Neugebauer, J.: Ab Initio Computation of Phonon-Phonon and Magnon-Phonon Interactions: Successes and Challenges. Workshop DyProSo, Freising, Germany (2015)
Neugebauer, J.: Design of structural materials by predictive ab initio thermodynamics: Challenges, applications and perspectives. Euromat Conference, Warsaw, Poland (2015)
Vatti, A. K.; Todorova, M.; Neugebauer, J.: Formation Energy of Halide ions (Cl/Br/I) in water from ab-initio Molecular Dyna. Psi-k 2015 Conference, San Sebastián, Spain (2015)
Neugebauer, J.: Quantum-mechanical approaches to address the structural and thermodynamic complexity of engineering materials. Swedish Chemical Society, Kalmar, Sweden (2015)
Neugebauer, J.: Understanding the fundamental mechanisms behind H embrittlement: An ab initio guided multiscale approach. Colloquium UCB Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada (2015)
Neugebauer, J.: Vacancies in fcc metals: Discovery of large non-Arrhenius effects. The 5th Sino-German Symposium Thermodynamics and Kinetics of Nano and Mesoscale Materials and Their Applications, Changchun, China (2015)
Neugebauer, J.: Ab initio thermodynamics: A novel route to design materials on the computer. Colloquium at Universität Marburg, Marburg, Germany (2015)
Neugebauer, J.: Understanding the fundamental mechanisms behind H embrittlement: An ab initio guided multiscale approach. International Workshop MoD-PMI , Marseille, France (2015)
Neugebauer, J.: Materials design based on predictive ab initio thermodynamics. Colloquium at Lawrence Livermore National Lab, Livermore, CA, USA (2015)
In this project we conduct together with Dr. Sandlöbes at RWTH Aachen and the department of Prof. Neugebauer ab initio calculations for designing new Mg – Li alloys. Ab initio calculations can accurately predict basic structural, mechanical, and functional properties using only the atomic composition as a basis.
Low dimensional electronic systems, featuring charge density waves and collective excitations, are highly interesting from a fundamental point of view. These systems support novel types of interfaces, such as phase boundaries between metals and charge density waves.
About 90% of all mechanical service failures are caused by fatigue. Avoiding fatigue failure requires addressing the wide knowledge gap regarding the micromechanical processes governing damage under cyclic loading, which may be fundamentally different from that under static loading. This is particularly true for deformation-induced martensitic…
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.
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.
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.