Atom probe tomography

B Gault, A Chiaramonti, O Cojocaru-Mirédin… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Atom probe tomography (APT) provides three-dimensional compositional mapping with sub-
nanometre resolution. The sensitivity of APT is in the range of parts per million for all …

Materials properties characterization in the most extreme environments

DK Schreiber, R Schwaiger, M Heilmaier… - MRS Bulletin, 2022 - Springer
There is an ever-increasing need for material systems to operate in the most extreme
environments encountered in space exploration, energy production, and propulsion …

Laser-equipped gas reaction chamber for probing environmentally sensitive materials at near atomic scale

H Khanchandani, AA El-Zoka, SH Kim, U Tezins… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Numerous metallurgical and materials science applications depend on quantitative atomic-
scale characterizations of environmentally-sensitive materials and their transient states …

Irradiation damage reduces alloy corrosion rate via oxide space charge compensation effects

Z Yu, E Kautz, H Zhang, A Schneider, T Kim, Y Zhang… - Acta Materialia, 2023 - Elsevier
Radiation effects in materials often compound and accelerate other detrimental phenomena
such as embrittlement, oxidation and creep. However, irradiation can also decrease the …

Visualizing the nanoscale oxygen and cation transport mechanisms during the early stages of oxidation of Fe–Cr–Ni alloy using in situ atom probe tomography

A Devaraj, DJ Barton, CH Li… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the early stages of interactions between oxygen and material surfaces—
especially at very high spatial resolutions—is highly beneficial for fields ranging from …

Resolving Diverse Oxygen Transport Pathways Across Sr‐Doped Lanthanum Ferrite and Metal‐Perovskite Heterostructures

SD Taylor, KH Yano, M Sassi… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Perovskite structured transition metal oxides are important technological materials for
catalysis and solid oxide fuel cell applications. Their functionality often depends on oxygen …

Rapid assessment of interfacial stabilization mechanisms of metastable precipitates to accelerate high-temperature Al-alloy development

B Gwalani, J Liu, S Lambeets, M Olszta… - Materials Research …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Precipitate strengthened high-temperature alloys are currently used in safety-critical
applications. Understanding precipitate stability and solute segregation mechanisms at high …

Rapid assessment of structural and compositional changes during early stages of zirconium alloy oxidation

EJ Kautz, B Gwalani, SVM Lambeets, L Kovarik… - npj Materials …, 2020 - nature.com
A multimodal chemical imaging approach has been developed and applied to detail the
dynamic, atomic-scale changes associated with oxidation of a zirconium alloy (Zircaloy-4) …

Element redistributions during early stages of oxidation in a Ni38Cr22Fe20Mn10Co10 multi-principal element alloy

EJ Kautz, SV Lambeets, DE Perea, AY Gerard, J Han… - Scripta Materialia, 2021 - Elsevier
Element redistributions after initial oxidation of a Ni 38 Cr 22 Fe 20 Mn 10 Co 10 (at.%) multi-
principle element alloy at 120° C and 300° C is captured via in situ atom probe tomography …

Compositional partitioning during early stages of oxidation of a uranium-molybdenum alloy

EJ Kautz, SV Lambeets, J Royer, DE Perea, SS Harilal… - Scripta Materialia, 2022 - Elsevier
Compositional partitioning during uranium alloy oxidation was studied via complementary
ex situ-in situ atom probe tomography. Nanoscopic volumes of uranium-22 at …