Jovičević-Klug, P.; Jovičević-Klug, M.; Tegg, L.; Hester, J. R.; Čapek, J.; Polatidis, E.; Cairney, J. M.; McCord, J.; Rohwerder, M.: Operando cryogenic processing effects on residual stress and magnetism of martensitic stainless steel for energy sector. Materials today advances 31, 100895 (2026)
Vijayshankar, D.; Rohwerder, M.: Revealing the Role of Oxygen Reduction Rate and Degradation Time on the Buried Metal/Coating Interphase Delamination Behavior. Corrosion 81 (12), pp. 1145 - 1150 (2025)
Wang, L.; Sam, H. C.; Ao, M.; Rohwerder, M.; Dong, C.: The effect of austenite phase transformation on hydrogen distribution and embrittlement mechanisms of heterogeneous martensite stainless steel manufactured by laser powder bed fusion. Corrosion Science 256, 113195 (2025)
Jovičević-Klug, M.; Brondin, C. A.; Caretta, A.; Bonnekoh, C.; Gossing, F.; Vogel, A.; Rieth, M.; McCord, J.; Rohwerder, M.; Jovičević-Klug, P.: Suppression of Cr nanoclusters and enrichments in Fe–Cr based alloys with cryogenic processing for future energy sector. Journal of Materials Research and Technology 36, pp. 9262 - 9273 (2025)
Khayatan, N.; Prabhakar, J. M.; Jalilian, E.; Madelat, N.; Terryn, H.; Rohwerder, M.: On the rate determining step of cathodic delamination of delamination-resistant organic coatings. Corrosion Science 239, 112396 (2024)
Azzam, W.; Subaihi, A.; Rohwerder, M.; Bashir, A.; Terfort, A.; Zharnikov, M.: Odd-even effects in aryl-substituted alkanethiolate SAMs: nonsymmetrical attachment of aryl unit and its impact on the SAM structure. Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics 26 (9), pp. 7563 - 7572 (2024)
Ravikumar, A.; Höche, D.; Feiler, C.; Lekka, M.; Salicio-Paz, A.; Rohwerder, M.; Prabhakar, J. M.; Zheludkevich, M.: Exploring the Effect of Microstructure and Surface Recombination on Hydrogen Effusion in Zn–Ni-Coated Martensitic Steels by Advanced Computational Modeling. Steel Research International 95 (2), 2300353 (2024)
Venkatachalam, D.; Govindaraj, Y.; Prabhakar, J. M.; Ganapathi, A.; Sakairi, M.; Rohwerder, M.; Neelakantan, L.: Smart release of turmeric as a potential corrosion inhibitor from a pH-responsive polymer encapsulated highly ordered mesoporous silica containers. Surfaces and Interfaces 45, 103883 (2024)
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…
For understanding the underlying hydrogen embrittlement mechanism in transformation-induced plasticity steels, the process of damage evolution in a model austenite/martensite dual-phase microstructure following hydrogenation was investigated through multi-scale electron channelling contrast imaging and in situ optical microscopy.
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.
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.
Hydrogen embrittlement affects high-strength ferrite/martensite dual-phase (DP) steels. The associated micromechanisms which lead to failure have not been fully clarified yet. Here we present a quantitative micromechanical analysis of the microstructural damage phenomena in a model DP steel in the presence of hydrogen.
We will investigate the electrothermomechanical response of individual metallic nanowires as a function of microstructural interfaces from the growth processes. This will be accomplished using in situ SEM 4-point probe-based electrical resistivity measurements and 2-point probe-based impedance measurements, as a function of mechanical strain and…
Hydrogen induced embrittlement of metals is one of the long standing unresolved problems in Materials Science. A hierarchical multiscale approach is used to investigate the underlying atomistic mechanisms.