AG Meyer – Electron microscopy meets energy materials
The transformation to a sustainable energy supply on the global scale remains one of the biggest challenges of our time and despite all technological achievements a holistic solution is still out of sight. A major limitation to solve the energy crisis is the fact that existing sustainable technologies are not arbitrarily scalable due to lacking resource abundances. Consequently, a high diversity of renewable energy sources is indispensable, which requires ongoing research effort to get prepared for the time when the potential of current technologies gets increasingly exhausted.In our group, we focus on the investigation of materials related to renewable energy sources using electron microscopy (EM). The high resolution power as well as the chemical sensitivity of EM offer key insights into the structure and composition of the materials in question, however, necessary sample preparation steps as well as the interaction between electron beam and sample often impede the interpretability of results in the context of desired applications. We continuously work on developing and improving EM methods to master these challenges and eventually add knowledge to the energy materials community.
Possible bachelor, master, and PhD projects typically require a subset of skills including hands-on work in the lab, numerical simulations and model-based data analysis. Interested people are welcome to contact Meyer and we will find a topic that matches your skills and passion.