Chen, Y.; Erbe, A.: Probing interfacial layer thickness and electronic properties of electrochemical interfaces: The example of oxide on zinc. 112th Bunsentagung (Annual German Conference on Physical Chemistry), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany (2013)
Chen, Y.; Schneider, P.; Erbe, A.: Investigation of electrochemical oxide growth on zinc by spectroscopic ellipsometry: An example of in operando spectroscopy. EMNT 2012 - 9th International Symposium on Electrochemical Micro & Nanosystem Technologies, Linz, Austria (2012)
Chen, Y.; Schneider, P.; Erbe, A.: In-situ ellipsometric monitoring of electrochemical preparation of ZnO nanoplates. 62nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Niigata, Japan (2011)
Chen, Y.; Milenkovic, S.; Hassel, A. W.: Fabrication of Iso-oriented Gold Nanobelt Arrays from an Fe–Au Eutectoid. 9th International Conference on Nanostructured Materials, Rio de Janerio, Brazil (2008)
Hassel, A. W.; Milenkovic, S.; Chen, Y.: Metal nanowire growth by directional solidification of eutectics. ICON 2007 ( International Conference on One dimensional Nanostructures), Malmö, Sweden (2007)
Chen, Y.; Milenkovic, S.; Hassel, A. W.: Gold Nanostructures through directional Eutectoid Transformation. EUROMAT 2007, European Congress and Exhibition on Advanced Materials and Processes, Nürnberg, Germany (2007)
Vasan, G.; Chen, Y.; Erbe, A.: Finite element analysis of surface enhancement in surface enhanced attenuated total reflection infrared spectroscopy. ENFI 2011, Linz, Austria (2011)
Chen, Y.; Zuo, J.; Schneider, P.; Erbe, A.: Real-time investigation of ZnO growth on Zn by spectroscopic ellipsometry. 3rd NanoCharm Workshop on Non-Destructive Real Time Process Control, Berlin, Germany (2010)
Chen, Y.; Hassel, A. W.: Electrochemical Release of High Aspect Ratio Gold Nanobelts from an Fe-Au eutectoid. Bunsentagung 2008, Saarbrücken, Deutschland (2008)
Chen, Y.: Gold Nanostructures born from the Fe–Au Eutectoid: Electrochemical and Physical Investigations. Dissertation, Ruhr-Universität-Bochum, Bochum, Germany (2009)
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…
Biological materials in nature have a lot to teach us when in comes to creating tough bio-inspired designs. This project aims to explore the unknown impact mitigation mechanisms of the muskox head (ovibus moschatus) at several length scales and use this gained knowledge to develop a novel mesoscale (10 µm to 1000 µm) metamaterial that can mimic the…
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.