von Pezold, J.; Neugebauer, J.: Hydrogen enhanced local plasticity - An atomistic study. Spring meeting of the German Physical Society (DPG), Berlin, Germany (2008)
Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio design of engineering materials: Status and challenges. UCSB-MPG Workshop on Inorganic Materials for Energy Conversion, Storage and Conservation, UCLA Lake Arrowhead Conference Center, CA, USA (2008)
Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio based modeling of engineering materials: From a predictive thermodynamic description to tailored mechanical properties. UCSB Seminar, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA (2008)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: First principles Determination of Phase Transitions in Magnetic Shape Memory Alloys. Group Seminar in Materials Department, University of California (UCSB), Santa Barbara, CA, USA (2008)
Counts, W. A.; Friák, M.; Raabe, D.; Neugebauer, J.: Using Ab Initio to Predict Engineering Parameters in bcc Magnesium-Lithium Alloys. Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft Meeting, Berlin, Germany (2008)
Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio basiertes Computergestütztes Materialdesign: Von der chemischen Bindung zu realen Werkstoffeigenschaften. Seminar at the TU Clausthal, TU Clausthal, Germany (2008)
Marquardt, O.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Optical properties of semiconductor nanostructures, a PW-approach to real-space properties. MRL seminar at UCSB, UCSB, Santa Barbara, USA (2008)
Grabowski, B.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: From ab initio to materials properties: Accuracy and error bars of DFT thermodynamics. Phonon Workshop, Krakau, Poland (2007)
Hickel, T.; Uijttewaal, M.; Grabowski, B.; Neugebauer, J.: Determination of symmetry reduced structures by a soft-phonon analysis in magnetic shape memory alloys. 2nd Workshop on ab initio phonon calculations, Cracow, Poland (2007)
Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio thermodynamic and kinetics based on material design: Present status and perspectives. Seminar at the University of Oxford, Dept. of Materials, Oxford, UK (2007)
Friák, M.; Sander, B.; Ma, D.; Raabe, D.; Neugebauer, J.: Phase stability and mechanical properties of alloys. International Max-Planck Workshop on Multiscale Modeling of Condensed Matter, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain (2007)
Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio thermodynamics. International Max-Planck Workshop Multiscale Materials Modeling of Condensed Matter, Sant Feliu de Guixols, Spain (2007)
Friák, M.; Neugebauer, J.: First principles study of the anomalous volume-composition effect in Fe-Al and Fe-Ga alloys. 4th Discussion Meeting on the Development of Innovative Iron Aluminum Alloys, Interlaken, Switzerland (2007)
Abu-Farsakh, H.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab-initio study of the thermodynamics and kinetics of N at GaAs(001) surface. PAW workshop 2007, Goslar, Germany (2007)
Oxides find broad applications as catalysts or in electronic components, however are generally brittle materials where dislocations are difficult to activate in the covalent rigid lattice. Here, the link between plasticity and fracture is critical for wide-scale application of functional oxide materials.
In this project we conduct together with Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen and the department of Prof. Neugebauer ab initio calculations for designing new Mg – Li alloys. Ab initio calculations can accurately predict basic structural, mechanical, and functional properties using only the atomic composition as a basis.
The wide tunability of the fundamental electronic bandgap by size control is a key attribute of semiconductor nanocrystals, enabling applications spanning from biomedical imaging to optoelectronic devices. At finite temperature, exciton-phonon interactions are shown to exhibit a strong impact on this fundamental property.
Enabling a ‘hydrogen economy’ requires developing fuel cells satisfying economic constraints, reasonable operating costs and long-term stability. The fuel cell is an electrochemical device that converts chemical energy into electricity by recombining water from H2 and O2, allowing to generate environmentally-friendly power for e.g. cars or houses…
The project Hydrogen Embrittlement Protection Coating (HEPCO) addresses the critical aspects of hydrogen permeation and embrittlement by developing novel strategies for coating and characterizing hydrogen permeation barrier layers for valves and pumps used for hydrogen storage and transport applications.
In this project we study - together with the department of Prof. Neugebauer and Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen - the underlying mechanisms that are responsible for the improved room-temperature ductility in Mg–Y alloys compared to pure Mg.
Efficient harvesting of sunlight and (photo-)electrochemical conversion into solar fuels is an emerging energy technology with enormous promise. Such emerging technologies depend critically on materials systems, in which the integration of dissimilar components and the internal interfaces that arise between them determine the functionality.
In this project, we work on a generic solution to design advanced high-entropy alloys (HEAs) with enhanced magnetic properties. By overturning the concept of stabilizing solid solutions in HEAs, we propose to render the massive solid solutions metastable and trigger spinodal decomposition. The motivation for starting from the HEA for this approach…