Erbe, A.: Correspondence Regarding the Article “On the Nature of the Evanescent Wave” (Appl. Spectrosc. 2013. 67[2]: 126-130). How “total” is Total Reflection from Powdered Samples? Applied Spectroscopy 67 (6), pp. 699 - 701 (2013)
Jha, D. K.; Shameem, M.; Patel, A. B.; Kostka, A.; Schneider, P.; Erbe, A.; Deb, P.: Simple synthesis of superparamagnetic magnetite nanoparticles as highly efficient contrast agent. Materials Letters 95, pp. 186 - 189 (2013)
Koelsch, P.; Muglali, M. I.; Rohwerder, M.; Erbe, A.: Third-order effects in resonant sum-frequency-generation signals at electrified metal/liquid interfaces. Journal of the Optical Society of America B-Optical Physics 30 (1), pp. 219 - 223 (2013)
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)
Khan, T. R.; Vimalanandan, A.; Marlow, F.; Erbe, A.; Rohwerder, M.: Existence of a lower critical radius for incorporation of silica particles into zinc during electro-codeposition. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 4 (11), pp. 6221 - 6227 (2012)
Chen, Y.; Schneider, P.; Erbe, A.: Investigation of native oxide growth on zinc in different atmospheres by spectroscopic ellipsometry. Physica Status Solidi A-Applications and Materials Science 209, pp. 846 - 853 (2012)
Gogoi, M.; Deb, P.; Vasan, G.; Keil, P.; Kostka, A.; Erbe, A.: Direct monophasic replacement of fatty acid by DMSA on SPION surface. Applied Surface Science 258, pp. 9685 - 9691 (2012)
Vasan, G.; Erbe, A.: Incidence angle dependence of enhancement factor in attenuated total reflection surface enhanced infrared absorption spectroscopy studied by numerical solution of the vectorial Maxwell equations. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 14, pp. 14702 - 14709 (2012)
Reithmeier, M.; Erbe, A.: Application of thin-film interference coatings in infrared reflection spectroscopy of organic samples in contact with thin metal films. Applied Optics 50 (9), pp. C301 - C308 (2011)
Vasan, G.; Chen, Y.; Erbe, A.: Computation of surface-enhanced infrared absorption spectra of particles at a surface through the Finite Element Method. Journal of Physical Chemistry 115 (7), pp. 3025 - 3033 (2011)
Chen, Y.; Hassel, A. W.; Erbe, A.: Enhancement of the electrocatalytic activity of gold nanoparticles towards methanol oxidation. Electrocatalysis 2 (2), pp. 106 - 113 (2011)
Khan, T. R.; Erbe, A.; Auinger, M.; Marlow, F.; Rohwerder, M.: Electrodeposition of zinc-silica composite coatings: Challenges in incorporating functionalized silica particles into a zinc matrix. Science and Technology of Advanced Materials 12 (5), 055005 (2011)
Hamou, F. R.; Biedermann, P. U.; Erbe, A.; Rohwerder, M.: Numerical simulation of probing the electric double layer by scanning electrochemical potential microscopy. Electrochimica Acta 55 (18), pp. 5210 - 5222 (2010)
Reithmeier, M.; Erbe, A.: Dielectric interlayers increasing the transparency of metal films for mid-infrared attenuated total reflection spectroscopy. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 12, pp. 14798 - 14803 (2010)
Jevremović, I.; Chen, Y.-H.; Altin, A.; Erbe, A.: Mechanisms of Inhibitor Action: Passivation and Self-Healing. In: Corrosion Inhibitors in the Oil and Gas Industries, Vol. Part 2, (Chapter 15), pp. 359 - 382 (Eds. Saji, V. S.; Umoren, S. A.). Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, Germany (2020)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
We have studied a nanocrystalline AlCrCuFeNiZn high-entropy alloy synthesized by ball milling followed by hot compaction at 600°C for 15 min at 650 MPa. X-ray diffraction reveals that the mechanically alloyed powder consists of a solid-solution body-centered cubic (bcc) matrix containing 12 vol.% face-centered cubic (fcc) phase. After hot compaction, it consists of 60 vol.% bcc and 40 vol.% fcc. Composition analysis by atom probe tomography shows that the material is not a homogeneous fcc–bcc solid solution