Torres, E.; Blumenau, A. T.; Biedermann, P. U.: Mechanism for phase transitions and vacancy island formation in alkylthiol/Au(111)self-assembled monolayers based on adatom and vacancy-induced reconstructions. Physical Review B 79 (7), pp. 075440-1 - 075440-6 (2009)
Pengel, S.; Niu, F.; Nayak, S.; Tecklenburg, S.; Chen, Y.-H.; Ebbinghaus, P.; Schulz, R.; Yang, L.; Biedermann, P. U.; Gygi, F.et al.; Schmid, R.; Galli, G.; Wippermann, S. M.; Erbe, A.: Oxygen reduction and water at the semiconductor/solution interface probed by stationary and time-resolved ATR-IR spectroscopy coupled to electrochemical experiments and DFT calculations. In: Program of the 8th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS) – Oral Abstracts, pp. 130 - 131 (Eds. Lendl, B.; Koch, C.; Kraft, M.; Ofner, J.; Ramer, G.). 8th International Conference on Advanced Vibrational Spectroscopy (ICAVS), Vienna, Austria, July 12, 2015 - July 17, 2015. (2015)
Berezkin, A. V.; Biedermann, P. U.: Multiscale simulation of polyurethane network. World Polymer Congress 2012, Blacksburg, Virginia Tech, USA, June 24, 2012 - June 29, 2012. (2012)
Berezkin, A. V.; Biedermann, P. U.; Auer, A. A.: Mesoscale simulation of network formation and structure, combining molecular dynamics and kinetic Monte Carlo approaches. European Polymer Congress 2011, Granada, Spain, June 26, 2011 - July 01, 2011. (2011)
Kenmoe, S.; Biedermann, P. U.: Water adsorption on non polar ZnO surfaces: from single molecules to multilayers. In APS March Meeting 2015, abstract #G8.011. APS March Meeting 2015 , San Antonio, TX, USA, March 02, 2015 - March 06, 2015. (2015)
Kenmoe, S.; Biedermann, P. U.: Water adsorption on non polar ZnO surfaces: from single molecules to multilayers. In DPG Spring Meeting 2015, Abstract: O14.12. DPG Spring Meeting 2015 , Berlin, Germany, March 16, 2015 - March 20, 2015. (2015)
Kenmoe, S.; Todorova, M.; Biedermann, P. U.; Neugebauer, J.: Impact of the vapour pressure of water on the equilibrium shape of ZnO nanoparticles: An ab-initio study. In APS March Meeting 2014, abstract #Q2.009. APS March Meeting 2014 , Denver, CO, USA, March 03, 2014 - March 07, 2014. (2014)
Kenmoe, S.; Todorova, M.; Biedermann, P. U.; Neugebauer, J.: Impact of the vapour pressure of water on the equilibrium shape of ZnO nanoparticles: An ab-initio study. In DPG Spring Meeting 2014, Abstract: O50.6. DPG Spring Meeting 2014 , Dresden, Germany, March 30, 2014 - April 04, 2015. (2014)
Biedermann, P. U.; Nayak, S.; Erbe, A.: The Mechanism of Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction: A Combined DFT and in-Situ ATR-IR Study on Model Semiconductor Surfaces Ge(100) and ZnO. 227th ECS Meeting, Chicago, IL, USA (2015)
Biedermann, P. U.; Nayak, S.; Erbe, A.: Catching intermediates of the oxygen reduction reaction in situ: Insights from electrochemical ATIR-IR and DFT. 112th Bunsentagung (Annual German Conference on Physical Chemistry), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Karlsruhe, Germany (2013)
Biedermann, P. U.; Nayak, S.; Erbe, A.: Towards Understanding the Mechanism of the Electrochemical Oxygen Reduction: DFT Modeling and Spectroelectrochemical Validation. Pacific Rim Meeting on Electrochemical and Solid-State Science PRIME 2012 / ECS 222, Honolulu, HI, USA (2012)
Nayak, S.; Biedermann, P. U.; Stratmann, M.; Erbe, A.: In situ Electrochemical ATR-IR Investigation of the Oxygen Reduction on Germanium. 62nd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry, Niigata, Japan (2011)
Berezkin, A. V.; Biedermann, P. U.; Auer, A. A.: Mesoscale simulation of network formation and structure, combining molecular dynamics and kinetic Monte Carlo approaches. European Polymer Congress 2011, Granada, Spain (2011)
Berezkin, A. V.; Biedermann, P. U.: Simulation of polyurethane and water interac-tions with the ZnO surface: DFT and classical OPLS-AA force field calculation. 4-th World Congress on Adhesion and Related Phenomena, Arcachon, France 2010 (2010)
Biedermann, P. U.: Ab initio approaches to Solvation Free Energies and Single-Ion Chemical Potentials. Minisymposium "Challenges for Theory in Electrochemistry", MPI für Eisenforschung GmbH, Düsseldorf, Germany (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…
Despite the immanent advantages of metals and alloys processed by additive manufacturing (e.g. design freedom for complex geometry) and unexpected merits (e.g. superior mechanical performance) of AM processes, there are several remaining issues that need to be addressed in order to practically apply AM alloys to various industries. One of the most important issues is the mechanical behavior of AM alloys under hydrogen environments, since it is easily encountered in the industrial fields and has generally detrimental effects on metals and alloys.
Project C3 of the SFB/TR103 investigates high-temperature dislocation-dislocation and dislocation-precipitate interactions in the gamma/gamma-prime microstructure of Ni-base superalloys.
Hydrogen at crack tips can embrittle steels and lead to catastrophic material failure. In this project we develop a continuum model for the formation of hydride zones in the tensile regions of a crack tip. It changes the fracture properties of static and propagating fractures.
Funding ended January 2023 This group was concerned with the 3D mapping of hydrogen at near-atomic scale in metallic alloys with the aim to better understand hydrogen storage materials and hydrogen embrittlement.
Hydrogen embrittlement is a persistent mode of failure in modern structural materials. The processes related to HE span various time and spatial scales. Thus we are establishing multiscale approaches that are based on the parameters and insights obtained by accurate ab initio calculations in order to simulate HE at the continuum level.
In this project, we directly image and characterize solute hydrogen and hydride by use of atom probe tomography combined with electron microscopy, with the aim to investigate H interaction with different phases and lattice defects (such as grain boundaries, dislocation, etc.) in a set of specimens of commercially pure Ti, model and commercial…
The goal of this project is to develop an environmental chamber for mechanical testing setups, which will enable mechanical metrology of different microarchitectures such as micropillars and microlattices, as a function of temperature, humidity and gaseous environment.