanced analytical electron microscopy (AEM) techniques which involves
  • HRTEM, HAADF-STEM, EDXS and EELS analysis
• In situ transmission electron microscopy:
  • In situ dynamic electrochemical TEM studies of recycled magnets.
  • Magnetic testing (Permeameter, VSM)

Field of research:

• ZnO ceramics
• Varistors
• Synthesis and characterization of ZnO nanostructures and nanopowders
• Scanning electron microscopy

Field of research:

• Slip casting ceramics process

Field of research:

• A specialist for scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and electron-probe microanalysis (EDXS, WDXS)

Field of research:

• Photocatalytic (micro)reactors
• Dye-sensitized solar cells
• Anodic oxidation
• Electrophoretic deposition (EPD)

Field of research:

• Hard magnetic materials
• Melt-spun materials
• Spark plasma sintering (SPS)
• Magnetic measurements
• Optical and electron microscopy

Field of research:

• Development of novel hard magnetic NdFe₁₂N_x-based magnets by electrodeposition
• Electrochemical technologies (cyclic voltammetry, chronoamperometry
• Ionic liquids
• Electrodeposition of NdFe₁₂ and NdFe₁₂N_x phase