Schneider, P.; Sigel, R.; Lange, M. M.; Beier, F.; Renner, F. U.; Erbe, A.: Activation and fluoride-assisted phosphating of aluminium silicon coated steel. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 5 (10), pp. 4224 - 4232 (2013)
Kawano, T.; Renner, F. U.: Studies on Wetting Behaviour of Hot-dip Galvanizing Process by use of Model Specimens with Tailored Surface Oxides. Surf. Int. Anal. 44 (8), pp. 1009 - 1012 (2012)
Kawano, T.; Renner, F. U.: Tailoring Model Surface and Wetting Experiment for a Fundamental Understanding of Hot-dip Galvanizing. ISIJ International 51, 10, pp. 1703 - 1709 (2011)
Valtiner, M.; Ankah, G. N.; Bashir, A.; Renner, F. U.: Atomic force microscope imaging and force measurements at electrified and actively corroding interfaces: Challenges and novel cell design. Review of Scientific Instruments 82 (2), pp. 023703-1 - 023703-8 (2011)
Naraparaju, R.; Christ, H.-J.; Renner, F. U.; Kostka, A.: Effect of shot-peening on the oxidation behaviour of boiler steels. Oxidation of Metals 76 (3-4), pp. 233 - 245 (2011)
Borissov, D.; Pareek, A.; Renner, F. U.; Rohwerder, M.: Electrodeposition of Zn and Au–Zn alloys at low temperature in an ionic liquid. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 12 (9), pp. 2059 - 2062 (2010)
Gründer, Y.; Renner, F. U.; Lee,, T. L.: The electrodeposition of copper onto UHV-prepared GaAs(001) surfaces. Surface Science 603 (17), pp. L105 - L108 (2009)
Naraparaju, R.; Christ, H.-J.; Renner, F. U.; Kostka, A.: Dislocation Engineering and its effect on the oxidation behaviour. Materials at High Temperatures 29, pp. 116 - 122 (2012)
Duarte, M. J.; Brinckmann, S.; Renner, F. U.; Dehm, G.: Nanomechanical testing under environmental conditins of Fe-based metallic glasses. 22st International Symposium on Metastable Amorphous and Nanostructured Materials, ISMANAM 2015, Paris, France (2015)
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…
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.
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…
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.
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.