Polycrystalline materials
The 4D Materials Physics group at the NEXMAP section (DTU Physics) works on diffraction based imaging techniques that allow in-situ investigations in 4D (space + time) of the structural evolution that takes place inside polycrystalline materials (e.g. metals, ceramics, minerals).
The 4D methods enable the creation of movies of material evolution as a function of external stimuli such as temperature, deformation or electric field. Properties like morphology, orientation, stress and strain can be followed for each grain or sub-grain.
More recently, NEXMAP researchers have received an ERC Advanced Grant to generalize the methods to the nano-scale.
Energy materials
The section for Imaging and Structural Analysis (ISA) at DTU Energy specializes in the investigation of energy materials with X-ray CT.