Qin, Y.; Li, J.; Herbig, M.: Microstructural origin of the outstanding durability of the high nitrogen bearing steel X30CrMoN15-1. Materials Characterization 159, 110049 (2020)
Srikakulapu, K.; Qin, Y.; Sreekala, L.; Morsdorf, L.; Herbig, M.: On the decomposition resistance of carbonitride precipitates during high-pressure torsion in X30CrMoN15-1 bearing steel. High Nitrogen Steel conference, HNS 2021, online, Shanghai, China (2021)
Qin, Y.; Mayweg, D.; Tung, P.-Y.; Pippan, R.; Herbig, M.: Mechanism of cementite decomposition in 100Cr6 bearing steels during high pressure torsion. MSE Congress 2020, virtual, Sankt Augustin, Germany (2020)
Qin, Y.: Effect of post-heat treatment on the microstructure and mechanical properties of SLM-produced IN738LC. Master, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany (2017)
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.
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…