Frank, A.; Dias, M.; Hieke, S. W.; Kruth, A.; Scheu, C.: Spontaneous fluctuations in a plasma ion assisted deposition – correlation between deposition conditions and vanadium oxide thin film growth. Thin Solid Films 722, 138574 (2021)
Frank, A.; Wochnik, A. S.; Bein, T.; Scheu, C.: A biomolecule-assisted, cost-efficient route for growing tunable CuInS2 films for green energy application. RSC Advances 7 (33), pp. 20219 - 20230 (2017)
Hettstedt, C.; Frank, A.; Karaghiosoff, K.: Synthesis of two p-methoxyphenyl substituted phosphines. Phosphorus, Sulfur, and Silicon and the Related Elements 191 (10), pp. 1297 - 1301 (2016)
Frank, A.; Changizi, R.; Scheu, C.: Preparative and analytical challenges in electron microscopic investigation of nanostructured CuInS2 thin films for energy applications. Microscience Microscopy Congress (MMC) 2019, Manchester, UK (2019)
Gänsler, T.; Frank, A.; Betzler, S. B.; Scheu, C.: Electron microscopy studies of Nb3O7(OH) nanostructured cubes - insights in the growth mechanism. Microscience Microscopy Congress MMC2019, Manchester, UK (2019)
Frank, A.; Dias, M.; Hieke, S. W.; Kruth, A.; Scheu, C.: Electron microscopic investigation of the influence of plasma parameters on VOx films deposited by a plasma ion assisted process. E-MRS 2019 Spring Meeting, Nice, France (2019)
Hydrogen in aluminium can cause embrittlement and critical failure. However, the behaviour of hydrogen in aluminium was not yet understood. Scientists at the Max-Planck-Institut für Eisenforschung were able to locate hydrogen inside aluminium’s microstructure and designed strategies to trap the hydrogen atoms inside the microstructure. This can…
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) of iron by marine sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) is studied electrochemically and surfaces of corroded samples have been investigated in a long-term project.
In this project we investigate the hydrogen distribution and desorption behavior in an electrochemically hydrogen-charged binary Ni-Nb model alloy. The aim is to study the role of the delta phase in hydrogen embrittlement of the Ni-base alloy 718.
We plan to investigate the rate-dependent tensile properties of 2D materials such as metal thin films and PbMoO4 (PMO) films by using a combination of a novel plan-view FIB based sample lift out method and a MEMS based in situ tensile testing platform inside a TEM.
This project aims to investigate the influence of grain boundaries on mechanical behavior at ultra-high strain rates and low temperatures. For this micropillar compressions on copper bi-crystals containing different grain boundaries will be performed.
Oxidation and corrosion of noble metals is a fundamental problem of crucial importance in the advancement of the long-term renewable energy concept strategy. In our group we use state-of-the-art electrochemical scanning flow cell (SFC) coupled with inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometer (ICP-MS) setup to address the problem.
For understanding the underlying hydrogen embrittlement mechanism in transformation-induced plasticity steels, the process of damage evolution in a model austenite/martensite dual-phase microstructure following hydrogenation was investigated through multi-scale electron channelling contrast imaging and in situ optical microscopy.
We will investigate the electrothermomechanical response of individual metallic nanowires as a function of microstructural interfaces from the growth processes. This will be accomplished using in situ SEM 4-point probe-based electrical resistivity measurements and 2-point probe-based impedance measurements, as a function of mechanical strain and…
Hydrogen induced embrittlement of metals is one of the long standing unresolved problems in Materials Science. A hierarchical multiscale approach is used to investigate the underlying atomistic mechanisms.