Schwan, M.; Naikade, M. K.; Raabe, D.; Ratke, L.: From hard to rubber-like: mechanical properties of resorcinol-formaldehyde aerogels. Journal of Materials Science 50 (16), pp. 5482 - 5493 (2015)
Naikade, M. K.: Testing of a new software tool for the determination of the amount of recrystallized and recovered volume fraction and its application to different annealed aluminum alloys. Master, RWTH Aachen, Aachen, Germany (2015)
International researcher team presents a novel microstructure design strategy for lean medium-manganese steels with optimized properties in the journal Science
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.
Within this project we investigate chemical fluctuations at the nanometre scale in polycrystalline Cu(In,Ga)Se2 and CuInS2 thin-flims used as absorber material in solar cells.
This project aims to develop a testing methodology for the nano-scale samples inside an SEM using a high-speed nanomechanical low-load sensor (nano-Newton load resolution) and high-speed dark-field differential phase contrast imaging-based scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) sensor.
The thorough, mechanism-based, quantitative understanding of dislocation-grain boundary interactions is a central aim of the Nano- and Micromechanics group of the MPIE [1-8]. For this purpose, we isolate a single defined grain boundary in micron-sized sample. Subsequently, we measure and compare the uniaxial compression properties with respect to…