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)
Keerthiga, G.; Singh, R. R. K.; Prasad, M. J. N. V.; Albinmousa, J.; Rohwerder, M.; Vijayshankar, D.: Understanding the corrosion behavior of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) coated ZK60 Mg alloy under dynamic m-SBF electrolyte flow conditions. Electrochimica Acta 536, 146812 (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)
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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.
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…