Woods, E.; Singh, M. P.; Kim, S.-H.; Schwarz, T.; Douglas, J. O.; El-Zoka, A.; Giulani, F.; Gault, B.: A versatile and reproducible cryo-sample preparation methodology for atom probe studies. Microscopy and Microanalysis, ozad120 29 (6), pp. 1992 - 2003 (2023)
Dubosq, R.; Woods, E.; Gault, B.; Best, J. P.: Electron microscope loading and in situ nanoindentation of water ice at cryogenic temperatures. PLoS One 18 (2), e0281703 (2023)
Kim, S.-H.; Dong, K.; Zhao, H.; El-Zoka, A.; Zhou, X.; Woods, E.; Giuliani, F.; Manke, I.; Raabe, D.; Gault, B.: Understanding the Degradation of a Model Si Anode in a Li-Ion Battery at the Atomic Scale. The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters 13 (36), pp. 8416 - 8421 (2022)
Ye, Y.; Lish, S. D.; Xu, L.; Woods, E.; Chen, S.; Ren, Y.; Wittmann, M. W.; Xu, H.; Gault, B.; Baker, I.: Exceptional Soft Magnetic Properties of an Ordered Multi-principal Element Alloy with Disordered Nanoprecipitates. High Entropy Alloys & Materials (2022)
Tutwiler, V.; Litvinov, R. I.; Protopopova, A.; Nagaswami, C.; Villa, C.; Woods, E.; Abdulmalik, O.; Siegel, D. L.; Russell, J. E.; Muzykantov, V. R.et al.; Lam, W. A.; Myers, D. R.; Weisel, J. W.: Pathologically stiff erythrocytes impede contraction of blood clots. Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis 19 (8), pp. 1990 - 2001 (2021)
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…
Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) of steel is a great challenge in engineering applications. However, the HE mechanisms are not fully understood. Conventional studies of HE are mostly based on post mortem observations of the microstructure evolution and those results can be misleading due to intermediate H diffusion. Therefore, experiments with a…
Smaller is stronger” is well known in micromechanics, but the properties far from the quasi-static regime and the nominal temperatures remain unexplored. This research will bridge this gap on how materials behave under the extreme conditions of strain rate and temperature, to enhance fundamental understanding of their deformation mechanisms. The…
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 HCP 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.
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.
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.