Surendralal, S.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Impact of Water Coadsorption on the Electrode Potential of H–Pt(1 1 1)-Liquid Water Interfaces. Physical Review Letters 126 (16), 166802 (2021)
Surendralal, S.; Todorova, M.; Finnis, M. W.; Neugebauer, J.: First-Principles Approach to Model Electrochemical Reactions: Understanding the Fundamental Mechanisms behind Mg Corrosion. Physical Review Letters 120 (24), 246801 (2018)
Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.; Wippermann, S. M.; Deißenbeck, F.; Neugebauer, J.: Processes at solid/liquid interfaces – insights from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations with potential control. AMaSiS 2021 Online - Applied Mathematics and Simulation for Semiconductors and Electrochemical Systems, Berlin, Germany (2021)
Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.; Wippermann, S. M.; Deißenbeck, F.; Neugebauer, J.: Insights into processes at electrochemical solid/liquid interfaces from ab initio molecular dynamics simulations. ICTP-Workshop on “Physics and Chemistry of Solid/Liquid Interfaces for Energy Conversion and Storage”, Virtual Meeting, Trieste, Italy (2021)
Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.: Corrosion at the Quantum Level. Coffee with Max Planck, virtual seminar organized by the MPIE, Düsseldorf, Germany (2021)
Todorova, M.; Yoo, S.-H.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: Insights into the stability and reactivity of solid/liquid interfaces from ab initio calculations. 71st Annual Meeting of the International Society of Electrochemistry "Electrochemistry towards Excellence", virtual, Belgrade, Serbia (2020)
Todorova, M.; Yoo, S.-H.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: Predicting atomic structure and chemical reactions at solid-liquid interfaces by first principles. Operando surface science – Atomistic insights into electrified solid/liquid interfaces (708. WE-Heraeus-Seminar), Physikzentrum, Bad Honnef, Germany (2019)
Neugebauer, J.; Surendralal, S.; Todorova, M.: First-principles appraoch to model electrochemical reactions at solid-liquid interfaces. ACS 2019 Fall Meeting & Exhibition, San Diego, CA, USA (2019)
Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: Degradation processes at surfaces and interfaces. ISAM4: The fourth International Symposium on Atomistic and Multiscale Modeling of Mechanics and Multiphysics, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU), Erlangen, Germany (2019)
Todorova, M.; Surendralal, S.; Neugebauer, J.: Building an ab-initio potentiostat in a standard DFT code with periodic boundary conditions. ELRC2019 - IPAM reuniuon workshop, Lake Arrowhead, CA, USA (2019)
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…
Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) of steel is a great challenge in engineering applications. However, the HE mechanisms are not fully understood. Conventional studies of HE are mostly based on post mortem observations of the microstructure evolution and those results can be misleading due to intermediate H diffusion. Therefore, experiments with a…
The goal of this project is the investigation of interplay between the atomic-scale chemistry and the strain rate in affecting the deformation response of Zr-based BMGs. Of special interest are the shear transformation zone nucleation in the elastic regime and the shear band propagation in the plastic regime of BMGs.
Biological materials in nature have a lot to teach us when in comes to creating tough bio-inspired designs. This project aims to explore the unknown impact mitigation mechanisms of the muskox head (ovibus moschatus) at several length scales and use this gained knowledge to develop a novel mesoscale (10 µm to 1000 µm) metamaterial that can mimic the…
In this project we investigate the hydrogen distribution and desorption behavior in an electrochemically hydrogen-charged binary Ni-Nb model alloy. The aim is to study the role of the delta phase in hydrogen embrittlement of the Ni-base alloy 718.
Smaller is stronger” is well known in micromechanics, but the properties far from the quasi-static regime and the nominal temperatures remain unexplored. This research will bridge this gap on how materials behave under the extreme conditions of strain rate and temperature, to enhance fundamental understanding of their deformation mechanisms. The…
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) of iron by marine sulfate reducing bacteria (SRB) is studied electrochemically and surfaces of corroded samples have been investigated in a long-term project.
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.