Cordill, M. J.; Schmidegg, K.; Dehm, G.: Interface failure and adhesion measured by focused ion beam cutting of metal-polymer interfaces. Philosophical Magazine Letters 91 (8), pp. 530 - 536 (2011)
Taylor, A. A.; Cordill, M. J.; Moser, G.; Dehm, G.: A Mechanical Method for Preparing TEM Samples from Brittle Films on Compliant Substrates. Practical Metallography - Praktische Metallographie 48 (8), pp. 408 - 413 (2011)
Cordill, M. J.; Taylor, A. A.; Schalko, J.; Dehm, G.: Microstructure and adhesion of as-deposited and annealed Cu/Ti films on polyimide. International Journal of Materials Research 102 (6), pp. 729 - 734 (2011)
Hou, J.; Zhang, Z.; Preis, W.; Sitte, W.; Dehm, G.: Electrical properties and structure of grain boundaries in n-conducting BaTiO3 ceramics. Journal of the European Ceramic Society 31 (5), pp. 763 - 771 (2011)
Cha, L.; Clemens, H.; Dehm, G.: Microstructure evolution and mechanical properties of an intermetallic Ti–43.5Al–4Nb–1Mo–0.1B alloy after ageing below the eutectoid temperature. International Journal of Materials Research 102 (6), pp. 703 - 708 (2011)
Heinz, W.; Pippan, R.; Dehm, G.: Investigation of the fatigue behavior of Al thin films with different microstructure. Materials Science and Engineering A: Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing 527 (29-30), pp. 7757 - 7763 (2010)
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…
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…
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…
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.
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.