Open Access Publications 
Department Microstructure Physics and Alloy Design

Després, A.; Antonov, S.; Mayer, C.; Veron, M.; Rauch, E. F.; Tassin, C.; Blandin, J.-J.; Kontis, P.; Martin, G.: Revealing the true partitioning character of zirconium in additively manufactured polycrystalline superalloys. Additive Manufacturing Letters 1, 100011 (2021)

Kühbach, M. T.; Bajaj, P.; Zhao, H.; Çelik, M. H.; Jägle, E. A.; Gault, B.: On strong-scaling and open-source tools for analyzing atom probe tomography data. npj Computational Materials 7 (1), 21 (2021)

Sun, B.; Lu, W.; Gault, B.; Ding, R.; Makineni, S. K.; Wan, D.; Wu, C.-H.; Chen, H.; Ponge, D.; Raabe, D.: Chemical heterogeneity enhances hydrogen resistance in high-strength steels. Nature Materials 20, pp. 1629 - 1634 (2021)

Wesselmecking, S.; Haupt, M.; Ma, Y.; Song, W.; Hirt, G.; Bleck, W.: Mechanism-controlled thermomechanical treatment of high manganese steels. Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 828, 142056 (2021)

Sedighiani, K.; Shah, V.; Traka, K.; Diehl, M.; Roters, F.; Sietsma, J.; Raabe, D.: Large-deformation crystal plasticity simulation of microstructure and microtexture evolution through adaptive remeshing. International Journal of Plasticity 146, 103078 (2021)

Ahmadian, A.; Schreiber, D.; Zhou, X.; Gault, B.; Liebscher, C.; Romaner, L.; Dehm, G.: Aluminum depletion induced by co-segregation of carbon and boron in a bcc-iron grain boundary. Nature Communications 12, 6008 (2021)

Kühbach, M. T.; Kasemer, M.; Gault, B.; Breen, A. J.: Open and strong-scaling tools for atom-probe crystallography: high-throughput methods for indexing crystal structure and orientation. Journal of Applied Crystallography 54 (Pt 5), pp. 1490 - 1508 (2021)

Traka, K.; Sedighiani, K.; Bos, C.; Lopez, J. G.; Angenendt, K.; Raabe, D.; Sietsma, J.: Topological aspects responsible for recrystallization evolution in an IF-steel sheet – Investigation with cellular-automaton simulations. Computational Materials Science 198, 110643 (2021)

Wan, D.; Ma, Y.; Sun, B.; Razavi, S. M. J.; Wang, D.; Lu, X.; Song, W.: Evaluation of hydrogen effect on the fatigue crack growth behavior of medium-Mn steels via in-situ hydrogen plasma charging in an environmental scanning electron microscope. Journal of Materials Science & Technology 85, pp. 30 - 43 (2021)

Liu, C.; Li, Z.; Lu, W.; Bao, Y.; Xia, W.; Wu, X.; Zhao, H.; Gault, B.; Liu, C.; Herbig, M. et al.; Fischer, A.; Dehm, G.; Wu, G.; Raabe, D.: Reactive wear protection through strong and deformable oxide nanocomposite surfaces. Nature Communications 12 (1), 5518 (2021)

Han, L.; Rao, Z.; Souza Filho, I. R.; Maccari, F.; Wei, Y.; Wu, G.; Ahmadian, A.; Zhou, X.; Gutfleisch, O.; Ponge, D. et al.; Raabe, D.; Li, Z.: Ultrastrong and Ductile Soft Magnetic High-Entropy Alloys via Coherent Ordered Nanoprecipitates. Advanced Materials 33 (37), 2102139 (2021)

Luo, T.; Serrano Sanchez, F. M.; Bishara, H.; Zhang, S.; Bueno Villoro, R.; Kuo, J. J.; Felser, C.; Scheu, C.; Snyder, G. J.; Best, J. P. et al.; Dehm, G.; Yu, Y.; Raabe, D.; Fu, C.; Gault, B.: Dopant-segregation to grain boundaries controls electrical conductivity of η-type NbCo(Pt)Sn half-Heusler alloy mediating thermoelectric performance. Acta Materialia 217, 117147 (2021)

Nandy, S.; Tsai, S.-P.; Stephenson, L.; Raabe, D.; Zaefferer, S.: The role of Ca, Al and Zn on room temperature ductility and grain boundary cohesion of magnesium. Journal of Magnesium and Alloys 9 (5), pp. 1521 - 1536 (2021)

Lu, E.; Zhao, J.; Makkonen, I.; Mizohata, K.; Li, Z.; Hua, M.; Djurabekova, F.; Tuomisto, F.: Enhancement of vacancy diffusion by C and N interstitials in the equiatomic FeMnNiCoCr high entropy alloy. Acta Materialia 215, 117093 (2021)

Liu, C.; Garner, A.; Zhao, H.; Prangnell, P.; Gault, B.; Raabe, D.; Shanthraj, P.: CALPHAD-informed phase-field modeling of grain boundary microchemistry and precipitation in Al–Zn–Mg–Cu alloys. Acta Materialia 214, 116966 (2021)

Prabhakar, J. M.; Varanasi, R. S.; Corrêa da Silva, C.; de Vooys, A.; Erbe, A.; Rohwerder, M.: Chromium coatings from trivalent chromium plating baths: Characterization and cathodic delamination behaviour. Corrosion Science 187, 109525 (2021)

Jang, K.; Kim, S.-H.; Jun, H.; Jung, C.; Yu, J.; Lee, S.; Choi, P.-P.: Three-dimensional atomic mapping of ligands on palladium nanoparticles by atom probe tomography. Nature Communications 12 (1), 4301 (2021)

Luo, T.; Kuo, J. J.; Griffith, K. J.; Imasato, K.; Cojocaru-Mirédin, O.; Wuttig, M.; Gault, B.; Yu, Y.; Snyder, G. J.: Nb-Mediated Grain Growth and Grain-Boundary Engineering in Mg₃Sb₂-Based Thermoelectric Materials. Advanced Functional Materials 31 (28), 2100258 (2021)

Gault, B.; Poplawsky, J. D.: Author Correction: Correlating advanced microscopies reveals atomic-scale mechanisms limiting lithium-ion battery lifetime (Nature Communications, (2021), 12, 1, (3740), 10.1038/s41467-021-24121-9). Nature Communications 12 (1), 4323 (2021)

Gault, B.; Poplawsky, J. D.: Correlating advanced microscopies reveals atomic-scale mechanisms limiting lithium-ion battery lifetime. Nature Communications 12, 3740 (2021)