Dick, A.; Körmann, F.; Abbasi, A.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Towards an ab initio based understanding of deformation mechanisms in high-manganese Steels. 1st Int. Conf. on High Manganese Steels, Seoul, South Korea (2011)
Zhu, L.-F.; Friák, M.; Dick, A.; Udyansky, A.; Neugebauer, J.: First principles study of elastic properties of eutectic Ti-Fe alloys up to their mechanical stability limits. DPG Spring Meeting 2011, Dresden, Germany (2011)
Sandlöbes, S.; Friák, M.; Dick, A.; Zaefferer, S.; Pei, Z.; Neugebauer, J.; Raabe, D.: Combining ab initio calculations and high-resolution experiments to understand advanced Mg alloys. German-Korean workshop on the “Production and industrial applications of semi-finished Mg products”, Irsee, Germany (2011)
Dick, A.: Towards an ab initio based understanding of deformation mechanisms in high-manganese steels. International scientific seminar “Ab initio Description of Iron and Steel: Mechanical properties”, Ringberg, Germany (2010)
Körmann, F.; Dick, A.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Integrating finite temperature magnetism into ab initio free energy calculations. ICAMS Scientific Retreat, Akademie Biggesee, Attendorn, Germany (2010)
Friák, M.; Zhu, L.-F.; Dick, A.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: First-principles study of the Ti-Fe eutectic system. Seminar at Institute of Physics of Materials at Czech Academy of Sciences, Brno, Czech Republic (2010)
Dick, A.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab Initio Interfacial Austenite/Martensite Energies for Accurate Deformation Mechanism Maps in High-Mn Steels. Materials Science and Engineering 2010, Darmstadt, Germany (2010)
Hickel, T.; Körmann, F.; Dick, A.; Neugebauer, J.: The thermodynamics of Fe-based compounds derived from first principles. Materials Science and Engineering 2010, Darmstadt, Germany (2010)
Hickel, T.; Dick, A.; Körmann, F.; Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio Bestimmung thermodynamischer Eigenschaften des Legierungssystems Fe-Mn-C. Sitzung FA Computersimulation der DGM, Aachen, Germany (2010)
Udyansky, A.; von Pezold, J.; Dick, A.; Neugebauer, J.: Atomistic study of martensite stability in dilute Fe-based solid solutions. PTM 2010 (Solid-Solid Phase Transformations in Inorganic Materials), Avignon, France (2010)
Körmann, F.; Dick, A.; Hickel, T.; Neugebauer, J.: First principles concepts to determine the heat capacity of Fe-based alloys. Calphad XXXIX, Jeju Island, South Korea (2010)
Udyansky, A.; von Pezold, J.; Dick, A.; Neugebauer, J.: Impurity ordering in iron: An ab initio based multi-scale approach. GraCoS Workshop (Carbon and Nitrogen in Steels: Measurement, Phase Transformations and Mechanical Properties), Rouen, France (2010)
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.
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…